What is the current state of the food safety Act in Bangladesh?
What is the food safety Act in Bangladesh?
BFSA was established under Section 5 of The Food Safety Act, 2013 of the People's Republic of
Bangladesh with the mandate of making "provisions for the establishment of an efficient and
effective authority and for regulating, through coordination, the activities relating to food
production, import, stock supply, marketing and sales, so as to ensure the rights toward access to
safe food through appropriate application of scientific process, upon repealing and enacting the
existing laws connected thereto."
Section 13(1) also states that the main duties and functions of BFSA shall be "to regulate and
monitor the activities related to manufacture, import, processing, storage, distribution and sale of
food so as to ensure access of safe food through exercise of appropriate of scientific methods, and
to coordinate the activities of all organizations concerned with food safety management." It is also
clear from Section 13(4) that BFSA shall make Regulations to carry out the purposes of Section
13 of the Act. Thus, it is clear that BFSA shall make all kinds of regulations that meet the objectives
of the Act and support organizations in updating and upgrading the existing standards.