Different laws governing quality production of

livestock product on par international standard

Submitted By :-
ANAMIKA
(M.V.Sc. 1st Year)
OBJECTIVES:
To meet a country’s sanitary and phytosanitary requirements,
food must comply with the local laws and regulations to gain
market access.
These laws ensure the safety and suitability of food for
consumers.
In some countries food laws also govern food quality and
composition standards.
Factors On Which It
Depends:
• Whether a country adopts international norms developed by the
Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) of the Food and
Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations.
• WHO (World Health Organization) or a country may also has
its own suite of food regulations.
• Each country regulates food differently and has its own food
regulatory framework.
Food Laws Related To Livestock Product In India
• The FSS Act is a bucket for all the older laws, rules and regulations for
food safety.
• Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954
• Vegetable Oil Products (Control) Order, 1947
• Solvent Extracted Oil, De- Oiled Meal and Edible Flour (Control) Order,
1967
• Meat Food Products Order, 1973
• Edible Oils Packaging (Regulation) Order 1988
• Milk and Milk Products Order, 1992.
FOOD SAFETY AND STANDARDS AUTHORITY OF
INDIA (FSSAI)
• The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI)
has been established under Food Safety and Standards Act,
2006 which consolidates various acts & orders that have to
handled food related issues in various Ministries and
Departments.
• FSSAI has been created for laying down science based
standards for articles of food and to regulate their
manufacture, storage, distribution, sale and import to ensure
availability of safe and wholesome food for human
consumption.
Prevention Of Food Adulteration Act, 1954
(PFA)
• The act promulgated by parliament in 29 September 1954 to make
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provision for the prevention of adulteration of food.

• Broadly, the PFA act covers food standards, general procedure for
sampling, analysis of food, powers of authorised officers, nature of
penalties and other parameters related to food.
• It deals with parameters relating to food additives, preservative,
colouring matters, packing & labelling of foods, prohibition &
regulations of sales etc. The provisions of PFA Act and Rules are
implemented by State Government and local bodies as provided in the
rules.
 OBJECTIVES:
1. To protect the public from poisonous and harmful food.
2. To prevent the sale of substandard foods.
3. To protect the interests of the consumers by eliminating
fraudulent practices.

In every case where the milk or milk product is

packed Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954 is
repealed from 05.08.2011 by the Central Government as per
the Food Safety and Standards Act,2006.
MFPO (Meat Food Product Order, 1973)
• Meat is a highly perishable commodity and sanitary conditions and
utmost hygienic measures are necessary to safeguard the quality
of processed meat food products.
• In 1973, Government of India promulgated an Order to enforce strict
quality control on the production and processing of meat food
products under Essential Commodities Act 1955.
• The responsibility to enforce this order was entrusted to Directorate of
Marketing and Inspection, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural
Reconstruction.
Objectives:
• Maintenance of sanitary conditions in the slaughterhouses, ensuring
proper antemortem examination, post-mortem inspection of carcasses,
in-process inspection and final product checking.
 CATEGORIES:
• MFPO, 1973 initially categorises the meat food manufacturers
into the following three broad heads on the basis of source of
raw meat:
• Category A : Includes those manufacturers or licensees of meat
food products who possess their own slaughterhouse.
• Category B : Includes those manufacturers of meat food
products who purchase meat from approved slaughterhouse.
• Category C : Includes those manufacturers of meat food
products, who purchase raw meat from any other source.
 Milk And Milk Products Order (MMPO),
1992
 The government of India had promulgated the MMPO1992 on 9
June 1992 under the provision of essential commodities act,
1955.
 As per the provision of this order, any person/ dairy plant
handling more than 10,000 litres per day of milk or 500 MT of
milk solids per annum need to be registered with the registering
authority appointed by central Govt.
 Objectives of MMPO
To maintain and increase the supply of liquid milk or desired
quality in the interest of the general public and also for
regulating the production, processing and distribution of milk
and milk products.
It includes provisions like rules for production, hygienic
conditions, packing, labelling, marketing, penalty etc.
To provides emphasis on quality and Food safety aspects of
milk and milk products with a clear focus on the hygienic
production and processing of milk and milk products
manufactured in a dairy establishment.
Agricultural Produce (grading And
Marketing) Act, 1937 AGMARK
The Term AGMARK was coined by the joining the words ‘Ag’ tomean
agriculture and ‘mark’ for a certification mark.
AGMARK- The Act provides quality standards for grading, packing and
marking of agricultural and animal husbandry products including ghee and
butter.
AGMARK is a certification mark employed on agricultural product in India,
assuring that they conform to a set of standard approved by the directed of
marketing and inspection, an agency of the Govt. of India.
AGMARK Laboratories

• The central AGMARK laboratory (CAL) in Nagpur, there

are regional AGMARK LABORATORIES (RALS) in 11
nodal cities (Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Kanpur,
Kochi, Guntur, Amritsar, Jaipur, Rajkot and Bhopal)
Bureau Of Indian Standard (BIS)

• BIS is the national standard body of India working under

the aegis of ministry of consumer affairs, food and public
distribution, Govt. of India.
• The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), the National
Standards Body of India is a statutory organization under
the Bureau of Indian Standards Act, 1986.
 VISION
• The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), the National Standards
Body of India, resolves to be the leader in all matters
concerning Standardization, Certification and Quality. In
order to attain this, the Bureau would strive:
• To provide efficient timely service.
• To satisfy the customers needs for quality of goods and
services.
• To work and act in such a way that each task performed as
individuals or as a corporate entity, leads to excellence and
enhances the credibility and image of the Organization.
Objectives of BIS
• Harmonious development of standardization, marking
and quality certification
• To provide new thrust to standardization and quality
control
• To evolve a national strategy for according recognition
to standards and integrating them with growth and
development of production and exports
Export (Quality Control & Inspection) 1963

• (a) "export” means taking out of India to be a place outside India;

• (b) "Inspection" in relation to a commodity, means specifications
stipulated in the export contract generally by inspecting either the
whole batch or a selected sample or samples which purport to represent
the whole batch;
• (c) "quality control", means any activity having for its object the
determination of the quality of a commodity (whether during the
process of manufacture or production or subsequently) in order to
ascertain whether it satisfies the standard.
The Livestock Importation Act, 1898

• An Act to make better provision for the regulation of the importation of

livestock. Whereas it is expedient to make better provision for the regulation of
the importation of livestock which is liable to be affected by infectious or
contagious disorders.
In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,-
• (a) the expression" infectious or contagious disorders" includes tick- pest,
anthrax, glander, farcy, scabies and any other disease or disorder which may be
specified by the Central Government by notification in the Official Gazette.
• (b) " livestock" includes horses, camels, sheep and any other animal which may
be specified by the Central Government by notification in the Official Gazette.
• (c) " import" means the bringing or taking, by sea, land or air, into India.
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