All Heads of Institution Affiliated to CBSE Board : Observing Food Safety and Quality Day

The NCF 2005 on Health and Physical Education holds that Health is a critical input for the overall development of the child and it influences enrolment retention and school completion rates significantly. One of the major contributors to the health of a child is food quality and safety. Thus in envisaging suitable education as a right for every individual child, the importance of food safety and quality is rightly emphasized especially in the back drop of growing concerns over junk food and product adulteration.

Appropriately, therefore, the Ministry of Food Processing Industries is observing the year 2008-09 as Food Safety and Quality Year and 16th October, 2008 as “Food Safety and Quality Day”.

The entire student community along with the teachers and the parents need to be sensitized on the topic by creating awareness through seminars, workshops, essay writing competition, quiz. discussions and lectures.

Hence you are requested to organize the programmes as mentioned above on 16th october, 2008 at school level and detailed report in this regard may be sent to the undersigned.