The State’s Efforts to Protect Citizens the Concept of Maslahat in Distribution Permit to Maintain Food Safety (Islamic Perspective)

Abstract

The state has a big responsibility in maintaining the safety of its citizens. After the pandemic era, the country made food safety a priority for the government in an effort to raise the level of public health. The death rate from poisoning and food-borne illness needs to be watched out for. The distribution permit is one of the government’s efforts to provide protection to its citizens. Even though the distribution permit is considered by some to be an obstacle to doing business. However, through the distribution permit, there are benefits to protecting the circulation of food that has the potential to cause harm. For this reason, the researcher raised the theme above as an answer that Islam is very concerned about safety even though it is through a distribution permit. Islam admits that with the distribution permit, the safety of residents can be controlled. The method in this research is socio-legal research that examines food safety from the perspective of Micro small and Medium Enterprises (MSEs) in the Bogor area by relating it to the applicable laws and regulations. The results of the study show that business actors are aware of the importance of distribution permits in ensuring food safety and increasing product turnover. Food safety is in line with thayyib standards in Islamic Law which means food must be good and not cause harm when consumed. The distribution permit for frozen food gave rise to a polemic between storage standards in a certain way and efforts by business actors to survive in diverting their business into frozen food products. The Food and Drug Supervisory Agency (BPOM) has acted swiftly and wisely by launching new guidelines that distinguish the distribution license standard for Micro small and Medium Enterprises, which is different from the company’s mass production. Frozen food made by Micro small and Medium Enterprises does not require a distribution permit if the shelf life is less than 7 days and is directly distributed to consumers. Keywords : Safety Food, Distribution Permit, State Protection