FSSAI : Food Safety Hand Book

Humans must have food to survive. In the India and other countries the system of obtaining food was highly localized before the twentieth century. With the development of new technologies and improved transportation food production and distribution systems became national in scope and more complex. The current food system stretches from producers to consumers and is international in scope. Ensuring its quantity nutritional adequacy and safety has become more complicated and requires major government and private-sector efforts. The current food safety system has evolved piecemeal over almost a century in response to changes in the food supply and to changes in the biophysical and social environments in which the system operates. The present system is not the product of planning and it is often not equipped to anticipate changes. But the situation is not just haphazard; changes in risks have made the system outmoded. The role and organization of government entities have remained largely unchanged and the food