World Food Safety Day activities

“Food safety involves everybody in the food chain.” -Mike Johann

Access to sufficient amounts of safe food is key to sustaining life and promoting good health. Food borne illnesses are usually infectious or toxic in nature and often invisible to the plain eye, caused by bacteria, viruses, parasites or chemical substances entering the body through contaminated food or water.

Keeping in mind food safety as a critical element at every stage of the food chain. The Indian School- Second Shift engaged in activities ranging from - understanding production to harvest, processing, storage, and distribution. Students of class 3 will extend helping hands to the needy by distributing clean and safe dry rations and fresh vegetables. It would thus also help ingrained the values of sharing and caring.

The significance of the occasion internationally was shared with the students of class 4. We hope that as future citizens of the world they will contribute in manifold ways to the cause of food security, human health, economic prosperity, agriculture, market access and sustainable development.

Students wrote and shared recipes of non-fire dishes made with leftover food, to promote no wastage of food. The students of class 5 made healthy and cooling drinks to keep themselves hydrated during the summer. They wrote the recipes of these alongwith the nourishment they contain. 

Contamination of food and its adulteration are some of the things we often read about but also easily forget about. Students took a pledge to observe World Food Safety Day by coming together and becoming more conscious about what they eat.