Inaugural Session

The 13th Cll Food Safety, Quality and Regulatory Summit is an opportunity for National Governments, Codex & Global Development Bodies, Industries, Academia, Consumer Bodies and related stakeholders to come together with a focus on enabling experts to deliberate on upgrading the Food Safety Ecosystem comprising critical and emerging opportunities and challenges.

Driving Transformational and Innovation Leadership across the Supply Chain

Studies have indicated that organizations need to be flexible and innovative with a multi-stakeholder approach to address the needs of today's fast changing Consumer and Regulatory environment. In the current scenario, Food safety, Quality and Nutrition have emerged as some of the key National and International priorities. In this context, appropriate leadership driving organizational culture and organizational innovation towards management of product portfolio through global supply chain management, product integrity, quality, chemical residues, analysis and testing and others keeping food safety and nutrition in the perspective, is the key to excellence. This session aims to capture the criteria of Transformational leadership and its linkage to empowerment and an innovation friendly organizational climate, by inviting Game Changers to bring forth their perspective on the subject.

Panel Discussion on Cross Border Regulatory Partnerships on Food Safety

Every economy is concerned about the ongoing global food safety challenges like changing consumer behaviors, climate change, various modes of transportation and enhanced complexity and globalization of the supply chain among others. These concerns are posing huge challenges for every governmental regulatory authority and is a barrier to trade. Addressing these challenges will require investments in information technology (IT), end-to-end process management of the supply chain and strengthening food safety capability from the top management to grass root level food handlers. It is also critical to strengthen harmonization of regulations in developed and developing countries to safeguard public health, while promoting food security and economic development. A focused creation of partnerships across nations to reduce risks to consumers and increase the benefits to both public health and the economy by strengthening food safety and regulatory ecosystem is hence the need of hour. These unique partnerships would not only help to decrease food-borne hazards and enhance regulatory compliance but would also improve overall food security.

This Panel discussion will focus on strategies to initiate cross border collaborative efforts between Government, Regulator, Commodity Boards and Industry to cooperate in new and creative ways to improve food safety and enhance regulatory compliance.

Parallel Session - Grand Finale : SKA Asia Quiz Contest

Towards a Robust Food Testing Eco System

Meeting expectations of Customers and External Accreditation authorities towards building a robust Food Analysis and Testing ecosystem while addressing the ongoing evolution of International standards like ISO 17025: 2017 on Laboratory Management, is a key challenge faced by a laboratory manager. Some of these concerns include non-availability of harmonized validated test methods, dispute resolution, validation in Rapid Detection Technology (Chemical & Microbiology), water quality in analytical testing, inconsistent results from different laboratories, limited trained food analytical scientists, traceability, measurement uncertainty and outdated technology & instrumentation amongst others.

This session discusses opportunities, risks and concerns of the food analysis and testing service delivery and its mitigation strategies with a conglomeration of experts from the Analysis & Testing Laboratories, CODEX, NABL, FSSAI and Industry through deliberation on International best practices towards creating an environment of reliable and a robust ecosystem.

Evolving Labelling Methodologies to reduce Fat, Salt and Sugar in Packaged Foods

Globally Food labelling is evolving to help consumer make informed choices. Both the regulator and industry are taking initiatives to ensure that Food Labels are consumer friendly and easy to understand in terms of the nutrient content of the food products. Emerging focus is on comprehensive labelling provisions of the essential nutrient such as Fat, Sugar and Salt, given the fact that the high intake of these nutrient in the daily diet directly impact the health of the consumers and contributor to NCDs over years. Hence It is pertinent to understand the appropriate intake of these nutrients in daily diet whether through home cooked foods or packaged foods to ensure gradual reduction. In addition, developing consumer acceptance for low salt and sugar products is equally significant.

Globally initiatives have been taken to appropriately label and reduce the level of these nutrient through various public health interventions such as marketing restrictions for Children, Salt Reduction Strategies, Product Reformulations etc.

This session would focus on understanding the global strategies to improve labelling policies around these nutrients to enable consumers to make healthier choices. Also deliberate and understand the initiative towards packed food reformulations and its impact on reducing the overall burden of NCDs.