Coca-Cola offers hygiene training to India’s street food vendors

11th of April 2017
Coca-Cola offers hygiene training to India’s street food vendors

Street food vendors in India are to be trained in food safety and hygiene by US giant Coca Cola.

India's food regulating body has signed a pact with Coca Cola under which the multinational corporation will train 50,000 food vendors. The scheme is part of the Clean Street Food project, an initiative by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) to ensure safe and nutritious street food for all.

Coca Cola will offer the services of its training team for a three-year period while the FSSAI will ensure the relevance of the content and oversee the delivery of objectives. The soft drinks giant has been providing training to around 350,000 retailers in India over the past 10 years. This is the first time it will have trained street food vendors.

Coca-Cola is not the first multinational to offer its food hygiene training services to India. Swiss food corporation Nestle has also recently worked with the regulator to train 700 street food vendors in Goa.

"Besides Nestle and Coca-Cola we are also working with companies like ITC Ltd, Mondelez India, TetraPak, Jubilant FoodWorks and Yum Brands on different projects related to nutrition and food safety," said Pawan Kumar Agarwal, chief executive officer of the FSSAI. Training modules will focus on owners and employers of small food service outlets as well as street food vendors.

The first leg of the programme will be rolled out by mid-April. Training will begin in Punjab and then expanded to cover 14 other locations through Coca-Cola's bottling plant network. These will include West Bengal, Chhattisgarh and the National Capital Region.

 

 

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