Addressing the session Chandramouli called on industry bodies and
industries to partner in the implementation agenda of FSSAI across the
country through a collaborative effort and drew attention to the fact
that safety in street food was a concern and needed focussed attention.
NEW DELHI: Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) distributed it's CII National Award for Food Safety 2012 to Cargill India Pvt Ltd, Kutch, Gujarat for it's outstanding performance in food safety excellence - manufacturing business. The award was conferred by K Chandramouli, Chairman of Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) recently.
Addressing the session Chandramouli called on industry bodies and industries to partner in the implementation agenda of FSSAI across the country through a collaborative effort and drew attention to the fact that safety in street food was a concern and needed focussed attention.
On this occasion, Chandramouli launched the CII-FACE (Confederation of Indian Industries - Food and Agriculture Centre for Excellence) & IIT Certified Food Professional Course at the Awards function by releasing the brochure.
Meetu Kapur, executive director CII - FACE elaborated on the course saying that it was a proud moment for CII FACE to launch this novel program where CII FACE and IIT Kharagpur have come together to raise the standards of the Indian Food & Agriculture industry to global standards- stated a release by CII.
The existing lacunae and the growing demand of food safety and quality professionals by small and medium enterprises, with first-hand knowledge on benchmark practical laboratory techniques, food science, manufacturing hygiene and quality and food safety systems were identified through the CII FACE surveys.
This All in One Course for Facilitators was designed with 3 weeks Residential course at the state of art technology environment of IIT Kharagpur, 5 weeks e- learning and 1 month industry project.
Earlier , in his Welcome address, Rakesh Bharti Mittal stated that the Award program was an endeavour by CII towards capacity building of the Food Sector by involving the Industry in the assessment process. With the aim of encouraging participation from various food sectors and sizes, customised assessment criteria, catering to Small, Medium and Large scale industries in Food
Manufacturing , Hotels, Restaurants, Eateries, Canteens and Food Retail Stores have been made available under the specific models of assessment. Apart from an opportunity to receive national recognition, the take aways for each Applicant unit is an external perspective on their practices and performance in the form of a detailed feedback report .
Therefore, organizations at different levels of implementation can benefit from participating in the award process to understand where they currently stand on these practices and identify improvement opportunities and benchmarks.
Mittal pointed out that despite the challenging and stringent demands of the model, there has been 100% increase in participation in the Award applications this year with about 50% applications coming from the SMB sector. He hoped that industry would come forward to enhance participation and take part in this capacity building initiatives to raise their standards to world class levels.
The Food Safety Award program has helped CII-FACE reach out to organisations, their suppliers and co-packers across the 4 regions in cities and far flung locations like Vemagiri, New Jalpaiguri, Zaheerabad, Kandla, Haldwani, Sonepat, Bidadi, Haridwar, Gandhinagar, Bangalore Rural and others.
NEW DELHI: Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) distributed it's CII National Award for Food Safety 2012 to Cargill India Pvt Ltd, Kutch, Gujarat for it's outstanding performance in food safety excellence - manufacturing business. The award was conferred by K Chandramouli, Chairman of Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) recently.
Addressing the session Chandramouli called on industry bodies and industries to partner in the implementation agenda of FSSAI across the country through a collaborative effort and drew attention to the fact that safety in street food was a concern and needed focussed attention.
On this occasion, Chandramouli launched the CII-FACE (Confederation of Indian Industries - Food and Agriculture Centre for Excellence) & IIT Certified Food Professional Course at the Awards function by releasing the brochure.
Meetu Kapur, executive director CII - FACE elaborated on the course saying that it was a proud moment for CII FACE to launch this novel program where CII FACE and IIT Kharagpur have come together to raise the standards of the Indian Food & Agriculture industry to global standards- stated a release by CII.
The existing lacunae and the growing demand of food safety and quality professionals by small and medium enterprises, with first-hand knowledge on benchmark practical laboratory techniques, food science, manufacturing hygiene and quality and food safety systems were identified through the CII FACE surveys.
This All in One Course for Facilitators was designed with 3 weeks Residential course at the state of art technology environment of IIT Kharagpur, 5 weeks e- learning and 1 month industry project.
Earlier , in his Welcome address, Rakesh Bharti Mittal stated that the Award program was an endeavour by CII towards capacity building of the Food Sector by involving the Industry in the assessment process. With the aim of encouraging participation from various food sectors and sizes, customised assessment criteria, catering to Small, Medium and Large scale industries in Food
Manufacturing , Hotels, Restaurants, Eateries, Canteens and Food Retail Stores have been made available under the specific models of assessment. Apart from an opportunity to receive national recognition, the take aways for each Applicant unit is an external perspective on their practices and performance in the form of a detailed feedback report .
Therefore, organizations at different levels of implementation can benefit from participating in the award process to understand where they currently stand on these practices and identify improvement opportunities and benchmarks.
Mittal pointed out that despite the challenging and stringent demands of the model, there has been 100% increase in participation in the Award applications this year with about 50% applications coming from the SMB sector. He hoped that industry would come forward to enhance participation and take part in this capacity building initiatives to raise their standards to world class levels.
The Food Safety Award program has helped CII-FACE reach out to organisations, their suppliers and co-packers across the 4 regions in cities and far flung locations like Vemagiri, New Jalpaiguri, Zaheerabad, Kandla, Haldwani, Sonepat, Bidadi, Haridwar, Gandhinagar, Bangalore Rural and others.
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