(Social Work/Psychology/ Labour

and Social Welfare/ Library

Science)

Questions

Commonly use social media handles (Whatsapp, FB, Twitter, etc). would be tested.

Questions

∙ FSS Rules and Regulations 

∙ Overview of other relevant national bodies (e.g. APEDA, BIS EIC, MPEDA, Spice  Board etc.) 

∙ International Food Control Systems/Laws, Regulations and  Standards/Guidelines with regard to Food Safety– (i) Overview of CODEX  Alimentarius. Commission (History, Members, Standard setting and Advisory  mechanisms: JECFA, JEMRA, JMPR): WTO agreements (SPS/TBT). 

∙ Important national and international accreditation bodies

∙ Structure and Functions of Food Authority 

∙ Overview of systems and processes in Standards, Enforcement, Laboratory  ecosystem, Imports, Third Party Audit etc. 

∙ Promoting safe and wholesome Food (Eat Right India, Food Fortification, snf,  Clean Street Food Hub, RUCO and various other social and behavioural change  initiatives) 

∙ Training and capacity building 

∙ Role of State Food Authorities

∙ Food Processing Operations, Principles, Good Manufacturing Practices ∙ Overview of food preservation methods and their under lying principles  including novel and emerging methods/principles 

∙ Overview of food packaging methods and principles including novel packaging  materials/techniques 

Principles and Basics of Food Chemistry and their role in Human Nutrition ∙ Structure and functions of macro-and micronutrients 

∙ Role of macro and micronutrients in human nutrition 

∙ Over view of food additives with respect to their technological functions ∙ Over view of anti-nutritional factors and their removal from foods ∙ Over view of enzymes as food processing aids 

∙ Over view of nutraceuticals and functions foods 

∙ Overview of food contaminants and adulterants and their effects on  human health 

∙ Food allergens and allergen city 

∙ Importance of diet in alleviating health risks, especially non communicable diseases 

Food Microbiology & General principles of Food Hygiene 

∙ General principles of food microbiology and over view of food borne pathogens ∙ Over view of sources of microorganisms in food chain (raw materials, water,  air, equipment etc.) and microbiological quality of foods 

∙ Microbial food spoilage and Food borne diseases 

General principles and techniques in microbiological examination of foods ∙ Overview of beneficial microorganisms and their role in food processing  and human nutrition 

∙ General principles of food safety management systems including traceability  and recall – sanitation, HACCP, Good production and processing practices  (GMP,GAP,GHP, GLP, BAP, etc) 

General concepts of Food Analysis and Testing 

∙ Fundamentals of field level and laboratory sampling with reference to  importance of statistical tools. 

∙ Over view of basic/classical methods of food analysis 

∙ Over view of modern analytical techniques including mass spectrometry and  molecular techniques. 

∙ Principles of Quality assurance and Quality control with reference to food  analysis and testing.

Questions

Commonly use social media handles (Whattsapp, FB, Twitter, etc). would be tested.

Questions

∙ FSS Rules and Regulations 

∙ Overview of other relevant national bodies (e.g. APEDA, BIS EIC, MPEDA, Spice  Board etc.) 

∙ International Food Control Systems/Laws, Regulations and  Standards/Guidelines with regard to Food Safety– (i) Overview of CODEX  Alimentarius. Commission (History, Members, Standard setting and Advisory  mechanisms: JECFA, JEMRA, JMPR): WTO agreements (SPS/TBT). 

∙ Important national and international accreditation bodies

∙ Structure and Functions of Food Authority 

∙ Overview of systems and processes in Standards, Enforcement, Laboratory  ecosystem, Imports, Third Party Audit etc. 

∙ Promoting safe and wholesome Food (Eat Right India, Food Fortification, snf,  Clean Street Food Hub, RUCO and various other social and behavioural change  initiatives) 

∙ Training and capacity building 

∙ Role of State Food Authorities

∙ Food Processing Operations, Principles, Good Manufacturing Practices ∙ Overview of food preservation methods and their under lying principles  including novel and emerging methods/principles 

∙ Overview of food packaging methods and principles including novel packaging  materials/techniques 

Principles and Basics of Food Chemistry and their role in Human Nutrition ∙ Structure and functions of macro-and micronutrients 

∙ Role of macro and micronutrients in human nutrition 

∙ Over view of food additives with respect to their technological functions ∙ Over view of anti-nutritional factors and their removal from foods ∙ Over view of enzymes as food processing aids 

∙ Over view of nutraceuticals and functions foods 

∙ Overview of food contaminants and adulterants and their effects on  human health 

∙ Food allergens and allergen city 

∙ Importance of diet in alleviating health risks, especially non communicable diseases 

Food Microbiology & General principles of Food Hygiene 

∙ General principles of food microbiology and over view of food borne pathogens ∙ Over view of sources of microorganisms in food chain (raw materials, water,  air, equipment etc.) and microbiological quality of foods 

∙ Microbial food spoilage and Food borne diseases 

General principles and techniques in microbiological examination of foods ∙ Overview of beneficial microorganisms and their role in food processing  and human nutrition 

∙ General principles of food safety management systems including traceability  and recall – sanitation, HACCP, Good production and processing practices  (GMP,GAP,GHP, GLP, BAP, etc) 

General concepts of Food Analysis and Testing 

∙ Fundamentals of field level and laboratory sampling with reference to  importance of statistical tools. 

∙ Over view of basic/classical methods of food analysis 

∙ Over view of modern analytical techniques including mass spectrometry and  molecular techniques. 

∙ Principles of Quality assurance and Quality control with reference to food  analysis and testing.

questions

∙ Over view of FSS Rules and Regulations 

∙ Overview of other relevant national bodies (e.g. APEDA, BIS EIC, MPEDA, Spice  Board etc.) 

∙ International Food Control Systems/Laws, Regulations and Standards/Guidelines  with regard to Food Safety–(i) Over view of CODEX Alimentarius Commission  (History, Members, Standard setting and Advisory mechanisms: JECFA, JEMRA  JMPR): WTO agreements (SPS/TBT): 

∙ Important national and international accreditation bodies

∙ Structure and Functions of Food Authority 

∙ Over view of systems and processes in Standards, Enforcement, Laboratory  ecosystem, Imports, Third Party Audit 

∙ Promoting safe and wholesome Food (Eat Right India, Food Fortification, snf, Clean  Street Food Hub, RUCO and various other social and behavioural change initiatives) ∙ Training and capacity building 

∙ Role of State Food Authorities

∙ Probability: Conditional Probability; Mean, Median, Mode and Standard Deviation; Random  Variables; Distribution; uniform normal, exponential Poisson, Binomial. 

∙ Set Theory & Algebra: Sets, Relations, Functions, Group, Partial Orders, Lattice, Boolean  Algebra. 

∙ Combinatory: Permutations, Combinations, Counting, Summation, generating functions,  recurrence relations, asymptotic. 

∙ Graph Theory: Connectivity, spanning trees, Cut vertices & edges, covering, matching  independent sets, coloring Planarity, Isomorphism 

∙ Linear Algebra: Algebra of matrices, determinants, systems of linear equations, Elgen value  sand Elgenvectors. 

∙ Numerical Methods: LU decomposition for systems of linear equations; numerical solutions  of non-linear algebraic equations by Secant, Bisection and Newton-Raphson Methods;  Numerical integration by trapezooidal and Simpson’s rules. 

∙ Calculus: Limit, continuity & differentiability, Mean value Theorems, Theorems of Integral  calculus, evaluation of definite & improper integrals, Partial derivatives, Total derivatives,  maxima & minima.

∙ Programming and Data Structure: Programming in C; Functions, Recursion, Parameter  passing, scope, Binding; Abstract data types, Arrays, Stacks, Queues, Linked Lists, Trees,  Binary Search trees, Binary heaps. 

∙ Algorithms: Analysis, Asymptotic notation, Notions of space and time complexity, Worst and  average case analysis, Design, Greedy approach, Dynamic programming, Divide and conquer,  Tree and graph traversals, Connected components, spanning trees, shortest paths, Hashing,  Sorting, Searching, Asymptotic analysis (Best, worst, average cases) of time and space, upper  and lower bounds, Basic concepts of complexity classes-P, NP, NP-Hard, NP-complete. 

∙ Theory of computation: Regular language and finite automata, context free language and  Push-down automate Recursively enumerable sets and Turing machines, Undesirability. ∙ Compeller Design: Lexical analysis, Parsing, Syntax directed translation, Run time  environments, Intermediate and target code generation, Basics of code optimization ∙ Operating Systems: Processes, Threads, Inter-process communication, Concurrency,  Synchronization, Deadlock, CPC scheduling, Memory management and virtual memory. File  systems, I /O Protection and security 

∙ Databases: ER-model, Rational model (relational algebra, tuplecalculus). Database design  (Integrity constraints, normal forms), Query languages (SQL), File structures (sequential file,  indexing, Band B+trees), Transactions and concurrency control. 

∙ Information Systems and Software Engineering: information gathering, requirement and  feasibility analysis, data flow diagrams, process specifications, Input/output design, process  life cycle, planning and managing the project, design, coding testing, implementation,  maintenance. 

∙ Computer Networks: ISO/OSI stack, LAN technologies (Ethernet, Token ring), Flow and error  control techniques, Routing algorithms, congestion control, TCP/UDP and sockets, IP(v4).  Application layer protocols (icmp, dns, smtp, pop, ftp, http): Basic concepts of hubs, switches,  gateways, and routers. Network security-basic concepts of public key and private key  cryptography, digital signature, firewalls. 

∙ Web technologies: HTML, XML, basic concepts of client-server computing.

questions

Will be such that they do not required a special study of any discipline

∙ Structure and Functions of Food Authority 

∙ Over view of systems and processes in Standards, Enforcement, Laboratory ecosystem,  Imports, Third Party Audit 

∙ Promoting safe and wholesome Food (Eat Right India, Food Fortification, SNF, Clean  Street Food Hub, RUCO and various other social and behavioural change initiatives) ∙ Training and capacity building 

∙ Role of State Food Authorities

Section A 

∙ Communication theories: concept and process; Media laws, ethics and regulations;  corporate communication; writing for traditional media (newspapers, magazines, radio,  television etc) and new media (website, blogs, twitter, Facebook etc.); Advertising principles  and concepts, Media planning, campaign planning;  

Section B 

∙ Development of Human Behavior, Sensation, Attention and Perception, Learning,  Memory, Thinking and problem solving, Motivation and Emotion, Intelligence and  Aptitude, Personality, Attitudes, Values and Interests, Language and Communication. Section C 

∙ Library classification, Information sources, services and users, Information and communication technology, Library automation and networking, Library management

Question

(Whatsapp, FB, Twitter etc). would be tested.

Questions

General Intelligence: It would include questions of both verbal and non-verbal  type. The test will include questions on Semantic Analogy, Symbolic operations,  Symbolic/ Number Analogy, Trends, Figural Analogy, Space Orientation  ,Semantic Classification, Venn Diagrams, Symbolic/ Number Classification,  Drawing inferences, Figural Classification, Punched hole/ pattern-folding &  unfolding , Semantic Series, Figural Pattern – folding and completion, Number  Series, Embedded figures, Figural Series, Critical Thinking, Problem Solving,  Emotional Intelligence, Word Building, Social Intelligence, Coding and de-coding,  Other sub-topics, if any Numerical operations.

Translation: Principles & Practices 

Question

questions

∙ Over view of FSS Rules and Regulations 

∙ Overview of other relevant national bodies (e.g. APEDA, BIS EIC, MPEDA, Spice  Board etc.) 

∙ International Food Control Systems/Laws, Regulations and Standards/Guidelines  with regard to Food Safety–(i) Over view of CODEX Alimentarius Commission  (History, Members, Standard setting and Advisory mechanisms: JECFA, JEMRA  JMPR): WTO agreements (SPS/TBT): 

∙ Important national and international accreditation bodies

∙ Structure and Functions of Food Authority 

∙ Over view of systems and processes in Standards, Enforcement, Laboratory  ecosystem, Imports, Third Party Audit 

∙ Promoting safe and wholesome Food (Eat Right India, Food Fortification, snf, Clean  Street Food Hub, RUCO and various other social and behavioural change initiatives) ∙ Training and capacity building 

∙ Role of State Food Authorities

∙ Probability: Conditional Probability; Mean, Median, Mode and Standard Deviation; Random  Variables; Distribution; uniform normal, exponential Poisson, Binomial. 

∙ Set Theory & Algebra: Sets, Relations, Functions, Group, Partial Orders, Lattice, Boolean  Algebra. 

∙ Combinatory: Permutations, Combinations, Counting, Summation, generating functions,  recurrence relations, asymptotic. 

∙ Graph Theory: Connectivity, spanning trees, Cut vertices & edges, covering, matching  independent sets, coloring Planarity, Isomorphism 

∙ Linear Algebra: Algebra of matrices, determinants, systems of linear equations, Elgen value  sand Elgen vectors. 

∙ Numerical Methods: LU decomposition for systems of linear equations; numerical solutions  of non-linear algebraic equations by Secant, Bisection and Newton-Raphson Methods;  Numerical integration by trapezooidal and Simpson’s rules. 

∙ Calculus: Limit, continuity & differentiability, Mean value Theorems, Theorems of Integral  calculus, evaluation of definite & improper integrals, Partial derivatives, Total derivatives,  maxima & minima.

∙ Programming and Data Structure: Programming in C; Functions, Recursion, Parameter passing,  scope, Binding; Abstract data types, Arrays, Stacks, Queues, Linked Lists, Trees, Binary Search  trees, Binary heaps. 

∙ Algorithms: Analysis, Asymptotic notation, Notions of space and time complexity, Worst and  average case analysis, Design, Greedy approach, Dynamic programming, Divide and conquer,  Tree and graph traversals, Connected components, spanning trees, shortest paths, Hashing,  Sorting, Searching, Asymptotic analysis (Best, worst, average cases) of time and space, upper  and lower bounds, Basic concepts of complexity classes-P, NP, NP-Hard, NP-complete. 

∙ Theory of computation: Regular language and finite automata, context free language and  Push-down automate Recursively enumerable sets and Turing machines, Undesirability. ∙ Compeller Design: Lexical analysis, Parsing, Syntax directed translation, Run time  environments, Intermediate and target code generation, Basics of code optimization ∙ Operating Systems: Processes, Threads, Inter-process communication, Concurrency,  Synchronization, Deadlock, CPC scheduling, Memory management and virtual memory. File  systems, I /O Protection and security 

∙ Databases: ER-model, Rational model (relational algebra, tuplecalculus). Database design  (Integrity constraints, normal forms), Query languages (SQL), File structures (sequential file,  indexing, Band B+trees), Transactions and concurrency control. 

∙ Information Systems and Software Engineering: information gathering, requirement and  feasibility analysis, data flow diagrams, process specifications, Input/output design, process  life cycle, planning and managing the project, design, coding testing, implementation,  maintenance. 

∙ Computer Networks: ISO/OSI stack, LAN technologies (Ethernet, Token ring), Flow and error  control techniques, Routing algorithms, congestion control, TCP/UDP and sockets, IP(v4).  Application layer protocols (icmp, dns, smtp, pop, ftp, http): Basic concepts of hubs, switches,  gateways, and routers. Network security-basic concepts of public key and private key  cryptography, digital signature, firewalls. 

∙ Web technologies: HTML, XML, basic concepts of client-server computing.

Question

Questions

∙ FSS Rules and Regulations 

∙ Overview of other relevant national bodies (e.g. APEDA, BIS EIC, MPEDA, Spice Board  etc.) 

∙ International Food Control Systems/Laws, Regulations and Standards/Guidelines with  regard to Food Safety–(i) Overview of CODEX Alimentarius Commission (History,  Members, Standard setting and Advisory mechanisms: JECFA, JEMRA JMPR):WTO  agreements (SPS/TBT): 

∙ Important national and international accreditation bodies

∙ Structure and Functions of Food Authority 

∙ Over view of systems and processes in Standards, Enforcement, Laboratory ecosystem,  Imports, Third Party Audit 

∙ Promoting safe and wholesome Food (Eat Right India, Food Fortification, snf, Clean  Street Food Hub, RUCO and various other social and behavioural change initiatives) ∙ Training and capacity building 

∙ Role of State Food Authorities

Section A 

 Administrative and Financial Functioning 

∙ Office Procedure & Office Management 

∙ General Financial Rules-2017 

∙ FR & SR, Medical Attendance Rules, Travelling Allowances Rules, LTC Rules, Joining  Time Rules 

∙ CCS (CCA) Rules, 1965, CCS (Conduct) Rules, 1964 

∙ CCS (Pension) Rules 1972, Provident Fund Rules & New Pension Scheme ∙ Reservation Policy 

∙ Constitutional framework of government, Union Government and Administration,  Parliamentary procedures, budget process, RTI Act etc. 

∙ Receipt and Payment Rules, 1983 

∙ Government Accounting Rules 

∙ Grievance Redressal Mechanism in Central Government 

 OR 

Section B 

Constitutional Law 

∙ Features and general principles of Constitutional Law, Part III, IV and IV A of the  Constitution of India, Judiciary at Federal and State Levels, Conduct of Government  Business, Executive power of the Union and the States, 1st Part XIII dealing with trade,  commerce and intercourse within the territory of India, Centre State relations, Legislature  at Union, State and Local Levels. 

 Administrative Law 

∙ Principles of Natural Justice, Rule of Law, Quasi-Judicial, quasi – administrative and  administrative bodies: powers, functions and discretions, Delegated Legislation, Executive  control and supervision of autonomous bodies, Difference between Inquisitorial and  Adversarial system, Ombudsman, Lokayukta and Lokpal etc. 

Procedural Law 

∙ Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 including Procedure relating to summoning,  examination etc. of witnesses etc. Temporary Injunction and interim relief, Law of Evidence  including Presumption and conclusive proof, Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Penal Laws  including Indian Penal Code, Law of Arbitration and Conciliation, Mediation, Alternate  Dispute Resolution – concept, purpose/prospects. 

Multi-disciplinary and Contemporary Legal Issues 

∙ Intellectual Property regime, Trademarks etc, Valuation issues in intellectual  properties, Law and Economics – use and knowledge of basic economic principles in  appreciation of the competition law, Major statutes governing environmental law,  Competition law and common man, Consumer Protection Act and the Competition Act,  International Competition Law framework: OECD, ICN, WTO, UN etc, Basic principles of  statutory interpretation, IT and cyber laws; concept, purpose/prospects. 

 Law of Contract, Law of Partnership, Corporate Law (Overall Understanding)

Questions

Commonly use social media handles (Whatsapp, FB, Twitter, etc) would be tested.

∙ FSS Rules and Regulations 

∙ Overview of other relevant national bodies (e.g. APEDA, BIS EIC, MPEDA, Spice  Board etc.) 

∙ International Food Control Systems/Laws, Regulations and  Standards/Guidelines with regard to Food Safety– (i) Overview of CODEX  Alimentarius. Commission (History, Members, Standard setting and Advisory  mechanisms: JECFA, JEMRA, JMPR): WTO agreements (SPS/TBT). 

∙ Important national and international accreditation bodies

∙ Structure and Functions of Food Authority 

∙ Overview of systems and processes in Standards, Enforcement, Laboratory  ecosystem, Imports, Third Party Audit etc. 

∙ Promoting safe and wholesome Food (Eat Right India, Food Fortification, snf,  Clean Street Food Hub, RUCO and various other social and behavioural change  initiatives) 

∙ Training and capacity building 

∙ Role of State Food Authorities

∙ Food Processing Operations, Principles, Good Manufacturing Practices ∙ Overview of food preservation methods and their under lying principles  including novel and emerging methods/principles 

∙ Overview of food packaging methods and principles including novel packaging  materials/techniques 

Principles and Basics of Food Chemistry and their role in Human Nutrition ∙ Structure and functions of macro-and micronutrients 

∙ Role of macro and micronutrients in human nutrition 

∙ Over view of food additives with respect to their technological functions ∙ Over view of anti-nutritional factors and their removal from foods ∙ Over view of enzymes as food processing aids 

∙ Over view of nutraceuticals and functions foods 

∙ Overview of food contaminants and adulterants and their effects on  human health 

∙ Food allergens and allergen city 

∙ Importance of diet in alleviating health risks, especially non communicable diseases 

Food Microbiology & General principles of Food Hygiene 

∙ General principles of food microbiology and over view of food borne pathogens ∙ Over view of sources of microorganisms in food chain (raw materials, water,  air, equipment etc.) and microbiological quality of foods 

∙ Microbial food spoilage and Food borne diseases 

General principles and techniques in microbiological examination of foods ∙ Overview of beneficial microorganisms and their role in food processing  and human nutrition 

∙ General principles of food safety management systems including traceability  and recall – sanitation, HACCP, Good production and processing practices  (GMP,GAP,GHP, GLP, BAP, etc.) 

General concepts of Food Analysis and Testing 

∙ Fundamentals of field level and laboratory sampling with reference to  importance of statistical tools. 

∙ Over view of basic/classical methods of food analysis 

∙ Over view of modern analytical techniques including mass spectrometry and  molecular techniques. 

∙ Principles of Quality assurance and Quality control with reference to food  analysis and testing.

questions

∙ Structure and Functions of Food Authority 

∙ Over view of systems and processes in Standards, Enforcement, Laboratory ecosystem,  Imports, Third Party Audit 

∙ Promoting safe and wholesome Food (Eat Right India, Food Fortification, SNF, Clean  Street Food Hub, RUCO and various other social and behavioural change initiatives) ∙ Training and capacity building 

∙ Role of State Food Authorities

Section-A  

Communication theories; Concept and Process; Corporate Communication  

Section-B 

Media Laws, Ethics and Regulations,  

Section-C  

Writing for traditional media (newspapers, magazines, radio, television etc.) and new media  (website, blogs, twitter, Facebook etc.); 

Section-D  

Advertising Principles and Concepts,  

Section-E  

Media Planning, Campaign planning; Advertising,  

Section-F  

Marketing and PR Research. 

FSSAI Recruitment 2022 Selection Process

Interview             – 15%