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Spices Board organises Food Safety Conclave aimed at capacity building
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Wednesday, 13 February, 2019, 13 : 00 PM [IST]
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Our Bureau, New Delhi
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With the objective of promoting food safety and capacity building, Spices Board organised a National Conclave on Food Safety in New Delhi on Tuesday. It was inaugurated by B N S Murthy. M K Shanmuga Sundaram, secretary, Spices Board, and Christopher Priddy, representing country head, USFDA, were present on the occasion.
Sundaram, in his address, emphasised the need for safe food for a healthy, growing generation and the board’s obligations to fulfill national and international standards. He said that it was the responsibility of all stakeholders to ensure food safety from farm to fork.
Murthy, in his inaugural address, pointed out the concerns to be addressed at the farm level and the need for post-harvest hygiene and the prevention of unintentional contaminations for safe food. Priddy presented an overview of the Food Safety Modernisation Act.
The food safety requirements under FSSAI regulations were elaborated and presented by Sunil Bakshi, advisor FSSAI. Food safety hazards in the spice industry was the topic of the presentation by James Rushing of JIFSAN (Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition), USFDA. The impact assessment of food safety training programmes were presented by JIFSAN’s Clare Narrod.
A panel discussion on the future path to implementation of food safety measures was also held at the end of the programme.
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