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for all children as well as adult visitors. Hon’ble
MOS (IC) (WCD), Hon’ble Speaker of Lok Sabha,
other noted Members of Parliament and eminent
public personalities visited the stall and
complemented the efforts of FNB.
— CFNEU Chandigarh participated in “Samarthya
2006” organized by the Ministry of Social Justice
and Empowerment, GOI in collaboration with the
Government of Haryana at Chandigarh w.e.f.
November 6-9, 2006 and put up a nutrition exhibition
there.
— CFNEU Hyderabad participated and put up a
Nutrition stall in the Public Information Campaign
Exhibition at Nizamabad District, Andhra Pradesh
during November, 2006
— CFNEU Kolkata put up a Nutrition Exhibition at
Sundarban Krishi Mela ‘O’ Lok Sanskriti Utsab
organized at Kultali Narayantala, Basanti from
December 20-29, 2006.
Development and Promotion of locally
available Nutritious Foods
5.20 Popularizing low cost nutritious foods from locally
available food material is one of the mandates to the FNB.
The field units of FNB have been developing low cost
nutritious recipes from locally available foods for infants,
preschool children, school children, pregnant and lactating
mothers and propagating the same through various nutrition
education and extension programmes in rural, urban slums
and tribal areas as well as during training programmes. A
recipe book on low cost nutritious recipes for
complementary feeding of infants and young children is
under print.
5.21 A Booklet for school children and adults on “Dietary
tips for better health” was also developed and is under
print.
Food Analysis and Standardization
5.22 Food and Nutrition Board has four Quality Control
Laboratories (QCLs) at Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and
Chennai, which analyze various supplementary foods
consumed in feeding programmes under ICDS scheme.
The samples are received from the State Governments as
well as field units of FNB, collected by them during the
course of regular inspections of anganwadi centres. The
QCLs of FNB are also analyzing the processed fruits and
vegetable products under the regulation of quality control
of these products for domestic consumption as well as for
export. These samples are received from Ministry of Food
Processing Industries.
5.23 FNB rendered technical expertise on food quality
and standardization of various committees of Department
of Health, including Codex Food Labelling Committees
etc and of Bureau of Indian Standards and DRDO (Defence
Research Development Organisation). FNB also organized
two Shadow Committee meetings of Codex Committee
on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses
(CCNFSDU) under the chairmanship of the Joint Secretary
(Nutrition and Child Development) and prepared India’s
View Point on the agenda items for 28 th session of
CCNFSDU held from November 30 to December 3, 2006
at Thailand. FNB contributed to the quality aspects of food
standards for infant milk substitutes and infant foods
through the expert committee of MOHFW.
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