Mr. Yudhvir Singh Malik has been appointed as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India. Mr. Malik is a 1983 batch officer of the Haryana Cadre and is presently serving as Additional Chief Secretary in the Haryana Government. His appointment has been confirmed by a senior official of the Health Ministry.
The present CEO Mr. DK Samantaray is likely to give over charge to Mr. Y. S. Malik after the Assembly elections in Haryana. Mr. YS Malik had been appointed in August and he would be the third CEO of FSSAI in the past two years. The biggest task for Mr. Malik would be to see that the licensing and registration of food business operators (FBOs) process gets completed at the earliest. The mammoth process has been going on for the past two years and has not yet seen completion.
FSSAI is a statutory body that works under the aegis of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and has been created to lay down science based standards for articles of food and to regulate their manufacture, storage, distribution, sale and import to ensure availability of safe and wholesome food for human consumption. FSSAI was established under the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006. It handles all matters pertaining to food related issues in all ministries and departments of the government. FSSAI supervises food safety and promotes public health through its regulations.
Padma Nair says
Dear Mr Yudhvir Singh
If you had involved the gurus in Food Technology or Food Safety, you would not have been in this position. There is no shortage of experts in our country . Why did you not go to CFTRI Mysore first? Do you still think the labs which gave you the results were genuine? Right from day one industry experts knew that there was something wrong in FSSAI findings. In Food industry or Food Safety terminology please try to clarify from experts what does NO ADDED MSG mean? The other thing you need to realize is how complicated and sensitive heavy metals testing is. If you thought your lab results were genuine you are mistaken badly. Now you come with the lame excuse the Goa factory makes Maggi for export. You have totally misled the Indian public. Not just that you have literally destroyed a brand due to your ignorance..