Food Adulteration Act & Drugs and Cosmetic Act

1. Prevention of Food
Adulteration Act
&
Drugs and Cosmetic
Act
By:-
Deveshwar P. Dwivedi

2. Prevention of Food
Adulteration Act:-
Prevention of Food Adulteration Act,1954 :
PFA act was enacted by Indian parliament
in 1954. Adulteration of food and medicine
can be serious threat to human life.
Antisocial elements responsible for food
adulteration but the public health is at risk
by
deceiving and using fraudulentparticles like
substitutions, obstruction, concealing the
qual. ity, changing the labels. Selling
decomposed food mixing toxic substances.
PFA act was amended in 1964,1976 and
lasting in 1986, 2001 , 2002 to make act
more stringent.
Objectives :
(i) Ensuring pure and wholesome food to
consumers.
(ii) To protect consumers from fraudulent
and deceptive malpractices.
(iii) To maintain quality of food stuff and
edible substances.
(iv) To prevent adulteration of food stum

3. A minimum imprisonment of six month
with a minimum fine of Rss 10,000 is
envisaged during the act.
With the amendment in 1986, the
consumer and voluntary organization have
been empowered under act to take samples
of food.
Rules :
Rules all framed which are revised from
time to time by an expert body called the
"Central Committee for Food Standards"
which is constituted by central government
under provisions of act.
Training is being an importantcomponent
of programme for prevention of food
adulteration. Ihe Directorate General of
Health Services organizes service training
programme for different functionary
responsible for implementation of PFA
act.

4. Advantages :
 Helps in maintaining quality of food
stuff .
 Helps to provide punishment to the
people and organization responsible for
adulteration.
 Helps to provide, special lights to
consumer and voluntary organisation so
that, they can play an effective role.
 Checking the quality of imported
food stuff.
 Establishing public analysis,
consumer tests and food testing labs and
training their workers.
Role of community health
nurse :
 Community health nurse should
make people aware about the food
adulteration act.

5.  She should teach community people
about the methods of food adulteration.
 She should inform the people about
the preventive measures about food
adulteration.
 She should inform the community
people about punish• ment and fine
regarding food adulteration.
Drugs and Cosmetic
Act,1945 :
The Drugs and Cosmetic Act, 1945 is
effective for
standardization of medicines and cosmetics,
control of quality. give recognization to new
medicines and such activities. Under this the
central drug standardization control
organization (CD SCO) is formed.
The function of central drug
standardization control organization
are following :

6. 1) Implementation of medicine laws and
policies.
2) Keeping control over the quality of
imported medicines.
3) Establishing better co-ordination in the
of drug control officers.
4) Recognization to new drugs made in the
country.
5) Establishing standards Of medicines
and instruments.
6) Regulations of human blood
transfusion, parental drugs.
7) Providing license for the preparation
and sale of serum and vaccines.
Under the drug and cosmetic act, functioning
of drug laboratory, drug advisory committee,
central license recommendation authority,
Indian pharmacop technical advisory board
etc. included.
Tris act is amended several times including
the amendment of 1996. In 2000-2001 also.
seven notifications were published to know
the views of the public on proposed
amendments