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FSSAI 10 Question and Answers
FSSAI 10 Question and Answers
a. Grain
b. Inorganic
c. Organic
d. Vegetarian
Answer Explanation
ANSWER: Organic
Explanation:
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has come out with draft regulations for organic food products to
ensure the authenticity of organic foods.
FSSAI’s guidelines have been prepared in view of rising demand for organic food products.
Organic foods will have to comply with the government’s provisions under the National Programme for Organic Production
(NPOP) or the Participatory Guarantee System for India (PGS-India) run by the Agriculture Ministry or any other standards
notified by FSSAI. The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has invited comments from the public
regarding the provisions of the draft regulations. At present, the consumers do not have any method to check the authenticity
of the organic food products due to the absence of a regulatory framework.Organic foods are defined as those food products
that are produced in accordance with specified standards for organic production. Organic farm produce means the product
obtained from organic agriculture, while organic food means food products that have been produced in accordance with
specified standards for organic production. Other features FSSAI’s regulation mandates that labelling of organic foods should
provide full and accurate information regarding the organic status of the organic foods. Organic food products must carry a
certification mark or a quality assurance mark provided by the notified certification bodies. FSSAI’s regulations have
exempted organic food marketed by the original producer or producer organisation through a direct sale from verification
compliance. However, this exemption will not be applicable to processed organic products.
a. Newspaper
b. Plastic
c. Polythene
d. None of the above
Answer Explanation
ANSWER: Newspaper
Explanation:
Food Safety and Standards Authority of India has issued an advisory saying it has decided to ban the use of newspapers for
wrapping and packing food items, a common practice by small corner shops and street vendors.In its advisory, FSSAI has
asked commissioners of food safety of all states and UTs to take necessary steps to restrict the use of newspapers for packing,
serving and storing of food items.Newspaper ink can contaminate food items leading to serious health concerns.Cancer
related complications can result from the use of newspaper as a food packaging material.This is the first time FSSAI has
brought about a rule with regard to packaging food materials. So far, it has focused on setting standards for packaged food.
Food Retail in India
10 million street vendors in 2014(estimate by Union Housing Ministry).
BCG estimates there are 12 million kirana stores as per a 2014-2015 estimate.
India has the second largest food retail industry in the world.
97% of the Indian food retail industry is unorganised.
7) Regulator FSSAI has joined hands with which organisation to check misleading ads in
the foods and beverages sector?
a. ASCI
b. ASDI
c. ASOI
d. ASBI
Answer Explanation
ANSWER: ASCI
Explanation:
Regulatory authority FSSAI has partnered ASCI to check misleading ads in the food and beverages sector.
ASCI will monitor ads across numerous media and the council has been provided suo moto monitoring mandate by FSSAI to
process complaints against misleading food and beverages adsAgreement also requires ASCI to report FSSAI’s non compliance of
ASCI’s decisions for further action as per the FSSAI act.The MoU was signed between FSSAI CEO Pawan Agarwal and ASCI
chairman Benoy Roychoudhury FSSAI is an agency of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, GoI
8) Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Shri JP Nadda has launched which
project for the safety standards of food on the streets?
10) Who has been given additional charge as the CEO of FSSAI?
a. Shashank Bahugana
b. Ashish Bahugana
c. Sunil Bakshi
d. Bimal Kumar Dubey
Answer Explanation
ANSWER: Ashish Bahugana
Explanation:
Chairman of Food Safety and Standards Authority of India was on 4th October 2015 given additional charge as
CEO of FSSAI. This was following the shift of Y. S. Malik to Niti Aayog as an additional secretary. Bahugana
is a retired 1978 batch Rajasthan cadre IAS officer and former Agriculture Secretary. He is been the chairman
of FSSAI since July 2015. FSSAI was instituted in August 2011 and it promotes public health through
supervision and regulation of food safety. It has an HQ in Delhi.