FSSAI CEO calls for stronger food-safety standards to build trust in Indian retail

FSSAI CEO Rajit Punhani urged food retailers to strengthen safety standards, improve system transparency and adopt innovation-led compliance, positioning food safety as a consumer-trust and sector-modernisation priority.

— Filed Wed, 29 Jul, 2026, 21:18 IST · Source ET Retail · Updated

ET Retail’s food retail topic page highlights FSSAI CEO Rajit Punhani’s call for stronger safety standards, transparent systems and innovation-led compliance to build consumer trust and reshape India’s food retail sector.

Why this matters

FSSAI’s call for stronger safety standards follows a parliamentary panel’s push for FSSAI to notify front-of-pack labelling rules, extending scrutiny from consumer information to retailer compliance and transparency.

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