Safe Food to begin with, will primarily need fundamental changes to take place in the way food is produced. This then has to be followed up with ensuring that the post-production processing also keeps our food safe (processing, ripening, coloring, flavoring, packaging etc.). But without ensuring the former, measures on the latter front will be meaningless. INDIA FOR SAFE FOOD believes that it is inadequate to just set standards at the retail end, without cleaning up our production processes, since by doing the latter, both farmers and consumers would benefit and enforcement of any safe food prescriptions will happen easily and better. Cleaning up of food production systems would mean removal of agri-chemicals and other agents like antibiotics from farming by our farming. You may ask, "is that possible?"and the GOOD NEWS IS, YES, IT IS VERY MUCH POSSIBLE! Tens of thousands of farmers are indeed producing food without the use of harmful toxins and other substances. In fact, in Andhra Pradesh, a special government programme called Community Managed Sustainable Agriculture (CMSA) with lakhs of farmers is ensuring that farmers give up the use of chemical pesticides by an approach called NPM (Non Pesticidal Management of crops). YOU CAN READ MORE ABOUT CMSA ON THE RURAL DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT (GOVERNMENT OF ANDHRA PRADESH)'S WEBSITE ON THIS LINK: http://www.rd.ap.gov.in/NPM.htm and http://www.serp.ap.gov.in/CMSA/ Additionally, tens of thousands of organic farmers around the country are also proving that pesticides and other poisons are not inevitable in our agriculture. A lot of information on the organic farming movements in the country can be obtained at the following link: http://ofai.org/