Abstract: Food safety is the most burning issue for current trade scenario, recently global food safety issues like presence of Ethylene oxide in spices and other food items is being considered as major food safety concern for food exports from India. Earlier, there was a food safety issue on presence of formaldehyde in fish and fishery products which was raised by European Union. Similarly food safety issue related to melamine in infant milk had been raised by China government. In this connection, time to time directives and food laws & regulation has been passed by Indian government as well as other importing country authorities, but still number of Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) has been increasing. There is an increasing trend towards exports from India, however many developed countries as well as developing countries have doubts for food frauds and food safety from food which they are importing from India. Indian Government is now more focused for exporting safe and quality food across globe and is in process to implement food law strictly and fulfil the global food safety requirements. Exporter have to be ready to face technical challenges and have to follow serious compliance because importing countries have more concern for providing safe food rather than importing low cost food in view of food security of their nation. Since India has plenty of land for agriculture and is growing different food including sea food and aquaculture, there is ample opportunity to export quality food at best prices as there is high demand of Indian food and food additives globally. India is growing seasonal grains, vegetables and other food items excessively as per demand and sometimes farmers destroy their crops or sell it at unviable prices because of glut in production however if these commodities are planned for export they will give better returns to for farmers and enhance economy of our country. Modern instrumental and analytical techniques play an important role for prevention of food fraud and provide safe and good quality food which has resulted in benefits not only in export and import of food and food additives but also achieving compliance to food security for nation.
Current article highlight major problems face by exporter as well as importer to export and import safe food from India and their solutions. This article also provides comprehensive studies on food frauds and their detection by modern instrumental techniques with their limitations. Aim of this article is to highlight current challenges to provide safe food and their possible solutions.

Keywords: Food safety, Technical Challenges, Food Fraud, RASFF, Food Security

| DOI: 10.17148/IARJSET.2025.12724