Consultation on Draft Provisions in the Food Safety and Security Bill
MSE and SFA seek feedback on Food Safety and Security Bill, consolidating eight existing Acts to enhance food safety, promote shared responsibility, and strengthen supply resilience.
Last updated 18 December 2024
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Singapore Food Agency (SFA) and the Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment (MSE)
Consultation Period: 08 Aug 2024 - 29 Aug 2024
Status: Closed
Detailed Description
Aim
The Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment (MSE) and the Singapore Food Agency (SFA) will be introducing the Food Safety and Security Bill (FSSB). The FSSB will consolidate food-related legislation from eight existing Acts1 and introduce new powers to strengthen our food safety and security regime, to:
i. Enhance the food safety regime to better protect the public
ii. Facilitate joint responsibility for food safety between industry, consumers, and the Government
iii. Strengthen resilience against food supply disruptions.
2. MSE and SFA are seeking feedback from the food industry, as well as interested parties, on draft provisions in the FSSB. A series of public consultations are in progress, based on the following topics in the FSSB:
• Defined food and pre-market approval
• Provision of non-packaged drinking water
• Food businesses
• Import, export and transhipment
• Agri-food production inputs (animal feed and plant pesticides)
• Strengthening resilience of food supply
3. This consultation is the last of a series of public consultations and consists of four segments. Stakeholders may refer to the relevant segments, as follow:
Segments
Segment | Title | Relevant stakeholders |
|---|---|---|
A | Food businesses | • Licensable food business (retail and non-retail) and farms. • Non-licensable food businesses. |
B | Import, export and transhipment | • Food traders. • Importers of prepacked food additive preparations, regulated food contact articles and animal feed. |
C | Agri-food production inputs | • Producers of animal feed • Plant pesticide registrants • Certified pesticide operators • Businesses involved in primary production activities (rearing of animals and cultivation of plants) |
D | Strengthening resilience of food supply | • Persons closely connected with or in agri-food supply chain (involved in farm to fork supply chain) |
4. Please refer to the full consultation paper with the attachment titled Consultation Paper. The draft Bill can be found in Annex I.
5. We welcome feedback on how we can work together to ensure a resilient supply of safe food for Singapore. Please submit your feedback through the links below or submit your responses to the respective email addresses using the templates found in the Annexes by 29 August 2024.
Templates
Segment | Link to feedback form | Template | Email address |
|---|---|---|---|
Animal feed: https://go.gov.sg/fssb-reach-part11-animalfeed Plant pesticide: | |||
1 These are: (i) Animals and Birds Act (ABA), (ii) Control of Plants Act (COPA), (iii) Environmental Public Health Act (EPHA), (iv) Feeding Stuffs Act (FSA), (v) Fisheries Act (FA), (vi) Sale of Food Act (SOFA), (vii) Wholesome Meat and Fish Act (WMFA), and (viii) Price Control Act.
2. FSSB REACH - Segment A [PDF, 255 KB]
3. FSSB REACH - Segment B [PDF, 215 KB]
4. FSSB REACH - Segment C [PDF, 191 KB]
5. FSSB REACH - Segment D [PDF, 125 KB]
6. FSSB REACH - Annex I (draft text) v2 [PDF, 3,271 KB]
7. FSSB REACH - Annex II [PDF, 132 KB]
8. FSSB REACH - Annex III [PDF, 122 KB]