About EAT RIGHT INDIA
Inspired by the focus on preventive and promotive healthcare in the National Health Policy 2017 and flagship programmes like Ayushman Bharat, POSHAN Abhiyaan and Swacch Bharat Mission, the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has embarked on a large-scale effort to transform the country’s food system in order to ensure safe, healthy and sustainable food for all Indians through the ‘Eat Right India’ movement.
Eat Right India aims to transform India’s food safety and nutrition environment through a judicious mix of regulatory, capacity building, collaborative and empowerment approaches, thereby protecting and advancing public health and improve the quality of life across all walks of life. The tagline ‘Sahi Bhojan. Behtar Jeevan’ thus forms the foundation of this movement. The Eat Right India movement is based on three key themes/pillars – Eat Safe, Eat Healthy, and Eat Sustainable. Along with traditional regulatory actvities to ensure safe, healthy and sustainable food for all, it also focuses on capacity building and social and behaviour change for all stakeholders viz. food businesses as well as consumers.
EAT RIGHT CAMPUS
In order to ensure safe, healthy and sustainable food for all citizens wherever they are, Eat Right India has taken a ‘settings-based’ approach, with specific programmes for workplaces, schools, eating out etc.
As a part of Eat Right India, the Eat Right Campus initiative has been launched for colleges, universities, institutions, workplaces, hospitals, jails and tea estates to support them to ensure safe, healthy and sustainable food for the people who spend the majority of their time in these campuses.
BENEFITS OF EAT RIGHT CAMPUS
While the Eat Right Campus initiative is not mandatory to adopt, it can provide immense benefits to the campus and the individuals in the campus not only in terms of health but also economics. Safe, healthy and sustainable food in the campus would reduce the incidence of food borne illnesses, deficiency diseases and non-communicable diseases among the people in the campus. This means less absenteeism and loss of working hours and greater wellbeing, motivation and productivity of people. This would also reduce the burden of healthcare costs for the workplace, institution, hospital, jail or tea estate. All these factors would ultimately result in economic benefits to the campus. In addition, being recognized as an Eat Right Campus would increase the prestige and brand value of the campus, making it attractive for prospective students, employees etc. Last but not the least, this would also inspire other campuses to promote safe, healthy and sustainable food, thus resulting in the overall development of the country.
CERTIFICATION PROCESS
Once enrolled in this Programme, a campus first undergoes a self-assessment or a third-party audit by an FSSAI empaneled agency based on this checklist to identify gaps and areas of improvement. The campus administration then takes steps to address these gaps. A critical step of this process includes training of Food Safety Supervisors and food handlers in the campus through FSSAI’s Food Safety Training and Certification (FoSTaC) Programme. Once these improvements are made, the campus undergoes a third-party audit by the same FSSAI-empaneled agency and is given a rating on a five-star scale.
If a campus scores three or more stars, it is certified as an ‘Eat Right Campus’. The certification is valid for two years. In order to ensure that these best practices continue, the campus appoints a nodal person to oversee these efforts. Food Safety Department or audit agencies may carry out regular inspections to ensure quality control until the certification is renewed.
Rating of the Campus
Each campus is evaluated based on a TOTAL score out of 100. The Rating of the campus is as follows-
Evaluation of the Campus
The evaluation of the campus is based on the master checklist.
- Part A: Safe Food
- Part B: Healthy Food
- Part C: Sustainable Food
- Part D: Building Awareness
- Safe Food – 40
- Healthy Food- 25
- Sustainable Food- 10
- Building Awareness- 25
EAT RIGHT SCHOOL
FSSAI has taken up a series of initiatives to transform India’s food safety and nutrition landscape by ensuring availability and consumption of safe food and healthy diets by its citizens. Eat Right School programme aims at creating awareness about food safety, nutrition & hygiene among school children, and through them among the community at large. Children are powerful change agents. Messages delivered to, and through children, have the potential to usher in behavioural change and a culture of safe and wholesome food. Since, food habits are developed early in life, adequate coverage of food and nutrition both in curriculum and extracurricular activities at the school level is essential.
IMPLEMENTATION OF EAT RIGHT SCHOOL
In order to spread the awareness, it is imperative that schools participate actively in the Eat Right School initiative.
ONLINE SCHOOL REGISTRATION PORTAL
ONLINE SCHOOL REGISTRATION PORTAL
HEALTH AND WELLNESS AMBASSADORS (HWA)
HEALTH AND WELLNESS AMBASSADORS (HWA)
EAT RIGHT ACTIVITIES:
EAT RIGHT ACTIVITIES
MONITORING AND EVALUATION
MONITORING AND EVALUATION
EAT RIGHT SCHOOL CERTIFICATION
EAT RIGHT SCHOOL CERTIFICATION
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