BFSA is a facilitating agency tasked with rendering necessary support to those entities/organisations directly involved in updating and upgrading the food safety standards or guidelines; in determining permissible limits at its highest safe level for use of contaminants and residue, additives or preservatives; in determining permissible limits of radiation in food; in formulating and implementing accreditation policies; in formulating procedural guidelines for accrediting food testing laboratories and requesting the government to increase the capacity of safe food controlling agencies and organisation.

BFSA will coordinate the activities of the various agencies and organisations engaged in controlling food safety as well as those involved in activities relating to food production, import, processing, stockpiling, supplying, marketing and sales, to ensure peoples’ right of access to safe food through appropriate application of modern scientific processes and state of the art technology. As a coordinator BFSA is very much reliant on the proactive role of the safe food controlling agencies and organisations.

Vision 

Safe food for all to protect life and health

Mission

To protect consumers’ lives and health by monitoring the safety of the food supply chain and coordinating the work of the many official food controlling agencies to ensure the effective and uniform enforcement of food regulations.