Pawan Kumar Agarwal, CEO, FSSAI while inaugurating FICCI’s food service retail conclave ‘Foodzania 2017’ said “FSSAI License is mandatory for the sales of food product to ensure the health and safety of the consumers. Food Safety and Standards Act 2006, regulates, manufacture, storage, distribution, sale and import of food to promote health and safety of consumers. It governs people involved in any food business, whether manufacturing or selling and food business operators. These include shops, stalls, hotels, restaurants, airline services and food canteens, places or vehicles where any article of food is sold or manufactured or stored for sale.”
In his inaugural address, Mr. Agarwal said “FSSAI is keen to further simplify the compliance processes with active industry support and consultation. He, however, added that it is mandatory for all food businesses – caterers, manufacturers, companies transporting food items and retail outlets with 25 or more people handling food to have at least one trained ‘food safety supervisor’. The supervisor should be trained under the Food Safety Training and Certification Programme (FoSTaC), designed by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI). The supervisors would be responsible for ensuring that food quality is maintained.”
Further, Agarwal highlighted the need for the intended engagements from the industry side to protect and ensure the trust of consumers in the food that they intake. He added that display of the food licences in the hotel/restaurant premises is an ideal way to go forward. FSSAI is keen to rate the food business operators (FBO’s) through ‘Hygiene Varity Factors’ and will allocate start ratings to the restaurants and eating places out of six on the basis of certain factors including hygiene awareness, safety processes etc.
Unnat Varma, Managing Director, Pizza Hut Indian Sub-Continent & Chairperson, FICCI Food Service Retail Taskforce said “in the progressive Indian society, food expenditures hold a lot of prominence, constituting the largest retail consumption category. In fact, the Indian food retail industry is positioned globally as the sixth-largest and has been increasing at a steady pace of over 20 per cent annually. Owing to this reason, the food services industry in the country has witnessed unprecedented growth over the past few years, contributing a significant proportion to India’s economic performance. “
Saurabh Kochhar, CEO, Foodpanda & Chairperson, FICCI Food Service Retail Taskforce, said “Foodzania is the initiative by FICCI Food Service Retail Task Force which was formed to address the issues faced by the stakeholders in the sector. The Indian F&B sector is poised to witness a sea change. The recent times have seen significant discussions in this sector, which has led to a major reform of allowing FDI in multi-brand Retail in India. This is anticipated to bring some game changing impact on the modern retail sector in India and Nation at large. It is not a one stop solution to address the challenges of this huge Industry. Various issues like Infrastructure bottlenecks, multiple laws and regulations, skill gap etc. still remains a key concern and we aim to deliberate on these ground realities. We all know that F&B sector is one of the more matured industry in India. Huge consumer base in India provides numerous opportunities for every player to exist and operate successfully in this sector. The industry being deeply connected with our day to day lives holds the responsibility of serving their consumers most effectively with best quality and prices. FSSAI, has always been at forefront in facilitating the investments in the F&B sector and I trust Industry would provide full support to the Government in achieving this task together.”
Further, Kochchar said “Government has allowed 100% FDI for trading including through e-commerce, in respect of food products manufactured or produced in India. 100% FDI is already permitted in manufacturing of food products through automatic route. This will provide impetus to the foreign investment in food processing sector, benefit farmers immensely and will create vast employment opportunities. This has enhanced investment opportunities in India globally and have generated interest among the leading world food retailers for making investment in India. I am confident that this conference will come forward with new ideas that will boost the growth of the F & B sector, at the same time, enhance consumers’ welfare. “
On the occasion, Mr. Agarwal with other dignitaries launched the FICCI-Technopak report ‘Indian Food Services Industry: Engine for Economic Growth & Employment- A Roadmap for Unlocking Growth’, which highlights the overall potential of the food service in India and captures the emerging trends in the industry. It also throws light upon the ease of doing business scenario in the industry. The report recommends key alterations required to stimulate the growth in the food service industry, helping the industry realize its true potential. A concerted and collaborative effort is made to suggest the next steps to address various issues faced by the industry.
इंडियन रेलवे केटरिंग एंड टूरीज्म कॉर्पोरेशन (IRCTC) ने निर्णय लिया है कि वे ज्यादा से ज्यादा नौ जगहों पर जल्द ही ग्रीन फील्ड बेस किचन स्थापित करेंगे। रसोई बनाने के लिए कानपुर, हजरत निजामुद्दीन, हावड़ा, राजेंद्र नगर पटना, सिकंदराबाद, विजयवाड़ा, चेन्नई एग्मोर, अहमदाबाद और रत्नागिरी की जगह चुनी गई हैं।
रेल राज्य मंत्री राजेन गोहेन ने कहा है, 'IRCTC इन जगहों पर ग्रीन फील्ड बेस किचन बनाने की योजना कर रहा है। नया किचन बनाने या पुराने किचन के रेनोवेशन के लिए IRCTC ने 2018-2019 के लिए 15 करोड़ के पूंजीगत व्यय का बजट रखा है।'
ग्राहकों का विश्वास जीतने और स्वच्छता बनाए रखने के लिए IRCTC ने रसोइयों की लाइव स्ट्रीमिंग शुरू कर दी है।
IRCTC ने अहमदाबाद, बालासोर, खड़गपुर, सेदहा, नोएडा, नई दिल्ली (जहां अभी कान चल रहा है), हावड़ा और राजेंद्र नगर पटना में भी आठ बेस किचन लॉन्च किए हैं।
The Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) has decided to soon establish Green Field Base Kitchens at as many as 9 locations. The locations selected for setting up these kitchens include Kanpur, Hazrat Nizamuddin, Howrah, Rajendra Nagar Patna, Secunderabad, Vijayawada, Chennai Egmore, Ahmadabad and Ratnagiri.
Rajen Gohain, Minister of State for Railways, said, "IRCTC is planning to set up Green Field Base Kitchens at the following locations. A budget target of capital expenditure Rs 15 crores has been set by IRCTC for 2018-19, for setting up new/renovation of existing kitchen/production unit."
In order to win customers' trust and the hygienic conditions that food is prepared in, IRCTC has further started live streaming of its kitchens.
IRCTC has also launched 8 base kitchens at Ahmadabad, Balasore, Kharagpur, Sealdah, Noida, New Delhi (under renovation), Howrah and Rajendra Nagar Patna.
In the latest report by Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), canteen store department (CSD) failed to generate and forward a monthly list of the food and liquor items to be tested at food laboratories, resulting in high risk of consumption of sub-standard quality items.
According to CAG, "CSD head office (HO) shortlisted only 520 items for testing against 956 food and liquor products procured. But out of shortlisted, only 448 were sent to the labs between August 2014 and March 2015.”
CAG report read, "It was observed that the labs which were in collaboration with CSD did not provide test report of quality of 281 food items and 91 liquor items. But out of the 76 test reports received, the Labs had declared 35 samples (46 per cent) as sub-standard."
Citing an example of King Fisher Beer referred to laboratory for testing in January 2014, by Area Depot Baghdogra (through Area Depot Delhi) which was found unfit for consumption, CAG said, “Stock worth Rs 8.43 lakh of the King Fisher Beer sub-standard batch was sold to the customers.”
In response to CAG report, Deputy Director General Canteen Services stated that “A proposal to enlist additional laboratories has been initiated, which will give out more detailed analysis.”
Though CAG expressed its displeasure and said, “Despite the assurance given by the MoD to the parliamentary action committee to increase the number of centres for testing of food & liquor items, Composite Food Laboratories (CFLs) were on the other hand reduced from six to three."
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