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‘Eat Right Movement’
Why in the news ?
- Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) unveiled ‘The Eat Right Movement’, built on two broad pillars of ‘Eat Healthy’ and ‘Eat Safe’.
Details
- The programme aims to engage and enable citizens to improve their health and wellbeing by making the right food choices.
- Food industry, public health professionals, civil society and consumer organisations, and influencers and celebrities came together to pledge concrete steps to create ‘The Eat Right Movement’ in the country.
- FSSAI CEO said the movement can grow organically as a self perpetuating movement, co-owned and coled by various partners using the broad framework and resources put together by professionals and experts in the field of food and nutrition.
- Stating that its aim was to cut down salt/sugar and oil consumption by 30% in three years he said that 15 major food manufactures have already joined the programme.
- The FSSAI, he said, “is looking at robust food labelling and cleaning up the claims space.”
Source
The Hundu