Food safety audit in IITs IIMs AIIMS ordered by FSSAI

Food safety audit in IITs, IIMs, AIIMS ordered by FSSAI

Keeping in mind various complaints with regards to the food safety and hygiene standards, the Food regulator FSSAI has ordered the safety audit of the canteens at the 10 large educational institutes, including the IITs, IIMs and AIIMS.FSSAI said "the audit will be done by empanelled 15 agencies, which will be given one month to submit their report. The audit has been ordered as a number of cases of food safety issues have been reported from hostels and canteens of various academic institutions in India." “In view of this, the FSSAI has ordered special food safety audits of the canteens, cafeterias, hostel mess etc of 10 select large central institutes of higher education like IIT (Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Guwahati), AIIMS (Delhi and Jodhpur), IIM (Ahmedabad and Kozhikode), IISc Bangalore and IISER Kolkata,” the FSSAI said in a statement. The audits in the select 10 institutes will help in finding whether the food safety and hygiene standards followed by these institutions comply with the safety and hygiene standards prescribed under the food safety law. “These reports will give an insight into the existing standards of food safety and hygiene of these canteens, hostel mess etc. and will help the FSSAI identify the gaps,” the authority said.The FASSI expects that the results of these audits will serve as guide for these institutions and will further help them in maintaining and improving the safety and hygiene standards of the food. For inspection, FASSI has empaneled national and international agencies like DNV, Bureau Veritas, Intertek, MS Certification, IRCLASS, SGS, BIS, TUV and Indocert, among others. “For the time being, these agencies have been provisionally empanelled since the regulation is still at a draft stage,” the FSSAI said.

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