The dollars involved in international food trade are very high and so is the Indian interest with regards to FDI, employment and above all the constitutionally guaranteed rights of health and life based on nutritious and healthy food. India’s domestic obligations viz a viz WTO regime put major challenges before the concerned authorities especially when India looses a very big case in WTO on health issues. At domestic level the newly transformed Act called Food Safety and Standard Act, 2006 with aims to ease the business of food along with safeguarding consumers’ interests does not seem that effective in the absence of enough food product standards and infrastructures. In the aftermath of ‘maggi’ issue how India is going to face the challenge effectively without sacrificing the lion’s share in the whole process. The paper will focus over these issues in seven chapters before reaching a conclusion in chapter eight. The first segment will give general introduction as to why there is a need to analyze recent controversies related to food at WTO as well as domestic level. In second segment the volumes of international food trade, dollars involved, the potential growth and India’s approach towards it along with policy measures are discussed. Next segment is focused on the core issue as to why do food safety issue matters the most for developing country like India with over a billion people to feed out of which 363 million people survive on less than a dollar a day. The succeeding segment is to venture in to India’s harmonization with WTO’s SPS measures and the case which India lost at both Panel and Appellate Body level against USA in June 2015 relating to ‘bird flu’. It will also cover how India is going to implement this ruling or can it come with its own risk assessment before 18 months are over and what will be its overall impact on India. In Fifth segment the politics played over international food trade as to how a country stops others’ products in its country and how does certain International NGOs too can also be a party to this politics is discussed. Segment sixis centered on judicial approach towards the new FSSA, 2006 and food safety issues. In segment seven the Nestle’s ‘maggi’ issues and FSSAI’s role along with liability of celebrity endorsers is discussed and also politics over street food is also highlighted. Finally last segment deduces the conclusion to the entire discussion.