The objective behind this award is to raise
awareness levels, promoting Food Safety Practices and recognise role
models with a view to upgrade Indian food companies in the Micro, Small,
Medium and Large scale sectors to world class levels.
The assessment criteria for small, micro, medium
and large scale companies, involved in production and service of food
products are based on national and international standards of Food
Safety Systems and have been customized keeping the nature of business,
size, sector, structure and maturity levels in mind. The process
involves an assessment and feedback to the participating companies by
harnessing the expertise of highly experienced, trained, technical food
professionals and setting examples of best in class.
The assessment is generally done with an exhaustive
questionnaire with 400+ questions which belongs to various topics and
sub sections like Regulations, Social Compliance, PRPs, HACCP, GMP,
Change Management etc., and their management in a very effective and
efficient way.
Speaking on this occasion, Mr. Muralidhar Pundla,
GM, the Quality and Process Excellence department said “we are extremely
honored to receive this award. The Bellary kitchen of Akshaya Patra
faired well in all the sections and hence got the award of commendation.
Though, we still believe that there is room for improvement. Therefore,
our next course of action would be to continuously focus on Continual
Improvement activities/projects using proven methodologies like Kaizen,
CI Projects & Six Sigma Projects in Akshaya Patra’s operation.”
The CII National Award for Food Safety was formed
to honor organizations for pre-eminence in the field of food safety
systems, raise awareness on sustainable success and competitiveness
through robust food safety systems and provide guidance to those seeking
to achieve it. Based on a process of feedback and review from the
stakeholders and in line with the changing market scenario, the
assessment model has been duly upgraded to 2013 Revisions.
