Correct Answer - Option 4 : conducts business and responsible for ensuring compliance with the FSSA Act, Rules and Regulations.
As per terms defined in FSS Act, 2006, a "Food Business Operator" in relation to food business means a person by whom the business is carried on or owned and is responsible for ensuring the compliance of this Act, rules and regulations made thereunder.
Responsibilities of the food business operator
- Every food business operator shall ensure that the articles of food satisfy the requirements of this Act and the rules and regulations made thereunder at all stages of production, processing, import, distribution, and sale within the businesses under his control.
- Food business operators shall not employ any person who is suffering from infectious, contagious disease. (Option 1 is incorrect)
- No food business operator shall sell or offer for sale any article of food to any vendor unless he also gives a guarantee in writing in the form specified by regulations about the nature and quantity of such article to the vendor e.g. bill, cash memo, or invoice, etc.
- No food business operator shall himself or by any person on his behalf manufacture, store, sell or distribute any article of food-
(i) Which is unsafe
(ii) Which is misbranded or sub-standard or contains extraneous matter
(iii) For which a license is required, except in accordance with the conditions of the license.
(iv) Which is for the time being prohibited by the Food Authority or the Central Government or the State Government in the interest of public health.