New Delhi, 27 September (IANS). Experts said on Saturday that proper regulation is necessary to ensure correct use of antibiotics, improve food security and deal with antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
In the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the India Food Safety and Standards Authority initiative Global Food Regulators Summit 2025 discussed various aspects of strengthening the food safety system and regulatory structure in the food value chain.
“This is a very important conference for food regulators, because food items should be safe in many ways,” told by news agency IANS, Professor of Veterinary Public Health at Copenhagen University in Denmark. A problem should be safe in many ways. One problem is that there is a lot of deaths in the human health sector with antimicrobial resistance. Can contribute. “
He added, “We need to start a regulatory program in association with farmers and industry, so that they can give results and the antibiotic can be used correctly and thoughtfully.”
Dr. Annie Rahman, CEO of Brunei Darussalam Food Authority of Island Rashtra Brunei, told IANS that food security has become a global issue and is actually based on confidence.
He said, “Food security is a growing and dynamic field, so it always has new things and a lot of cooperation to improve it.”
Dr. Katrina Mastovska, Deputy Executive Director and Chief Scientific Officer of AOAC International, US, emphasized the importance of using advanced equipment such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) or data analytics in food security.
“We certainly need to develop some guidelines on ways to apply AI devices in food analysis and use them more effectively,” he told IANS.
New Zealand Food Safety speaker and Deputy Director General Vincent Arbakal praised India’s food security in a big way.
Arbakal told IANS, “Our country is very small, whose population is five and a half million and your country is very big. We can learn a lot from India by your desire to manage food security and increase food exports in such a big country with such a diverse culture.”
Kofi Assuman of Austria’s World Packaging Organization (WPO) spoke on the need to adopt digital technology for better food security.
Esuman told IANS, “It is clear that in this era of digitization and artificial intelligence, machine learning, we need to change our way of food regulation by adopting many digital technology.”
He also emphasized the importance of the right packaging in ensuring food security and also emphasized the need to properly dispose of plastic to protect the foods from contaminating and properly to protect the environment from damage.
At the same time, Angashu Malik, managing director and CEO of AWL Agri Business, emphasized the importance of traditional method of Indian cooking and food at an event in Delhi. He also talked about increasing his production of edible oil.
He told IANS, “We import 60 percent of edible oil. We have to increase our production. For this we will start a mustard model form.”
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