FSSAI has increased its pan India presence and bring more ease to the FBOs and the organisation.FSSAI is eyeing high performance and trying to bring more and more system under its ambit. With the help of the Central government and the increased funding FSSAI is rapidly increasing its footprint now largely into the strategic places and locations rather than than the major cities.
FSSAI has decided to set up 6 new branch offices, 4 new import offices and 2 new food laboratories.
With this, FSSAI will have 4 regional offices in New Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata, 12 branch offices and 6 import offices.
In addition, it will have 4 national food laboratories at Kolkata, Ghaziabad (Delhi NCR), Mumbai JNPT and Chennai and two food laboratories at Sanauli and Raxaul on Indo-Nepal border.
FSSAI’s new branch offices will be in Bhopal, Chandigarh, Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Visakhapatnam and Hyderabad and the new import offices will be at Attari, Kandla, Raxaul and Krishnapatnam.
FSSAI plans to set up two new food laboratories at Mumbai JNPT and Chennai.
The above decision will help FSSAI to strengthen its inspection and enforcement activities and have better control of imported food. Location of new offices has been decided after taking into account the workload of food imports and central licensing at various places.
