Awarding Food Safety Excellence
The CII Food Safety Award, a Distinguished Excellence Award on Food Safety Maturity Assessment in India, was launched by CII in 2010 to promote internationally benchmarked practices on Food Safety in Small, Medium, and Large Food Businesses and build capacity in the food value chain.
The Award has gained significant relevance in the current scenario in terms of performance improvement and benchmarking in the food sector, given the global priority accorded to Food Safety.
Over the last 4 years, besides covering sectors like Bakery, Beverages, Dairy, Edible Oils, Ready to Eat Snacks, Quick Service Restaurants, the Award program has expanded to include Institutional Canteens, Food Courts, E-Commerce, Laboratories and Joint Partnership Applications of Customers and Suppliers demonstrating Food Safety Excellence in the Food Supply Chain.
This year, we are introducing new Award categories of Home Chef and Fortified Foods (Oil & Milk).
We aim to cultivate and strengthen a culture of food safety and quality practices by recognizing and promoting outstanding Food businesses and Food Testing Labs in India from all tiers.
Our criteria for the awards varies across the nature and size of businesses. It’s spread over 4 Broad Models with an extensive assessment process. Know about these in detail and the qualification categories by clicking the following button.
Mr S Swaminathan
Jury Chair, CEO, Indian Operations, GS1
Dr Kaushik Banerjee
Jury Co-Chair & Pre-Jury Chair, Director ICAR-NRC, Grapes
Dr Chindi Va
Pre-Jury Co-Chair, Former Vice Chancellor, NIFTEM, Kundli, KSNUAHS
It is a pleasure to note that the CII Food Safety Award program has helped raise awareness on sustainable success through benchmarks in food safety systems and provide guidance to those seeking to achieve it. Based on a process of feedback and review with stakeholders and in line with the changing market scenario, the assessment models have been duly upgraded. It is also heartening to note that the typical on-site Award program transitioned into a virtual mode under the pandemic situation since 2020 and continued to motivate organisations to challenge it.
Mr Arun Singhal,
IAS, CEO, FSSAI
The CII Food Safety Award has evolved since 2010 to now include 12 customized criteria including that for e-Commerce. It is a framework for preparing organizations to achieve benchmark attributes through interaction with experts from an external perspective.
Mr. Piruz Khambatta,
Chairperson – CII Food Safety Awards Commi t tee & C M D, Rasna International
The CII Award for Food Safety is gaining popularity among food industries as the evaluation criteria are robust and are supported by a detailed pre-jury assessment.
Dr Gyanendra Gongal (WHO)
Jury member for CII Food Safety Awards
The CII Food Safety Award Model is a practical and holistic toolkit w h ich can be used for the assessment of organizations on the path to world-class food safety and robust change management systems. It helps identify gaps and stimulate solutions for a roadmap for continual improvement.
Dr. Chindi Vasudevappa
Chair – Jury CII Food Safety, Vice Chancellor, NIFTEM (under Ministry of Food Processing Industries, Govt. of India)
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