For safe foods there is a need to develop lab infrastructure in states. Justify this statement. (200 Words)
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KEY POINTS
· Food safety and consumer empowerment are areas in need of constant attention in India, where enforcement is often lax.
· But in this, Tamil Nadu deserves credit for finishing at the top among 17 large States for food safety; it was ranked third in the previous edition of the State Food Safety Index.
· That Tamil Nadu, with 82 marks, is ahead of Gujarat by 4.5 marks and Maharashtra by 12 marks, highlights its creditable showing.
· Developed by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), the Food Safety Index evaluates States and Union Territories on these parameters, apart from their size: human resources and institutional data; compliance; food testing infrastructure and surveillance; training and capacity building, and consumer empowerment.
· The State has performed marginally lower than what it did last year in ‘consumer empowerment’.
· Liberal assistance should be provided to the States and Union Territories as far as laboratory infrastructure and improvement of manpower, both technical and non-technical, are concerned.
· What every player in the field of food safety should realise is that each one has a critical role to play, and there has to be collective and well-coordinated action.
Aravind R 3 years
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Sathishkumar 3 years
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