Ensuring safety ofstreet food in light of the new emerging problems in context to COVID-19

Street foods form an important part of dietary consumption of people because of their wide variety, easy availability, taste, low cost etc. It satisfies the nutritional need of low income to middle income people. It is also the source of income of millions of vendors, their families as well people who supply the raw materials. To ensure the safety of street foods nationalstandards are availablee. g: IS 16066: 2017 of BIS, which address the safety, health and nutrition concerns. However, in the light of the unprecedented threat from COVID-19 pandemic and other infectious discuses, special precautions are needed to be followed. To ensure safe food vending the present paper discusses these issues, which are to be considered in future to revise the existing codes in the standards to ensure safe food vending. This will notonly be a most progressive step to reach safe streetfood to millions of customers but also give economic respite to the vendors selling street foods and the stakeholders involved in the unorganised food sector in India.