law: The Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 
  5. Composition of
  
  Food Authority and qualifications for appointment of its Chairperson and other
  
  Members. - 
  1.     
  
    The
  
  Food Authority shall consist of a Chairperson and the following twenty-two
  
  members out of which one-third shall be women, namely:-
  a.      seven Members, not
  
  below the rank of a Joint Secretary to the Government of India, to be appointed
  
  by the Central Government, to respectively represent the Ministries or
  
  Departments of the Central Government dealing with- 
                       
  
   i.        
  
    Agriculture,
                      
  
  
  
   ii.        
  
    Commerce,
                     
  
   iii.        
  
    Consumer
  
  Affairs,
                     
  
   iv.        
  
    Food
  
  Processing,
                      
  
   v.        
  
    Health,
  
  
                     
  
   vi.        
  
    Legislative
  
  Affairs,
                    
  
   vii.        
  
    Small
  
  Scale Industries, who shall be Members ex officio;
  a.    
  
  
  b.     two representatives
  
  from food industry of which one shall be from small scale industries;
  c.      two representatives
  
  from consumer organisations;
  d.     three eminent food
  
  technologists or scientists;
  e.      five members to be
  
  appointed by rotation every three years, one each in seriatim from the Zones as
  
  specified in the First Schedule to represent the States and the Union
  
  territories;
  f.      two persons to
  
  represent farmers' organisations;
  g.     one person to
  
  represent retailers' organisations.
  1.     
  
  
  
  
  2.     
  
    The
  
  Chairperson and other Members of the Food Authority shall be appointed in such
  
  a manner so as to secure the highest standards of competence, broad range of
  
  relevant expertise, and shall represent, the broadest possible geographic
  
  distribution within the country.
  3.     
  
    The
  
  Chairperson shall be appointed by the Central Government from amongst the
  
  persons of eminence in the field of food science or from amongst the persons
  
  from the administration who have been associated with the subject and is either
  
  holding or has held the position of not below the rank of Secretary to the
  
  Government of India.
  4.     
  
    The
  
  Chairperson and the Members other than ex officio Members of the Food Authority
  
  shall be appointed by the Central Government on the recommendations of the
  
  Selection Committee.(5) The Chairperson or Members other than ex officio
  
  Members of the Food Authority shall not hold any other office.