WORLD FOOD INDIA 2017 & WASTE FOOD ; FSSAI – Doesn’t Control Raw Foods Supply to Factory-Retail;

AGRICULTURE NEWS

Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MoFPI), Government of India is organizing a mega international food summit, World Food India in New Delhi from 3 – 5 November 2017.

A Hackathon would be organized coinciding with the World Food India event.

SOURCE: https://www.mygov.in/task/world-food-india-hackathon-2017/

MINISTER AT ALL INDIA RADIO :
ENGLISH : http://newsonair.com/writereaddata/broadcast/Weekly-Country%20wide-Bulletins-56833.mp3

2 NOVEMBER UNDER "COUNTRYWIDE"   http://newsonair.nic.in/Main_Audio_Bulletins_Search.aspx

PREVIOUS EFFORT OF MINISTRY:

Objective

The Food Processing Industry is one of the largest industries in India and ranks fifth in terms of production, consumption, and exports. Food processing industry in India is a sunrise sector that has gained prominence in the recent years. Availability of raw materials, changing lifestyles and appropriate fiscal policies has given a considerable push to the industry’s growth. This sector serves as a vital link between the agriculture and industrial segments of the economy.

To design solutions by leveraging technology for various problems in the food processing sector.

BIRAC-Innovation Challenge Award'17: Solutions for Community Health (SoCH)

                        BIRAC-SoCH is an Innovation Challenge Award aimed at propelling the Indian innovators towards combating the challenges of community health sector. SoCH award is highly focused and directed towards achieving a clear bold and audacious goal, pushing the boundaries of human imagination and expertise by focusing on issues currently held to be untraceable or that has no clear solution.

Themes for SoCH 2017-18:-

i. Platform technologies for reducing the burden of Diseases (Communicable and Non-communicable diseases)
ii. Sanitation and Waste Recycling

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FSSAI – Doesn’t Control Raw Foods Supply to Factory-Retail  

November02, 2017 (C) Ravinder Singh

FSSAI acknowledges on its website that 33% of food is lost between Farms and Consumption. Nutrition loss could be even 50% when food is delivered after many days of delay and store and transported in Unhygienic Conditions. We see on YouTube how Potato or other Fresh Crops are cleaned and Packaged for Long Distance transport or to nearby factory within hour of harvest.

FSSAI didn’t acknowledge it has no control over Supply of Raw Foods to Factories, Mandis, Stores and Retail. I wondered why there is no SAMPLING at Markets like Azadpur, or Cold Stores, or Street Vendors or FCI Stores etc. FSSA 2006 didn’t empower FSSAI to inspect the Unhygienic RAW FOODS Supply Chain.

The authority to determine whether it meets Standards or Specifications prescribed by the ISI [BIS] or Supply Order. 

As given in the Food Safety and Standards act 2006 –

Ø FSSAI Doesn’t Control Raw Foods Supply & Retail – merely regulate Factory and Food Products, their Packaging, Labeling and Sale as Foods processing levels are under 6%.

Ø CONTROL is important – Milk Sample rejected by AMUL for example is not dumped in the Gutter sold cheaply to small shop. At Mandis, Degraded foods are SORTED – for bad quality or better than bad quality.

Ø FACTORY OWNERS ARE LIABLE FOR THEIR PRODUCTS WITHIN FACTORY TO SALES.

FROM THE LAW:

16. Duties and functions of Food Authority. (1) It shall be the duty of the Food Authority to regulate and monitor the manufacture, processing, distribution, sale and import of food so as to ensure safe and wholesome food.

(2) Without prejudice to the provisions of sub-section (1), the Food Authority may by regulations specify–

[All Compromises – directed to set Limits of Contaminants]

26. Responsibilities of the Food business operator. (1) Every food business operator shall ensure that the articles of food satisfy the requirements of this Act and the rules and regulations made thereunder at all stages of production, processing, foreign import, distribution and sale within the businesses under his control.

(2) No food business operator shall himself or by any person on his behalf

manufacture, store, sell or distribute any article of food –

(i) which is unsafe; or

(ii) which is misbranded or sub-standard or contains extraneous matter; or ... 

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At World Food India global food seminar and exhibition we should learn from Global Experiences, Practices, and Regulations, Develop Hygienic Supply Chain from Farm to Fork, Minimize Waste & Nutrition Loss and still Maximize Income to all Stake Holders. 

 

THE  FOOD SAFETY AND STANDARDS ACT, 2006

http://lawmin.nic.in/ld/P-ACT/2006/The%20Food%20Safety%20and%20Standards%20Act,%202006.pdf

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