With the country is witnessing a large number of food poisoning cases among students having mid-day meals, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) organised a meeting and training session of over 300 women from self-help groups at the Rajiv Gandhi E-learning school in Sahakarnagar, last weekend.
On Tuesday evening, Shashikant Kekare, joint commissioner (FDA), along with Guruvinder Bindra, chairman of Bindra’s Hospitality and celebrity style chef, Shailendra Kekade, addressed a press conference to enlist the programmes undertaken under the Mission Safe Food campaign started by FDA.
The mission envisages to ensure that all food business operators in the city are well trained on sanitary and hygienic practices, with respect to handling food.
“For our first programme, we have got an amazing response. With the innumerable instances of food poisoning happening all across the nation, this has been a step in eradicating the problem from the root. We will be organising a programme every week, which will gradually take us closer to our aim of educating each and every food handler in the city to main sanitation and hygiene, right from the time of acquiring raw materials to the time of storage and consumption,” said Kekare.
The women were taught how to pick up good quality vegetables and grains to ensure that the school children get good quality food. Besides, the basic things like how to wash hands before handling the food so that there is no chance of getting the food contaminated were taught. “While interacting with these women, we also realised that most of the times, it is not the hygiene aspect of the people making the food that results in food poisoning. Instead, the water available in the schools or such things could cause poisoning,” said Bindra, adding that they will also be training the office bearers and principals of the schools to ensure that these aspects are taken care of.
Star chef to promote the campaign
The conference also formally announced that it will rope in star chef Shailendra Kekade as the brand ambassador of the Mission Safe Food campaign. “This will help boost the campaign. Having such a brand ambassador will make us reach the targeted lot,” Kekare added.
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