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FSSAI seeks recall of food item if lab report finds it unsafe
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Friday, 19 July, 2024, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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Ashwani Maindola, New Delhi
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The FSSAI has written to Commissioners of Food Safety asking them to initiate recall of food item, if lab analysis reports find it unsafe.
Under the process, food item in question shall be prohibited for sale immediately after such primary lab report.
"If the food sample lifted by CFSO/FSO is found unsafe in the report of Primary Food Laboratory according to the provisions of the FSS Act, 2006, the DO/CLA shall exercise the power under Section 36(3)(b) of the FSS Act, 2006, to direct FBOs to prohibit the sale of unsafe food products read with Section 18(1)(g) of the FSS Act, 2006," reads FSSAI letter.
This action shall be followed by recall of the unsafe food after implementing prohibition of sale.
According to FSSAI, the food is to be recalled under the conditions wherein: a). If the FBO prefers an appeal against the report of Primary Lab and the report of the Food Analyst of the Referral Laboratory declares the food unsafe.
And b) If the FBO does not prefer an appeal within the stipulated time period.
Also, Designated Officers/Central Licensing Authority were asked to recommend to the Chief Executive Officer, FSSAI, or the Commissioner of Food Safety of the State, as per jurisdiction, to exercise the powers under FSS Act, to direct the FBO to immediately recall the implicated food product.
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