Saturday, 08 JUNE 2024 | PNS | DEHRADUN
A seminar on food safety was organised under joint aegis of the Food Safety and Drug Administration (FDA) and Public Relations Society of India (PRSI) on the occasion of World Food Day on Friday. The entrepreneurs, restaurant and hotel owners, media personnel and subject experts took part in the programme.
Speaking on the occasion, the additional commissioner FDA, Tajber Singh Jaggi said that balanced and safe food is the very basis of a healthy lifestyle. He said that the department has started a special campaign on the Char Dham Yatra route and at the tourist spots to check food adulteration. He said that the people can register their complaint on toll free number 180018004246. Jaggi said that the State government has sent requisition for recruitment of 25 food safety officers and the recruitment process is underway. He informed that three mobile testing laboratories of the department are operational in the field. The department has so far trained 2,000 street vendors in different districts of the State on aspects of food safety.
Expressing his views, Dr Santosh of the Community Medicine department of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Rishikesh said that the world is currently under the spell of a food pandemic. He said that people are preferring taste over nutrition due to which they are suffering from many diseases. Dr Santosh added that for better health a good kitchen is necessary than a gym. He said that a large population is suffering from food addiction and are suffering from hypertension, heart attack, obesity and other diseases.
The chairperson of Dehradun chapter of PRSI and deputy director information, Ravi Bijarnia said that discussion on food safety is very important. He said that there is a need to spread awareness on the subject. The deputy commissioner of FDA Ganesh Chandra Kandwal said the department will soon publish a book titled ‘Kasauti’ in which all the information about food safety will be given. He said that people can know about the adulteration in the edible items in their homes by simple techniques. Kandwal said that these techniques are mentioned in the Food safety App of the department.
Senior journalist Jyotsna said women should be made aware of all aspects of food safety.
