About Save Food Share Food
ave Food, Share Food, Share Joy in an initiative to promote food donation and curb food waste & food loss in the country. The platform serves a network of the Food Collection Agencies and brings together Food businesses, Corporates, Civil Society Organizations, Citizens, Volunteers, Government and Local bodies to work in sync with each other to prevent food loss or waste throughout the supply chain, from production to household consumption
Objectives
Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) plays a key role not only in food safety and hygiene but also in ensuring availability of wholesome food and encouraging citizens to eat the right foods. Therefore, the aim of FSSAI via IFSA is primarily to :
- Care: Help minimize food wastage across the supply chain by means of redistribution to poor and needy.
- Aware: Mobilize people to minimize their food wastage through widespread awareness program across the country by Food Recovery Agencies.
- Share: Facilitate safe distribution of surplus food by connecting trained food recovery agencies with food chains.
- Prepare: Educate food business on best practices and encourage them to adopt the same in order to prevent food loss along the supply chain.
- Declare: Provide strategic policy, regulatory, and programme support to food loss and waste reduction initiatives.
