Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 13: The Food Safety wing of Drug and Food Control Organization (DFCO) today organized a campaign cum drive on ‘zero hunger’– a sustainable food environment.
The program was inaugurated by Ramesh Chander, Additional Deputy Commissioner Jammu, who encouraged all the participants to avoid food wastage and also narrated the importance of sustainable food environment with the theme ‘No to food waste’.
Presenting welcome address, Dr Parvesh Kumar, Assistant Commissioner Food Safety (Municipal Limits, Jammu) briefed the participants on sustainable food environment. He said we can achieve ‘zero hunger’ by minimizing food waste and curb down hunger amongst poor and needy in Jammu city with focus on five important ways— care, aware, share, prepare and declare.
Elaborating more, he said that we can help minimize food wastage across the supply chain by means of redistribution to poor and needy. At the same time, he said, we can mobilize people to minimize their food wastage through widespread awareness program across the Jammu by Food Recovery Agencies. He said there is need to make a strategic and regulatory policy on minimizing food wastage and identify food donors such as hoteliers, restaurants, marriage banquets, dhabawalas etc.
“We can also achieved the objective by facilitating safe distribution of surplus food by connecting trained food recovery agencies such as NGOs, social activists, volunteers, etc with food chains and educate the food business operators on best practices and also encourage them to adopt the same in order to prevent food loss along the supply chain,” Dr Parvesh said.
The programme concluded with a food donation drive during which cooked food was offered by volunteers, caterers and social activists, and the same was distributed among poor and needy in Jammu City.
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