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White Paper on Integrated Food Chain Surveillance for Enhancing Food Safety- A Model Approach
2023
Safety of food and water is of paramount importance in the public health domain. Safety concerns include all those hazards which make food injurious to health. Specific of these food hazards are chemical and microbiological contaminants, biological toxins, pesticide residues, veterinary drug residues, and allergens.
It is important that a National Food Control System should be such that the consumer is protected from unsafe food. The integrated food chain surveillance system is being recognized as a holistic approach in various developed countries for controlling food safety risks across the entire food chain.
Keeping the aforesaid considerations in view the current White Paper on “Integrated Food Chain Surveillance for Enhancing Food Safety- A Model Approach” captures some of the critical areas of operation that need to be addressed holistically. The application, feasibility and usefulness of the Integrated Food Chain Surveillance system is explored from a developing country perspective including India through a review of literature and designing a “Model Activity Plan” of the integrated food chain surveillance in the Indian context.
The White Paper can be viewed at: https://tinyurl.com/2pzdruhb
Use of Probiotics for Nutritional Enrichment of Dairy Products
Functional Foods in Health and Disease – Open Access, 2022
The Review points out that though consumption of foods with healthy microbes is not new to the world, but preparing novel products with clinically tested Probiotics is more specific and reliable to give desired health attribute. Incorporation of Probiotics in different food matrices is therefore important. While Probiotic foods are generally dairy based they can be used in raw materials like Cereals, Pulses, Fruits, Vegetables, Tubers, Fish and Meat.
Updated the K-FFIG Data Resource Centre on Functional Foods , Gut Microbiome, Immunity and Health
NA, 2025
K-FFIG has recently updated an Online “Resource Center” with collection of 998 STUDIES published in Peer Reviewed journals from 2017 onward, on different aspects of Microbiome, health, Immunity and Functional Foods. The Access is Free.
For More Information Look at K-FFIG Data Resource Centre at: http://www.ilsi-india.org/kffig.htm
Status Paper on “Global Initiatives to Reduce Post-Harvest Food Losses and Waste” by ILSI India and ICAR-CIPHET
NA, 2024
This Paper is intended to create better understanding and highlights the recent technologies, innovative solutions (including e-commerce platforms for marketing, and mobile food processing systems), new ways of working, and good practices to manage food quality and reduce food loss and waste. This paper can serves as useful reference for scientific as well as social community, policy makers and researchers and provide guidance for developing new practices and will be useful for formulating strategies to check post-harvest loses and waste.
Report on Nutrition and Health for All (NAHA)
2022
This Report looks at current nutrition status of Indian population as indicated by National Surveys including NFHS-5 survey and lists strategies to tackle the problems of malnutrition and other nutrition related issues like non-communicable diseases.