Mysore/Mysuru: FAO (Food and Agriculture Organisation) and WHO (World Health Organisation) have declared June 7 as World Food Safety Day-2023 with a tagline, “Food Standards Save Lives” to create awareness among population on food safety,  food-borne diseases such as diarrhoea to cancers and deaths due to unsafe food.

Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), Mysuru, a constituent laboratory of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India celebrated the event in its campus.

Dr. Navin Kumar Rastogi, Chief Scientist & Director-in Charge, CSIR-CFTRI, formally inaugurated the  event and spoke on the importance and awareness on World Food Safety Day, its significance and its benefits to the society.

Arrangements were made in the Department of Food Safety and Analytical Quality Control Laboratory of CSIR-CFTRI to celebrate the Day. Scientists, Technologists, Scholars and Research Students organised demonstration on detection of adulterants in edible oils, spice products, sweets, milk, honey etc. Use of analytical instruments used by food safety labs such as EA-IRMS, LC-MS/MS, GC, HPLC, GC-MS/MS, ICP-AES were exhibited.

Demonstration on food hygiene and microbial safety was also arranged. Posters on food regulation, food labelling and nutritional labelling, Food addition and contaminants too were exhibited.  More than 150 students from various Colleges including students from St. Philomena’s College, JSS College and Jnanodaya PU College participated.