CSIR-CFTRI Demonstrates Detection of Adulteration in Oil, Spices, Sweets, Milk – Food Marketing Technology

CSIR-CFTRI demonstrated adulteration detection in edible oils, spice products, sweets, milk, honey etc. in an effort to ensure total food safety. This was through the use of analytical instruments used by food safety laboratories such as EA-IRMS, LC-MS/MS, GC, HPLC, GC-MS/MS, ICP-AES.

The institute also houses the Department of Food Safety and Preservation. Its dual focus is on food safety and infection control. The second is on the Food Safety and Analytical Quality Control Laboratory.

In the recently concluded World Food Safety Day 2023 celebrations, which is observed annually on June 7, this year’s theme was Food Standards Save Lives. In view of this, CSIR-Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore, a constituent laboratory of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India, celebrated the event in its campus for the benefit of the students.
Here CSIR-CFTRI created awareness among people about food safety, foodborne diseases ranging from diarrhea to cancer and deaths due to unsafe food.

It was the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (UN FAO) that worked together to declare June 7 as Food Safety Day. This was to highlight that food safety is an important global concern as unsafe food can lead to foodborne illnesses, which can have serious health consequences. Every year, World Food Safety Day focuses on a specific theme to address various aspects of food safety.

Demonstrations on food hygiene and microbial safety were also organized. Also, posters on food regulation, food labeling and nutritional labelling, food adulteration and contaminants were also displayed. More than 150 students from various colleges participated in the event, which included students from St. Philomena’s College, JSS College, Gyanodaya PU College and Mysore.

Dr. Naveen Kumar Rastogi, Chief Scientist and Director-in-Charge, CSIR-CFTRI formally inaugurated the event and addressed the gathering on the importance and awareness of World Food Safety Day 2023, its importance and its benefits to the society.

Arrangements were made at the Department of Food Safety and Analytical Quality Control Laboratory of CSIR-CFTRI to celebrate World Food Safety Day on 7th June, 2023. Scientists, technologists, scholars and research students conducted demonstrations to detect adulteration in edible oils. spice products, sweets, milk, honey and so on.