Food Safety Standard Authority India Rules and Regulations for Packaged Drinking water
Name of the Speaker: Dr. Yashavanth Kumar GS
Title of the Seminar: Food Safety Standard Authority India Rules and Regulations for Packaged Drinking water
Date and Time: 28 February 2023 (Tuesday), 4:00pm
Online Platform: MS Teams (link to the video of the seminar)
About the Speaker: Dr. Yashavanth Kumar G S is the Chief Chemist at the Central Chemical Lab, Bangalore. He is a passionate communicator on the Food Safety and Standard act and Food Adulteration Concepts. He has published more than 13 Research articles in reputed peer-reviewed journals and presented research papers in various national/international conference proceedings. He was awarded the Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship (2009-13) from University Grant Commission (UGC), New Delhi. He has a Ph.D in Chemistry (2014) from Kuvempu University, and has collaborations with IISc Bangalore. His research interests are Nanotechnology, Solar Cells and Food Chemistry.
Abstract: Packaged drinking water is both a need and a necessity in a country like India where most of the freshwater resources have a high contamination levels. We all are aware of multiple brands providing packaged drinking water, but are they following some standards and what are they? In this talk the regulations on packaged drinking water by the Food Safety Standard Authority of India (FSSI) will be discussed. More specifically:
- What are FSSI rules and regulations, how it works.
- Guidelines for packaged drinking water and what are the water quality parameters.
- FSSAI amended certain conditions for packaged drinking water. What are they?
Date/Time
Date(s) - 28/02/2023
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
