ICAR-NDRI celebrates 97th Foundation Day
The 97th Foundation Day of ICAR-NDRI was celebrated on 1st July at SRS of ICARNDRI, Adugodi, Bengaluru under the aegis of Alumni Association, ICAR-NDRI (SRS), Bengaluru.
Prof Alok Dhawan, Director, CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research (IITR), Lucknow was the Chief Guest and Dr Suresh Honnappagol, Former Animal Husbandry Commissioner, Govt. of India, New Delhi was the Guest of Honour. Dr N. Balaraman, Former Joint Director (Res) ICAR-NDRI, Karnal and Former Vice-Chancellor, TANUVAS, Chennai, delivered Foundation Day Lecture. Dr K.P. Ramesha, Head, ICAR-NDRI & President Alumni Association presided over the function.
The Inaugural session was followed by the workshop on the theme “Quality assurance and safety of dairy products – an update on FSSAI Regulations”. The workshop inaugural address was delivered by Prof Alok Dhawan, who delineated the various activities and achievements of CSIR – IITR in the area of food safety which included ‘KsheerScanner’ a milk analyser for detection of adulterants.
Four speakers made presentations on various topics related to quality and safety of dairy products Viz., Mr Aditya Jain, Senior Manager, NDDB, Anand; Dr Alok Kumar Srivastava, Chief Scientist & Head Food Safety and Analytical Quality Control Lab, CFTRI, Mysore; Sri P. Muthumaran, Director, FSSAI Chennai Region and Dr M. Kannan, Deputy Director, FSSAI Southern Region, Chennai. This session was chaired by Dr N. Balaraman. The session followed a detailed interaction coupled with the Panel Discussion. Dr K.P. Ramesha chaired the Panel Discussion on the theme coordinated by Dr K. Jayaraj Rao, Organizing Secretary of the Workshop.