IMPROVING FOOD SAFETY Cll and FDA launch a capacity building program for State food labs

摘要

CII's Food and Agriculture Centre of Excellence(FACE),in partnership with Food and Drugs Authority(FDA),Maharashtra,launched an initiative on-'Enhancing Maharashtra's Food Safety Index’through capacity building of its food testing labs on February,2,2023 in Mumbai.The programme will support eight food testing labs across the State,helping them enhance skills to ensure safe food and compliance to food safety standards.The initiative is being supported by Cargill India.The State Food Safety Index(SFSI)was initiated by Food Safety and Standards Authority of India(FSSAI)in 2018-19 as a benchmarking framework to evaluate the food safety ecosystem in India.The index measures the performance of States and Union Territories on five parameters of food safety:human resources and institutional data;compliance;food testing-infrastructure and surveillance;training & capacity building;and consumer empowerment.Maharashtra took the third position on the SFSI released by FSSAI in June 2022.