Year, State and Indicator-wise Food Safety Index Scores

Since 2018-19, annual assessment of performance of states with respect to food safety is being undertaken. This dataset contains the overall score of states as per the assessment, score by parameter and weightage assigned for each parameter. Parameters across 5 major categories are considered. These are- Human Resources and Institutional Data, Compliance, Food Testing – Infrastructure and Surveillance, Training & Capacity Building and Consumer Empowerment. Since 2022-23, an additional category with 10% weightage has been included on improvement in the rankings of States/UTs based on the State Food Safety Index from the previous year. States have been segregated into three categories namely large states, small states and UTs in 2023-24 based on government's categorisation from previous years.