‘Encouraging healthy eating practices’: FSSAI identifies 35 Eat Right Schools in Pune

Since the past mates of years, FSSAI has embarked connected a large-scale effort to alteration the country’s nutrient strategy to guarantee safe, healthy, and sustainable nutrient done the Eat Right India movement. The tagline Sahi Bhojan, Behtar Jeevan, forms the instauration of this movement.

Chaudhary said that nether the Eat Right India nationwide movement, respective initiatives person been included similar Clean Street Food Hub, Eat Right School, and Eat Right Campus among others. “These are aimed astatine promoting environment-friendly nutrient practices and habits and successful the Western portion we are successful the process of carrying guardant the movement,” Chaudhary added.

The Eat Right School programme aims astatine creating consciousness astir nutrient safety, nutrition and hygiene among schoolhouse children, and done them among the assemblage astatine large. “Children are almighty alteration agents. Messages delivered to, and done children, person the imaginable to usher successful behavioral alteration and a civilization of harmless and wholesome food. FSSAI has signed an MoU with the authorities acquisition section nether which each schools of Maharashtra volition beryllium certified arsenic Eat Right Schools. The people is to implicit much than 400 schools successful the archetypal signifier and 35 schools person already been identified successful Pune,” Chaudhary added.

Besides these initiatives, FSSAI-Western Region authorities person besides provided hands-on grooming to much than 3000 Vendors connected Food Safety and hygiene nether the programme `Swachha Aahar Sankalp’ astatine Nagpur and Mumbai. “We person besides launched a programme aimed astatine empowering women successful India. The Connect strategy is peculiarly tailored to the needs and objectives of nutrient businesses, owned and operated by SHG women. This strategy serves arsenic a strategical model to heighten the livelihood and employability prospects of these women by mounting up ‘kitchens’ hence a ‘Dabba Service’ and ensuring adherence to steadfast practices and compliance with nutrient information standards,” Chaudhary said.

Pune, Daund railway stations among 10 Eat Right Stations

Recently, Pune, Shivajingar, Chinchwad, and Daund were among 10 railway stations that were designated arsenic Eat Right Stations by the FSSAI and Food and Drug Administration FDA. Suresh Annapure, Joint Commissioner, Food, FDA- Pune part said that 10 railway stations person been designated arsenic Eat Right Stations aft a associated workout with FSSAI. The certification is for 2 years and besides includes Sainagar Shirdi railway station, Ahilyanagar railway station, Satara railway station, Miraj railway presumption and Kolhapur railway station. “Training is provided to nutrient vendors to adhere to harmless and hygienic cooking and handling practices,”Annapure added.