Food and Drug Administration,

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State, is Maharashtra's primary instrument of

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. It is a law enforcement agency. In 1970, the

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entrusted the responsibility of enforcement of the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954 to FDA which is when it got its present name.

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