Event of FSSAI, It is necessary to write the expiry date of sweets.

The rules applicable from 2020 till now have been an event of FSSAI only.

The number of event of FSSAI is increasing every year, be it the It Right campaign or FoSTac, but till now FSSAI has not taken any concrete steps to make these campaigns successful. Apart from just news in newspapers and events on social media, these campaigns or schemes have been a flop show on the ground. But the government is given social media references and paper data for the success of the event.

In 2020, guidelines were implemented by FSSAI regarding expiry date on packaged and loose sweets. Which have not been implemented yet. In most of the states, food inspectors are taking advantage of this in the form of bribes and monthly allowances. Which continues in every festival season.

The general public is not aware of any such scheme or guidelines. If any guidelines have been given by FSSAI keeping in mind the consumer interests, then spreading its information to the public also comes under the responsibility of FSSAI. Which is not maintained by FSSAI. And it is published in the newspaper only as a news during the festive season.

In such a situation, not only the customers but also the small sweet traders are troubled. If any guideline or law is made then every businessman has to receive its information through government and information mediums. And small traders should be informed through public programs and other means.

Only during the festive season, such laws are imposed and only extortion is done from small sweet traders. No circular is issued to create any kind of public awareness or even among traders to follow the rules and laws. In such a situation, small sweet producers depend only on their turn and their business.

In such a situation, FSSAI’s event seems to be just a gimmick and a mere fraud. FSSAI itself does not have enough food inspectors to enforce the guidelines issued by FSSAI in every district. In such a situation, the only solution is to extort money. And the general public and businessmen feel cheated. Even before this, a multidimensional scheme like FoSTac has proved to be an event of FSSAI.

Under FoSTac, separate food safety training was to be conducted for all traders associated with the food industry. But gradually, the regulation and arbitrariness of FoSTac has been seen on the training partners of FoSTac. More than 60 percent of all the training partners associated so far have now been removed from FoSTac.

The main reason for which has been FSSAI’s lax attitude towards making FoSTac certification mandatory. FoSTac was introduced as a mandatory training in the beginning itself. Which makes the need for FoSTac certificate necessary.

Towards which training food traders should be inclined. But since its inception till now it has not been made mandatory training. Nor has it been made mandatory for food license. In such a situation, doubt arises on the working system of FSSAI. And FSSAI event love or nostalgia can be felt. Recently in local newspapers it has been made mandatory to write best before or expiry date on open sweet boxes.

In which different shelf lives of different sweets have been fixed. But the shelf life of a sweet has been implemented without any criteria. This includes sweets that spoil within a day to sweets that spoil for a month. But many products like Namkeen Bhujia, Kachori, Samosa, and Papad have been kept away from this category. And there is no mention of preservatives in their packing, which is against the rules of FSSAI. In such a situation, FSSAI rules are applicable only on small traders making sweets.

Which is like eliminating small traders on a large scale and merely promoting bribery. This should also be considered as just an event of FSSAI every festive season. All the campaigns and guidelines of FSSAI till now have remained mere events.

They do not seem to have any basis on ground. In big corporates, only FSSAI officials can be seen relaxing the rules of FSSAI. The same game of arresting local level traders and industries by the local Food Inspector has been going on.