ICMR Seminar on 'Updating The Knowledge & Skills About Recent Advances In Nutrition

By 121 News Reporter

Chandigarh 24^th March:-- School of Public Health, PGI and Department of Foods and Nutrition Govt Home Science College Chandigarh organised an ICMR seminar on ‘Updating the knowledge and skills about recent advances in nutrition: Changing role of diet in 21st century in India’. The seminar was organized by Dr Ravneet Kaur , under the guidance and supervision of Dr Amarjeet Singh.  The participants comprised of Community Medicine residents and dieticians from Govt. Medical College Sector 32 and Govt. Multi Specialty Hospital Sector 16 -1, Faculty and students of Govt Home Science College Sector 10, Chandigarh Institute of Hotel Management Sector 42 and Selected food Business Operators form Chandigarh.  Approximately 100 participants attended.

.S Dave, Advisor FSSAI and Chairman Codex Alimentarius Commision attended the seminar as chief guest. Anil Kumar, Commissioner Food Safety and Home Secretary attended as a special guest to address the delegates about food safety issues. He brought out that with the increase in eating out culture of our society food safety has become an important concern. He emphasized that food safety is a shared responsibility which needs to be shared by all. 

Dr Nancy Sahini updated the audience on recent advances in renal nutrition. Dr Puja Dudeja discussed nanotechnology in food processing. Sukhwinder Singh, FSO, UT Chandigarh address issues related to licensing and registration of eating establishmentsApart from updating the participants on various aspects of diet and nutrition, the conference focused to bring all the relevant stakeholders who are dealing with food safety on one platform.