Section 87
Members, officers of Food Authority and Commissioner of Food Safety to be public servants.
The Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006
About this Act
An Act to consolidate the laws relating to food and to establish the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India for laying down science based standards for articles of food and to regulate their manufacture, storage, distribution, sale and import, to ensure availability of safe and wholesome food for human consumption and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
The Members, officers of the Food Authority and the Commissioners of Food Safety and their
officers shall be deemed, when acting or purporting to act in pursuance of any of the provisions of this
Act, to be public servants within the meaning section 21 of the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860).