Role of food business operators in food safety

Abstract Food business operators (FBO) as per FSSA 2006 have been defined as any undertaking, whether private or public, for profit or not, carrying out any of the activities related to any stage of manufacture, processing, packaging, storage, transportation, distribution of food, imports and including food services, sale of food, or food ingredients. They have a multitude of roles and responsibilities toward achieving food safety in their business. At the same time they face certain challenges too. This chapter briefly describes their duties as given in the Act along with certain roadblocks faced by them during implementation.