FSSAI favors ‘life imprisonment’ for food adulterating case
Wednesday - June 27, 2018 3:28 pm ,
Category : WTN SPECIAL
‘Severe punishment’ proposed in food adulterating
JUNE 27 (WTN) - The government is going to tighten up the people who are adulterating food items. For this, the government is going to make a new law. Food regulator FSSAI (Food Safety and Standard Authority of India) has recommended the provision for ‘life imprisonment’ and penalty of up to ten lakh rupee for adulteration in food items.
According to information received from the media, FSSAI has proposed this in its recommendations on the amendment to the ‘Food Safety and Standards Act of 2006’. In these recommendations, those who are involved in adulteration of food items are also given life imprisonment and fined up to ten lakh rupees. For your information, let you know that after an order of the Supreme Court, FSSAI has proposed strict punishment for preventing adulteration of food items.
According to the information, the FSSAI has issued a draft amendment to Food Safety and Standards Act. This law was passed in the year 2006, but its regulations were notified in 2011. Under the significant amendments, the FSSAI has proposed to include new streams for action against those who adulterating in the food items.
According to the FSSAI, "Any person who mixes any substance in food which is fatal for human consumption and can cause any kind of damage to the health of that person or death, the person is less may be punished for less than seven years imprisonment and this sentence can be extended to life imprisonment. Apart from this, the person can be fined with at least ten lakh rupees."
According to the information, the adulterator will be punished in that situation even if his adulterated food is not harmed by anybody. Explaining the reasons for the proposed amendment, the regulator said that this step is being taken for strong action against such people who compromise food items. In such a way the food becomes unsafe for consumption. Let you know that there is a provision for such a severe punishment for adulteration in the pending consumer protection bill in parliament.
JUNE 27 (WTN) - The government is going to tighten up the people who are adulterating food items. For this, the government is going to make a new law. Food regulator FSSAI (Food Safety and Standard Authority of India) has recommended the provision for ‘life imprisonment’ and penalty of up to ten lakh rupee for adulteration in food items.
According to information received from the media, FSSAI has proposed this in its recommendations on the amendment to the ‘Food Safety and Standards Act of 2006’. In these recommendations, those who are involved in adulteration of food items are also given life imprisonment and fined up to ten lakh rupees. For your information, let you know that after an order of the Supreme Court, FSSAI has proposed strict punishment for preventing adulteration of food items.
According to the information, the FSSAI has issued a draft amendment to Food Safety and Standards Act. This law was passed in the year 2006, but its regulations were notified in 2011. Under the significant amendments, the FSSAI has proposed to include new streams for action against those who adulterating in the food items.
According to the FSSAI, "Any person who mixes any substance in food which is fatal for human consumption and can cause any kind of damage to the health of that person or death, the person is less may be punished for less than seven years imprisonment and this sentence can be extended to life imprisonment. Apart from this, the person can be fined with at least ten lakh rupees."
According to the information, the adulterator will be punished in that situation even if his adulterated food is not harmed by anybody. Explaining the reasons for the proposed amendment, the regulator said that this step is being taken for strong action against such people who compromise food items. In such a way the food becomes unsafe for consumption. Let you know that there is a provision for such a severe punishment for adulteration in the pending consumer protection bill in parliament.
