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The food regulator of the country, Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), has unleashed a ‘Yellow Book’ to promote Safe and Nutritious Food among school going kids. The book provides age appropriate content which can be adopted across schools through State education machinery as part of their curricular and co-curricular activities.
The ‘Yellow Book’ covers topics such as good food safety practices, personal hygiene, and cleanliness habits, eating a balanced diet, packing a wholesome lunch box, preventing nutritional deficiencies and making healthy choices. It includes useful tips and interesting activities for school children. It can be used independently as a guide, as well as an activity book in conjunction with the existing curriculum in schools. It has been formulated after discussions, consultations and extensive engagement with various education boards such as CBSE, NCERT, State Boards, nutrition and education experts.
Habits inculcated in childhood create sustainable patterns of behavior and help to ensure a lifetime of healthy and safe food choices. Moreover, children can be powerful agents of change in society. FSSAI’s SNF (Safe and Nutritious Food) @School initiative is based on this philosophy. Over 100 representatives from central and state government, academia, school boards, voluntary organisations and corporates have joined hands towards a cohesive effort to build capacities of schools across the country for adopting SNF (safe and nutritious food) habits.
FSSAI also launched the ‘School Engagement Platform’, a portal that works as an online tool for schools to register and utilize resource material to undertake relevant activities for inculcating healthy food habits amongst children. Going forward, the portal would also provide an assessment framework to highlight ‘model schools’ that are pioneers in adopting the safe and nutritious school framework.
Dr. Vinod K. Paul, Member (Health), NITI Ayog launched The ‘Yellow Book’ along with Chairperson, FSSAI.The event witnessed participation from senior officials from the central ministries of Health and Family Welfare and state officials from various key organizations.
Ashish Bahuguna, Chairperson, FSSAI commented, “This holistic effort towards co-creating the culture of safe and wholesome food amongst schools with the support of education machinery would go a long way in preparing our children as real change agents. The efforts are centered around building a robust curriculum, framework for easy adoption using digital solutions, enhancing capabilities of teachers through training mechanism and connecting like-minded stakeholders through a common platform. This would ensure that the vital knowledge reaches to the entire target population so that we can together achieve the vision of safe and healthy schools in our country”.
Dr. Vinod Paul, in his special address, remarked, “Health should be a part of our responsibility as a society and as individuals. Schools are our natural partners in promoting health. The value and nobility behind this initiative is profound. I must congratulate the entire team at FSSAI.”