Food Safety in India - Inputs on Solutions
Friends,
Please review the key Root Causes and Issues as highlighted by you below and help us identify specific action oriented Solutions to these. Given the current events, we would like to drive actions from the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, FSSAI and any other bodies so the Food Safety system of India is overhauled and the process begins immediately.
Please provide your inputs TODAY as we would like t expedite this whitepaper for action.
Food Safety in India – Root Causes
1. Retailers/manufacturers try to make more profits by adulterating food material
2. Big food manufacturers do not want to spend big amounts to put standards in place for manufacturing
3. Food manufacturers bribe the food inspectors to get work done in their favour
4. Government food safety and evaluation techniques are outdated and lack the latest knowledge
5. Food manufacturers intentionally ignore the FSSAI guidelines
6. FSSAI is a not a driven organization by its virtue
7. Food safety bodies lack systems, processes and controls
8. Companies value profit over health of people
9. It is very easy to bribe the food inspectors to get away with offences
10. Government bodies have no control over road side vendors
11. Restaurants do not pay too much attention to the cleanliness of the kitchens since they are not visible to the customers
12. In many cases, small vendors are not even aware that they are using adulterated raw material
13. Retailers try to reduce losses by reprinting expiry date on products and selling them
14. People are not encouraged to report adulteration in food items
15. Even if a customer wants to report issues of food safety, he does not know where to call
16. No periodic checks/raids are done by the Food department to catch the offenders.
Food Safety in India – Key Issues
1. Harmful food colours are added to food
2. Big food manufacturers do not follow complete safety standards
3. High levels of MSG and lead are common in packaged products
4. Corruption in Food Safety/Approval bodies is common practice
5. Government food safety evaluation techniques, processes and controls are broken
6. Roadside vendors and small food shops do not prepare the food hygienically, bacteria of human excreta is common in street food
7. Kitchens of many restaurants are dirty with rodents running around
8. In small food plants, the food is prepared under unhealthy conditions
9. Food handlers don’t use gloves while touching the food
10. Adulterated raw material is used to prepare food
11. Fake products of certain brands are being sold openly in markets
12. Fruits are injected with chemicals to make them taste better
13. Rotting chicken is sold to unsuspecting people in restaurants
14. On many packed food items, the sellers modify the expiry date to reduce their losses
15. Shopkeepers knowingly buy batches of expired items at low cost so that they could earn big profits
16. Vendors mix urea in milk
17. Roadside vendors cook the food once and sell it for days
18. A very high level of pesticide contamination is found in vegetables, fruits but also in other food items like food grains, pulses, onions, potatoes
19. Meat/Poultry storage standards not maintained by all
20. The folks serving/selling food in India are ignorant or just care about earning their bucks. more
Please review the key Root Causes and Issues as highlighted by you below and help us identify specific action oriented Solutions to these. Given the current events, we would like to drive actions from the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, FSSAI and any other bodies so the Food Safety system of India is overhauled and the process begins immediately.
Please provide your inputs TODAY as we would like t expedite this whitepaper for action.
Food Safety in India – Root Causes
1. Retailers/manufacturers try to make more profits by adulterating food material
2. Big food manufacturers do not want to spend big amounts to put standards in place for manufacturing
3. Food manufacturers bribe the food inspectors to get work done in their favour
4. Government food safety and evaluation techniques are outdated and lack the latest knowledge
5. Food manufacturers intentionally ignore the FSSAI guidelines
6. FSSAI is a not a driven organization by its virtue
7. Food safety bodies lack systems, processes and controls
8. Companies value profit over health of people
9. It is very easy to bribe the food inspectors to get away with offences
10. Government bodies have no control over road side vendors
11. Restaurants do not pay too much attention to the cleanliness of the kitchens since they are not visible to the customers
12. In many cases, small vendors are not even aware that they are using adulterated raw material
13. Retailers try to reduce losses by reprinting expiry date on products and selling them
14. People are not encouraged to report adulteration in food items
15. Even if a customer wants to report issues of food safety, he does not know where to call
16. No periodic checks/raids are done by the Food department to catch the offenders.
Food Safety in India – Key Issues
1. Harmful food colours are added to food
2. Big food manufacturers do not follow complete safety standards
3. High levels of MSG and lead are common in packaged products
4. Corruption in Food Safety/Approval bodies is common practice
5. Government food safety evaluation techniques, processes and controls are broken
6. Roadside vendors and small food shops do not prepare the food hygienically, bacteria of human excreta is common in street food
7. Kitchens of many restaurants are dirty with rodents running around
8. In small food plants, the food is prepared under unhealthy conditions
9. Food handlers don’t use gloves while touching the food
10. Adulterated raw material is used to prepare food
11. Fake products of certain brands are being sold openly in markets
12. Fruits are injected with chemicals to make them taste better
13. Rotting chicken is sold to unsuspecting people in restaurants
14. On many packed food items, the sellers modify the expiry date to reduce their losses
15. Shopkeepers knowingly buy batches of expired items at low cost so that they could earn big profits
16. Vendors mix urea in milk
17. Roadside vendors cook the food once and sell it for days
18. A very high level of pesticide contamination is found in vegetables, fruits but also in other food items like food grains, pulses, onions, potatoes
19. Meat/Poultry storage standards not maintained by all
20. The folks serving/selling food in India are ignorant or just care about earning their bucks. more
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Customer care number is essential for taking complaints and action on it. Customer who complains about consumer should be protected by not releasing their name(because he needs to access the nearby shops regularly else he will be rejected). Identify the reason for a problem: Both good quality product and low quality product are of same cost. Quality is not maintained regularly. Initially at startup, they maintain the quality, and later it is not maintained. or Mixing the high quality and low quality in a ration of 75 to 25 or 60 to 40. so when claimed, they say it is not our product. Many product does not have their owner name and address. One single product produced in different areas, in different name, but the owner is single. their name should be available exactly in online. While taking action on such expired or no-quality product, the products are seized from the consumer, but they do not take action on the owner where they where produced, Is it a non traceable product where they where produced and packed and distributed? Always make a surprise visit for scrutinizing the vendors and producers. Provide protection and power to the inspection authorities to do their job rightfully. Make all the company product online., ie, any product and their details that i buy in retail should be available online. Until Bribe exists, we cannot change anything. Govt Staff should do their job for their salary, and not for bribe. more
Mar 04
STOP MAKING CORRUPT OUR OFFICIAL & LEADER.EVERY THING WILL FALL IN PLACE. REGARDS. AATMPRAKASH.VARANASI. On Monday, 8 June 2015 10:15 AM, Rajendra Pratap Gupta wrote: more
Jun 13
Solutions 1. All restaurants need to follow food safety norms for delivering cooked food or license should be cancelled. 2. Mire laboratory and more chemist needs to be build and appointed at every state to check food quality for even vegetables, packed food and cooked ones. 3. Railways, all flights and canteens of private as well as government offices need to follow safety norms or fined heftily. 4. Surprise visit by food inspector at local markets, shops, restaurant, hospital canteen, railway pantry, student hostel including the mid day meal cooking centre need to be made compulsory and for that adequate number of people needs to be appointed across all states for this purpose. 5. Lots of trainees with specific specialization in chemistry, nutrition can be taken straight from college for this. 6. The monitoring system should be centralized with regular report sending facility from all states. 7. It should be highly process driven and timeline based. Regards, Amrita Chowdhury more
Jun 12
