date:Aug 23, 2016
.8 crore food business operators, the law has managed to cover only about 45,00000 (25 per cent) in the decade of its operation. This means it would take more than a decade more to cover the currently existing operators.
Insiders say Indias food regulator is suffering from severe shortage of trained officers with the entire country making do with just about 5000 food safety officers when food business operators are in crores.
An officer of the FSSAI says: The estimate normally is that 4 per ce