Pawan Kumar Agarwal

Pawan Kumar Agarwal was given three months extension as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI). According to a PTI report: The tenure of Agarwal, a 1985-batch IAS officer of West Bengal cadre,...

Pawan Kumar Agarwal, CEO, Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), on Tuesday said that FSSAI Licence was mandatory for the sales of food product to ensure the health and safety of the consumers. According to a UNI report:...

Food safety regulator FSSAI has warned that hotels and restaurants operating without its licence will be sealed and closed if they fail to take permits in the next 3 months. According to a PTI report: The rule for licence also...

Regulator FSSAI said it will come up with new regulations for food labelling and packaging as well as strengthen infrastructure to verify claims made by food companies. According to a PTI report: Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI)...

Food Safety and Standards Authority (FSSAI) is revising food labelling norms and examining global models, its CEO Pawan Kumar Agarwal said. "Our labelling provisions are currently under revision. We are looking at Codex norms. We are going beyond that to...

Food regulator FSSAI is collecting samples of milk and honey sold in the market to check quality of these two food items after it received consumer complaints, its CEO Pawan Kumar Agarwal said. According to PTI report: The Food Safety...

The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) said it is in the process of setting up a food safety standards review panel to identify gaps in the existing standards for safe and nutritious food against international standards. "FSSAI...

Food regulator FSSAI will soon notify a new standards for food supplements as part of its efforts to ensure safe and nutritious food to the people. According to a PTI report: Last year, the Food Safety and Standards Authority of...

The Government will be spending Rs 490 crore in the next two-three years on upgrading and setting up new food testing laboratories (FTLs) across the country, an official said. Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) CEO Pawan Kumar...

Food safety regulator FSSAI, which is coming out with a draft regulation for standards on food fortification, advocated adoption of fortified food in Government schemes. Addressing the media, FSSAI CEO Pawan Kumar Agarwal said the draft Food Safety and Standards...