Food Quality Standards

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6 Food quality and standard

• Standards framed by FSSAI are prescribed under
Food Safety and Standards
• Food Product Standards and Food Additives
Regulation, 2011,
• Food Safety and Standards (Packaging and
Labelling) Regulation, 2011 and
• Food Safety and Standards
(Contaminants, Toxins, and Residues)
Regulations, 2011.
• The FSSAI has prescribed standards for following categories of food
products:
• Dairy products and analogues
• Fats, oils and fat emulsions
• Fruits and vegetable products
• Cereal and cereal products
• Meat and meat products
• Fish and fish products
• Sweets & confectionery
• Sweetening agents including honey
• Salt, spices, condiments and related products
• Beverages, (other than dairy and fruits & vegetables based)
• Other food product and ingredients
• Proprietary food
• Irradiation of food
AGMARK
• The word Agmark is derived from Agricultural
Marketing. The DMI ( Directorate of Marketing
and inspection) under the Department of
Agriculture and Co-operation in the Ministry
of Agriculture enforces the Agricultural
Products (Grading and Marketing) Act 1937.
Under this Act Grade standards are prescribed
for agricultural and allied commodities.
• Agmark grading means grading of an article in
accordance with grade/standards prescribed
under the provisions of the act. These are
known as AGMARK standards.
• Grading under the provision of this Act is

voluntary.
• Any person or body of persons desirous of
being authorized to grade and mark an article
under the provisions of the act shall apply to
the agricultural marketing advisor or any other
officer of the Central Government or State
Government authorized by Agricultural
Marketing Advisor.
• Manufacturers who comply with standard laid
down by DMI are allowed to use "AGMARK"
labels on their products
• The grade designation marks shall be applied
only to the articles mentioned in the
certificate of authorization during the validity
period. The quality of the product is
determined with reference to the size, variety,
weight, color, moisture, fat content and other
factors are taken in to account. It covers
quality assurances of unprocessed, semi
processed and processed agricultural
commodities. Blended edible vegetable oils
and fat spread are compulsorily required to
be certified under Agmark.
Salient features of Agmark standard
• (1) Quality standards for Agricultural commodities
are framed based on their intrinsic quality.
• (2) Food safety factors are being incorporated in
the standards to compete in world trade.
• (3) Standards are being harmonized with
international standards keeping in view the WTO
requirements.
• (4) Check is kept on the quality of certified
products through laboratories and offices spread
all over the country
• The grades incorporated are grades 1, 2, 3 and
4 or special, good, fair and ordinary.
• Agmark products are subjected to continuous
inspection. The certificate of “Authorization” is
granted only to those in the trade having
adequate experience and standing in the
market.
• Products available under AGMARK are :
• Pulses, wheat products, vegetable oils, ground
spices, whole spices, milk products, honey,
compounded asafetida, rice, tapioca sago,
seedless tamarind and gram flour; grading of
these commodities is voluntary.
• On the other hand grading of commodities like
tobacco, walnut, spices, basmati rice, essential
oils, onion, potatoes are meant for export is
compulsory under AGMARK.
FRUIT PRODUCTS ORDER (FPO) 1955
• Constituted under Essential Commodities Act

it is mandatory for all manufacturers of Fruit
and Vegetable Products to obtain a licence
under FPO. The act is implemented by the
Food Safety and Standards Authority of India
through Directorate of Fruit & Veg. Processing
at its Regional Offices.
• The Fruit Product Order (FPO) lays down statutory
minimum standards in respect of the quality of various
fruits and vegetable products and processing facilities
at manufacture, storage and sale.
• The Agricultural marketing Advisor is authorized by
law to issue a license for manufacturing fruits and
vegetable products, after due inspection of the factory
for hygiene, sanitation and quality of formulation.
• Periodic inspection by Government inspectors in
establishments is carried out to ensure conformity of
standards by processors.
• Licenser is empowered to put the FPO specification
mark on the product.
• The products covered in FPO include:
• Fruit juice, pulp concentrate, squashes, cordials,
crush, fruit syrups, nectar, aerated water containing
fruit juice or pulp and read to serve beverages etc.
• Depending on their quality the products are grade in
four categories as ordinary, fair, good and special.
• The FPO specifications cover list of constituents, a
method of presentation permissible colors in the
preparation and also minimum quality requirement
of the product. An expert committee known as the
Central Food Product Advisory Committee deals
with all matters relating to the FPO.
• FPO also lays down specific requirements in
regard to the following:
• Containers and labeling requirement
• Limits of poisonous metals in fruit products
• List of permissible harmless food colors
• Limits for permitted preservatives in fruit
products
• Other permitted additives
• INDIA ORGANIC is a certification mark for organically
farmed food products manufactured in India.
The certification mark certifies that an organic
food product conforms to the National Standards for
Organic Products established in 2000.
• Those standards ensures that the product or the raw
materials used in the product were grown through organic
farming, without the use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides,
or induced hormones. The certification is issued by testing
centres accredited by the Agricultural and Processed Food
Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) under
the National Program for Organic Production of
the Government of India.
• Even though the standards are in effect since
2000, the certification scheme and hence the
certification mark came into existence in 2002.
• The Food Safety and Standards Authority of
India (FSSAI) had issued regulations that
required food companies selling organic
produce to get certified with one of the two
authorities — National Programme for
Organic Production (NPOP) or the
Participatory Guarantee System for India
(PGS-India).
• The PGS-India Logos:
• PGS-India Green (organic products obtained
from the agriculture fields which are under
process of organic conversion)
• PGS-India Organic (organic products obtained
from agriculture fields which are completely
converted into organic farming) before buying
organic products.
• THE BUREAU OF INDIAN STANDARDS (BIS) is
the national Standards Body of India working
under the aegis of Ministry of Consumer
Affairs, Food & Public istribution, Government
of India. It is established by the Bureau of
Indian Standards Act, 1986 which came into
effect on 23rd December 1986. The
organisation was formerly the Indian
Standards Institution (ISI)
Product Certification
• For Indian manufacturers
• Product Certifications are to be obtained voluntarily. For, some of
the products like Milk powder, Drinking Water, LPG Cylinders,
etc., certification is mandatory. Because these products are
concerned with health and safety.
For foreign manufacturers

• All foreign manufacturers of products who intend to export to
India are required to obtain a BIS product certification license..

For Indian importers
• Indian importers who intend to get Certification Mark may apply
for the license. However, the assessment visit is paid to the
original product manufacturer
•
• GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATION (GI) is a name or
sign used on certain products which corresponds
to a specific geographical location or origin (e.g.
a town, region, or country). The GI tag ensures
that none other than those registered as
authorized users (or at least those residing inside
the geographic territory) are allowed to use the
popular product name. Darjeeling tea became
the first GI tagged product in India, in 2004-05.

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• Grading under the provision of this Act is

• Constituted under Essential Commodities Act

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