The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India in its order dated 27th October 2020 has decided to constitute Food Safety Coordination Committee to take decisions for controlling and for managing food safety emergency situations based on the recommendation of food safety emergency response.
FSSAI has developed a framework of national food safety emergency response system which outlines multi-sectorial coordination, their roles, and responsibility and management actions during food safety emergency situation.
The Food Safety Coordination Committee shall monitor, evaluate and review the measures used that are fit to the situation and shall consider and make a decision when the situation has been controlled in order to increase or decrease the response level, including incident closure.
