{"id":436628,"date":"2026-09-24T20:48:48","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T15:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/?p=436628"},"modified":"2026-09-24T20:48:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T15:03:49","slug":"health-ministry-seeks-suggestions-to-amend-food-hygiene-and-quality-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2026\/09\/24\/436628.html","title":{"rendered":"Health Ministry seeks suggestions to amend Food Hygiene and Quality Act"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Kathmandu:<\/strong> The Ministry of Health and Food Safety has made a draft bill to amend the &#8216;Food Hygiene and Quality Act, 2081&#8217;, seeking public inputs to it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/Health-Minister-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-436629\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/Health-Minister-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/Health-Minister-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/Health-Minister-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/Health-Minister.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Section 6 of the Legislation Act, 2081 BS, the Ministry has released the draft bill and sought suggestions from the general public, concerned agencies and experts as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The draft bill has been prepared in a bid to amend and clarify some provisions of the &#8216;Food Hygiene and Quality Act, 2081&#8217; so that it would be helpful to enforce the &#8216;Division of Work Regulations, 2083&#8217; effectively. Immediate fine has been proposed to the seller if any food is found unhygienic, low-quality and inedible during inspection and monitoring. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The provision was proposed with the aim of making the legal system on food hygiene and quality more effective and enforceable, the Ministry added. The Ministry has given the time for suggestion till September 30 to furnish opinion or suggestion to the draft bill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The suggestions can be provided via email. The draft bill will be further revised by incorporating the suggestions as per need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>RSS<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu: The Ministry of Health and Food Safety has made a draft bill to amend the &#8216;Food Hygiene and Quality Act, 2081&#8217;, seeking public inputs to it. According to Section 6 of the Legislation Act, 2081 BS, the Ministry has released the draft bill and sought suggestions from the general public, concerned agencies and experts &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":436629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,4,2],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-436628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-en-cover","category-english","category-en-news","category-top-stories-main"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436628"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436630,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436628\/revisions\/436630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436628"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=436628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}