‘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





Posted by Jawwad Kazi on 11th Jul 2018