At a recent meeting held at the FSSAI headquarters at New Delhi which was attended by over 70 representatives from leading e-commerce platforms, the CEO FSSAI Mr. G.K. Vardhana Rao told the representatives that any non-compliance with food safety protocols will be viewed with utmost seriousness, potentially leading to severe action. The focus of the meeting was to strengthen food safety and hygiene practices throughout the entire e-commerce food supply chain. During the deliberations, Rao issued several crucial directives to the e-commerce platforms. He directed all e-commerce entities to prominently display their FSSAI licence/ registration numbers on every receipt, invoice, and cash memo provided to consumers. They were also asked to display information regarding the Food Safety Connect App on all consumer facing documents. A key emphasis was also placed on the necessity for e-commerce entities to disclose comprehensive details of all warehouses and storage facilities linked to their operations on the FoSCoS portal. The possibility of displaying the “Date of Expiry/ Use By” for food products at the consumer interface was also discussed. All e-commerce platforms have been instructed to maintain strict adherence to hygiene and food safety protocols across all their warehouses and storage facilities; ensuring that photographs of these facilities are regularly uploaded on the FoSCoS portal (ICE NEW DELHI)

Fonte notizia: Economic Times