Tukaram Mundhe warns over food-safety violations
Citing changes in India’s disease burden since Independence, Mundhe said, “Around 65 to 70 per cent of the disease burden in India at the time of Independence was attributable to communicable diseases, while today, a similar proportion of the country’s disease burden is from non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Even at the age of 25-30, we are getting cardiac arrests, and this has a direct correlation with what we eat,” he asserted.
The sooner we understand and appreciate it, the better it will be for us,” the IAS officer said. This is how we are compromising public health,” Mundhe told reporters. “The largest or the biggest issue in India regarding food safety is that it is causing public health havoc. We are not realising it. “Rules do exist, acts do exist. Except maybe licensing and registration, no regulation is followed.
AHMEDABAD: Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Tukaram Mundhe on Saturday warned that poor compliance with food-safety regulations is contributing to a growing public-health crisis, saying people often fail to connect illnesses with the food and beverages they consume. “Today, cancer, diabetes, hypertension, cardiac diseases are increasing.