BHUBANESWAR: The two-day seminar on “Emerging trends in food production and safety” that concluded here on Sunday strongly urged the State Government to implement the Food Safety Act and post a senior officer as Food Safety Commissioner. An officer, not less than the rank of Secretary, should be posted as the Food Safety Commissioner, the experts unanimously agreed at the end of the seminar which was addressed by Health Secretary Anu Garg. There was consensus that there is need for meeting food safety standardisation keeping in view the national and regional needs and inspection as well as surveillance programmes must be strengthened. Ensuring health surveillance effectively will make risk management decisions easy, the seminar concluded and called for systems on hazard analysis and critical control point system. The seminar was jointly organised by Institute of Quality and Environment Services Pvt Ltd, Rotary Club of Bhubaneswar Heritage and Institute of Hotel Management, Bhubaneswar.
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