FDA to implement 100-Day Action Plan for Food Safety

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has decided to effectively implement a 100-day action plan to ensure that people get healthy, pure food. Accordingly, milk and milk products inspection campaigns, food safety training for food businessmen, cleanliness rating for hotels, restaurants, Eat Right campus certification and Eat Right prayer places in religious places will be implemented in the state.

Under the 100-day action plan implemented by the Food and Drug Administration, efforts will be made to ensure that citizens get good food. For this, free training on food safety will be given to the food businessmen and they will be given 'Food Safety Training and Certificate'. Similarly, hotels, restaurants, sweetmarts, bakery shops, mutton shops will be inspected and those who fulfill the food safety criteria will be given cleanliness rating certificate based on the score.

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Food security will be ensured by conducting Eat Right Campus campaign for employees and visitors in government, semi-government, private institutions, colleges, universities etc. Food and Drug Administration informed that all the religious places will be given the Eat Right Place of Worship certificate after quality inspection of prasad in temples, langar in gurdwara and other religious places.

Under this initiative, the Food and Drug Administration has set a target of imparting food safety training to 6,000 food professionals in five districts namely Thane, Palghar, Raigad, Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg. At the same time, Eat Right campuses will be established in 40 government and semi-government institutions. 10 important religious places in these five districts will be given the Eat Right Place of Worship certificate in the first phase. Food and Drug Administration Joint Commissioner (Food) Shrikant Karkale said that it will be ensured that the prasad that the devotees will get at the religious places will be appropriate.