Compliance and Enforcement Actions
The food safety department's officials conduct random sampling, surveillance, monitoring, and inspections of food products in order to enforce these regulations. Food Safety Compliance via Regular Inspections and Sampling (FoSCoRIS) is established as a large-scale IT infrastructure. Standard compliance matrices would be used during inspections to guarantee uniformity in the methodology of inspections throughout the nation.
Food Safety Officers (FSOs) are allowed to conduct real-time inspections using the web-based software FoSCoRIS. It helps in instant geotagging, time stamping, real-time data collection, and many levels of verification when used with handheld devices like tablets and cell phones.
All relevant parties, including food companies, food safety officers (FSOs), designated officers (DOs), and state food safety commissioners (FSCs), are brought together by the system through a national IT platform to ensure that process integrity is upheld and that sampling and inspections are carried out in an efficient manner. Apart from establishing a network of authorities and multiple online portals FSSAI also implements stringent penalties.