Food Safety - Inputs on Issues
Friends,
Earlier this year, we had initiated the subject of Food Safety. Below are the key issues as suggested by you. In light of the current events, kindly review them and list any additional issues or causes you can think of.
We would like to expedite this whitepaper and request actions that will drive sustainable change in the way Food Safety authorities function in India.
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
Earlier this year, we had initiated the subject of Food Safety. Below are the key issues as suggested by you. In light of the current events, kindly review them and list any additional issues or causes you can think of.
We would like to expedite this whitepaper and request actions that will drive sustainable change in the way Food Safety authorities function in India.
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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Please focus more on Adulteration. People used to buy lot of non-branded items like Jaggery, Pulses, Sugar, Wheat, Sugar, oil, bakery products, sweets and snacks items. But nothing is safe. (e.g) we all believe Jaggery is 100% sugarcane juice and its rich in iron. But how many of them know that 75% of Jaggery is Sugar. Have seen some of the villagers who preparing jaggery in their place. more
Jun 14
The Food Safety Act is now enacted in India.The act is basic step but the Consumers should start to check what they are eating or buying to eat for their Children or Family Members.The Health of our country is the Health of its citizen. The Mall nutritios food and Adultered FOOD is the main cause of illness and DEATH. So we have to make any compramase in this matter. Now we are hearing about MAGGI NOODLES.It is banned. But the Advertisements are now also screening. The Products are reaching in The Market.THE MOthers are worrying what will they give to their children.Mothers are not thinking "MOTHER PREPARED FOOD IS THE MOST VALUABLE FOOD". So we to make a BEHAVIUR change to any reason the best food is MOTHER PREPARED FOOD>The children should be awared and educated that they have to look and ascertain that the prints in the packet including Date Of manufacturing and Quality,Nutritious value.etc.The infants FOOD , And all Company products including local Products ALSO STRICTLY CHECKED and MONITORED for the future of our country. more
Jun 08
21. lunch at schools must be made clean, safe and healthy: There is little checks and control over food given to children in schools. In many places the storage is dirty, kitchen unhygienic, cooks are not trained, and the ingredients have not been inspected. Bad quality oil, too much salt, flies in food, and insects/mice droppings in the rice, dal, flour, etc. are common problems. Plus the cooks do not wash their hands with soap after using toilets. This is very dangerous. Even in some colleges the food is disgustingly dirty. more
Jun 08
The issues listed harming food safety are very reasonable and accurate. This evening TV was showing how coloured and other adulterated food are supplied in trains. Branded harmful fast food like Kurkure should be banned with immediate effect. Why packed food from foreign countries should be allowed to enter the country when fresh food are available in the country? Why simple oats are to be imported when it grows aplenty here? Food safety is harmed by adulteration and corruption at all levels which has to be checked by all means with punishment. more
Jun 07
