FOOD SAFETY AND STANDARDS ACT, 2006 No. 34 OF 2006 [23rd August, 2006]
An Act to consolidate the laws relating to food and to establish the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India 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 and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
BE it enacted by Parliament in the Fifty-seventh Year of the Republic of India as follows:-
CHAPTER I
PRELIMINARY
1. Short title, extent and commencement
(1) This Act may be called the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006.
(2) It extends to the whole of India.
(3) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint, and different dates may be appointed for different provisions of this Act and any reference in any such provision to the commencement of this Act shall be construed as a reference to the coming into force of that provision.
2. Declaration as to expediency of control by the Union.
It is hereby declared that it is expedient in the public interest that the Union should take under its control the food industry.
