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ICT’s food engg dept organises Rege memorial seminar on nutraceuticals
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Thursday, 16 February, 2017, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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Anurag More, Mumbai
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The Institute of Chemical Technology’s (ICT) food engineering and technology department organised the Prof D V Rege memorial seminar titled Nutraceuticals - Science to Business under the TEQIP programme in collaboration with the Mumbai chapter of the Association of Food Scientists and Technologists India (AFSTI) in Mumbai.
Suresh Annapure, joint commissioner, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Maharashtra; Smita Lele, registrar, ICT; V Prakash, scientist, CSIR India; G D Yadav, vice-chancellor, ICT, Arun Sharma, senior consultant, Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), New Delhi, and Uday Annapure, head of the department, food, ICT, were present at the inaugural session.
In his inaugural speech, Uday Annapure said, “I welcome everyone to the event, and it gives me pleasure to introduce the speakers and dignitaries present today. The seminar is organised in memory of Prof Rege.”
Prabodh Halde, president, AFSTI Mumbai chapter spoke about the speakers and their presentations and how the day will progress.
Lele, said, “We have to worship knowledge, because knowledge helps to move ahead.”
She added that doing ethical business was the need of hour to take the industry to the next level.
Suresh Annapure said, “I am really honoured to be a part of this event.” He added, “Being in FDA, I assure the industry that it will get any help it needs for the betterment of the industry. Such events will help the industry grow.”
“We also have come up with our own institute, where we will impart training to food business operators (FBOs) and FDA employees,” he added.
Sharma said, “It gives me great pleasure to be part of this programme. It’s my privilege to be present among all of you and I wish the organisers all the best for the event.”
Yadav said, “I was delighted when I was informed that there is seminar in memory of Prof Rege. I came to know more about the food industry and food technologists after being with him.”
He said companies should have fellowship programmes for ICT students.
“We plan to help sick food companies as consultants to make them profitable. We also want our students to become entrepreneurs and want them to inculcate team spirit,” Yadav added.
Prakash spoke about the opportunities for the bioactive, nutritional and nutraceutical industries in the health and wellness sector.
His presentation included such topics as climate change and food, increasing green house gases and the key factors in food shortages and effects of environmental stress on plants.
“It is about enabling urbanites to lead healthy lives with low carbon footprint diets. Value addition is the key for dairy industry,” Prakash said.
He spoke about combining nutrients and nutraceuticals for health benefits and the role of nutraceuticals in healthy life.
Prakash also mentioned the marketing trends fuelling healthy foods and success thereon.
“Consumers are looking for foods that have positive health with nutritional and nutraceutical attributes,” he added.
“There are two key issues regarding the regulation of functional foods - how federal agencies and regulations are ensuring the safety of functional foods and dietary supplements and how accurate companies are in stating health-related products.”
Technical sessions
The first technical session was titled Decoding regulations, While Sharma was the chairperson of the session, M M Chitale was co-chairperson.
Sharma was the first speaker. He spoke about nutraceutical regulations, scientific committees and scientific panels, types of standards [vertical standards (for dairy, fruits, etc.) and horizontal standards (for packaging and labelling), and the process of developing a standard and its notification (which is a part of risk management).
He also spoke about a scientific panel for functional foods, nutraceuticals and other similar products, the science behind nutra regulations, the free radical theory of ageing and oxidative changes in food, the tasks ahead, review and improvement of the standards, laying down microbiological specifications and establishing methods of sampling and analysis.
Dr Bhaskarachary, assistant director, National Institute of Nutrition (NIN), Hyderabad, spoke about bioactive phytochemicals in Indian foods, the 51 known essential nutrients for sustaining human life and the importance and benefits of nutraceuticals, foods and lifestyle.
He added, “We have to increase the fecal diet.” He said, “Wheat consumption in India and free radicals are part of life. We consume 3.5kg of oxygen per day, of which 2.8 per cent is not completely reduced and forms free radicals.:
J Lewis, food regulatory consultant, FSSAI, spoke about claims in the light of new regulations, the claim framework, regulations and claims in the framework and types and nutrition and health claims.
The second technical session was on the industry perspective. It was chaired by J S Pai, executive director, Protein Foods and Nutrition Development Association of India (PFNDAI), and co-chaired by Deepa Bhajekar, managing director, D Technology.
Arun Balakrishnan, chief scientific officer, Omniactive Health Technologies, spoke on global trends in nutraceuticals and why we need them and the current regulatory scenario.
He said that nutraceutical consumption is growing fast and the nutraceutical market is much large in the United States than in Europe.
The nutraceutical market in India is growing and lifestyle health problems drive nutraceutical consumption. Healthy eating is increasing.
Dr Anil Kumar K, head innovation centre, Tata Chemicals, spoke about nutraceuticals and antibiotics against infectious diseases.
He spoke about the evolution of dietary needs, and food nowadays is consumed for pleasure and physical activities have been reduced due to industrialisation.
There was panel discussion on opportunities and challenges in nutraceuticals. The chairperson for the session was Nagarsekar, past president, AFSTI India, and the co-chairperson was Nilesh Amritkar, vice-president, AFSTI Mumbai.
The other panelists were Sanjay Singh, head, research and development (R&D), Ruchi Soya, Vilas Shirhatti, food consultant, Gauri Vahalkat, Khalsa College and K S Laddha of ICT.
Snehasis Chakraborty, treasurer, AFSTI Mumbai, proposed the vote of thanks.
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