Cargill India, Kutch bags CII National Award for Food Safety 2012 in the Large Businesses Sector

CII: Oct 15, 2012Cargill India Pvt Ltd , Kutch, Gujarat has bagged the CII National Award for Food Safety 2012 forOutstanding Performance in Food Safety Excellence – Manufacturing Business: Large. The Award was given away by Mr K Chandramouli, Chairman, FSSAI at the Food Safety and Quality Summit organized by CII in the capital.Addressing the Session Mr Chandramouli called on Industry bodies and industries to partner in the implementation agenda of FSSAI across the country through a collaborative effort and drew attention to the fact that Safety in Street Food was a concern and needed focussed attention. Mr Chandramouli lauded the CII FACE initiative on the proposal of moving the industry towards self regulation by efforts towards institutionalising a Quality Mark.

On this occasion, Mr Chandramouli launched the CII-FACE & IIT Certified Food Professional Course at the Awards function by releasing the brochure.

Ms Meetu Kapur, Executive Director CII - FACE elaborated on the course saying that it was a proud moment for CII FACE to launch this novel program where CII FACE and IIT Kharagpur have come together to raise the standards of the Indian Food & Agriculture industry to global standards. The existing lacunae and the growing demand of Food safety and quality professionals by Small and Medium Enterprises, with first-hand knowledge on benchmark practical laboratory techniques, food science, manufacturing hygiene and quality and food safety systems were identified through the CII FACE surveys and interactions with the SME Food sector . This All in One Course for Facilitators was designed with 3 weeks Residential course at the state of art technology environment of IIT Kharagpur, 5 weeks e- learning and 1 month industry project.

Earlier , in his Welcome address, Mr Rakesh Bharti Mittal stated that the Award program was an endeavour by CII towards capacity building of the Food Sector by involving the Industry in the assessment process. With the aim of encouraging participation from various food sectors and sizes, customised assessment criteria, catering to Small, Medium and Large scale industries in Food Manufacturing , Hotels, Restaurants, Eateries, Canteens and Food Retail Stores have been made available under the specific models of assessment. Apart from an opportunity to receive national recognition, the take aways for each Applicant unit is an external perspective on their practices and performance in the form of a detailed feedback report . Therefore, organizations at different levels of implementation can benefit from participating in the award process to understand where they currently stand on these practices and identify improvement opportunities and benchmarks. Mr Mittal pointed out that despite the challenging and stringent demands of the model, there has been 100% increase in participation in the Award applications this year with about 50% applications coming from the SMB sector. He hoped that industry would come forward to enhance participation and take part in this capacity building initiatives to raise their standards to world class levels.

The Food Safety Award program has helped CII-FACE reach out to organisations, their suppliers and co-packers across the 4 regions in cities and far flung locations like Vemagiri, New Jalpaiguri, Zaheerabad, Kandla, Haldwani, Sonepat, Bidadi, Haridwar, Gandhinagar, Bangalore Rural and many others.

Summarised below are the Recognition Winners in different levels of CII National Award for Food Safety 2012.

Award for Outstanding Performance in Food Safety Excellence

Cargill India Pvt Ltd , Kutch, Gujarat for Manufacturing Business: Large.

Commendation Certificate for Significant Achievement in Food Safety

Perfetti Van Melle India Pvt Ltd, Chennai : Manufacturing Business: Large Sri Sarvaraya Sugars Ltd, Bottling Unit (Vemagiri) :Manufacturing Business: Medium Commendation Certificate for Strong Commitment to Excel in Food Safety

Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Pvt Ltd, Atmakuru : Manufacturing Business: Large Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Pvt Ltd, Bidadi : Manufacturing Business: Large ITC Ltd, Haridwar – Foods Plant : Manufacturing Business: Large Global Green Company, Zaheerabad : Manufacturing Business: Medium Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Pvt Ltd, Raninagar : Manufacturing Business: Medium Jubilant Food Works Ltd, Domino’s Pizza - Kailash Colony: Food Service: Small Eateries Jubilant Food Works Ltd, Domino’s Pizza – Rajouri Gardens: Food Service: Small Eateries Letter of Appreciation

ACME Foods, Haldwani : Category Rising Star (Less than 3 years in business)

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