National Food Safety Management Advisory Council

The council faces persistent fragmentation of food safety governance across 15 ministries and 18 agencies, causing regulatory duplication and hindering a unified control system.

The body established under Section 3 of the Safe Food Act 2013 (Act No. 43) is formally named the National Food Safety Management Advisory Council (NFSMAC), not 'Bangladesh Food Safety Advisory Council (BFSAC)' as initially referenced in the task brief — the latter name does not appear in the Act or in primary BFSA/government sources. NFSMAC comprises 29 members including the Minister of Food (ex officio chair) and a Parliament member nominated by the Speaker; the full breakdown of all 29 member categories was not reproducible from available open-text sources. Legal basis is Chapter II, Section 3 of the Food Safety Act 2013; the Act was enacted October 10, 2013 (Act No. 43 of 2013). BFSA was separately constituted under Section 5 of the same Act on February 2, 2015. The council is mandated to meet at least twice yearly; the most recently documented meeting in press and regulatory filings was February 13, 2020 (per the USDA GAIN/FAIRS Country Report, Bangladesh, June 2021). No NFSMAC meeting has been confirmed for 2025 or 2026 from any available primary source. Bangla name could not be confirmed from primary sources and is set to null. Established year is set to 2013 (year the enabling legislation was enacted), though the council may not have been formally constituted until BFSA operations began in 2015. website is recorded as bfsa.gov.bd (the BFSA site, which governs NFSMAC secretariat functions) as NFSMAC has no independent website. Current chair Mohammad Amin Ur Rashid holds the combined Agriculture, Food, Fisheries and Livestock portfolio as a technocrat minister; Sultan Salahuddin Tuku is State Minister for the same combined portfolio and is the more publicly active voice on food safety enforcement. Verification is 'partial' because: (a) the Bangla name is unconfirmed, (b) no 2025-2026 NFSMAC meeting minutes or notices are publicly available, (c) full 29-member composition list was not reproducible. activity_score is 2 (the council itself is largely dormant in public record; enforcement activity occurs at BFSA level, not council level).