Administration of Food & Drug Safety in Bihar

The health of the people in Bihar is exposed to several known and unknown factors that contribute burden of diseases to a great extent both actively and passively. Some major health challenges emerged due to changed lifestyles, consumerism, and cultural transformation across the state equally in urban and rural areas. New public health challenges emerged due to enhanced use of alcohol, substances, adulterated food, and drugs, lack of safety measures, unhygienic conditions, exposure to undesired amounts of radiation, and adverse vehicular conditions. The inadequate response of the <i>Public Health Administration</i> and <i>Food &amp; Drug Safety Administration</i> in Bihar further contributed to the miseries. Use of insecticides, pesticides, carbides, oxytocin, alcohol, spurious drugs, and adulterated food items including packaged foods all responsible for the poor health of the population. On the one side sizeable population in Bihar finds it hard to manage food with enough calories daily and on the reverse such factors are like a <i>multiple trouble</i>. It was so easy to manufacture and sell spurious or adulterated items in Bihar so much so that a whole structure of makers, suppliers, and retailers of such items existed across the state. Several well-known brands also turned very doubtful. The situation demanded concerted, institutionalized, and sustainable action.