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AgroPolicy, Dairy, India

The surveillance survey will cover around 766 districts across the country and over 10,000 samples will be collected during the exercise

The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has initiated a nationwide surveillance study on milk and milk products this month, in a bid to curb adulteration of such items, said an official of the country’s apex food regulator.

Satyen K Panda Advisor (Quality Assurance) FSSAI said, “The exercise will continue till October, and the regulator is expected to submit its report to the health ministry by December. The surveillance survey will cover around 766 districts across the country and over 10,000 samples will be collected during the exercise. Two agencies have been engaged for the purpose.”

Panda further added, “Quality Council of India, an autonomous body under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry and the National Dairy Development Board will conduct the survey for FSSAI. The scope for the survey includes milk, khoya, paneer, ghee, butter, curd and ice cream. The test parameters are adulterants, normal quality and compositional parameters, contaminants, antibiotic residues and microbiological indicators.

The surveillance survey will cover around 766

AgroPolicy, Dairy, India, Supply Chain, Sustainability, Trade

States that a decision will be taken after watching the demand-supply position later in the summer

The central government clarified that no final decision has been taken on the import of milk products such as ghee and butter and that if at all such a decision is taken, imports would be routed only through the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB), which would ensure that the market is not distorted and the interests of dairy farmers are protected.

The government cleared this after former Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar said the Centre’s decision to import milk products will be unacceptable as it directly affects the income of the domestic milk producers and impedes the revival of the dairy sector from the covid-19 pandemic.

Purushottam Rupala, Minister of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries stated that only states that a decision will be taken after watching the demand-supply position later in the summer, which inter alia means that no final decision has been taken in this regard.

States that a decision will be taken