Quality Control Essay

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1.4 INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND OF THE QUALITY CONTROL DEPARTMENT
Role of Quality Control in Food Corporation of India and other storage agencies in respect of food safety and standards ACT 2006 and Consumers Protection Act 1986; The genesis of Quality Control is the consumer protection and producer welfare. An efficient marketing system ensures provision of right quality of food commodities for the price paid by the consumer and this price commensurate to the quality of foodgrains offered for sale by the producer. Due weightage to the quality, in the overall marketing process, consequently meets the consumer and seller satisfaction. Effective quality control measure, as a result, is an important determinant of the efficient marketing system. …show more content…

Food commodities, which do not deviate and lose any of their basic character and ingredients, are termed to have retained their wholesomeness and nutritive value. These ingredients are measure in terms of standard/grades and covered under specifications to market and to fix a reasonable price based on the quality and quantity retention of natural and acquire characteristics. Here the Quality Control has to play an important and a unique role to maintain the standards of foodgrains to the ultimate requirements of humans.
Quality Control-A Marketing Function Quality Control, as an instrument of assistance to all users of foodgrains like producers, dealers/traders, processors, storage personnel’s, consumers etc., is an activity, a procedure, a method or a programme that ensures the maintenance and continuity of quality standards of food grain within the prescribed specification during the process of marketing. Quality Control and assurance consequently is one of the major marketing functions in the case of agricultural commodities like foodgrains.
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These standards should take care of marketing problems like adulteration; malpractices etc. and satisfy the need of all within and outside the country. Quality standards for foodgrains and pulses are explained in the form of grades and specification, for their marketing and processing. Modern scientific techniques are adopted for evaluating the quality. Grader is an establishment measure of quality of a commodity being marketed. It establishes an understandable language among buyers and sellers by forming a base to judge the quality of a commodity in relation to its price. It helps in sorting out the class and condition of the lots for which standards of specifications have been established, with the sole objectives of marketing and handling them efficiently.
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