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A Shared Responsibility
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YOUR GUIDE FOR
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YOUR GUIDE FOR
SAFE AND NUTRITIOUS FOOD
AT THE WORKPLACE
Safe & Nutritious Food
‘A Shared Responsibility
www.snfportal.in
1" Edition
15th May 2018.
Key Contact
Ms, Rijuta Pandav
(9868686868)
For more information, visit out website www.snfportal.in
Write to us at snfatworkplace@tssai govin with your suggestions and queries
The Orange Book serves a guide for general practices recornmended for ensuring
safe and nutritious food at the workplace. The content is not intended to be a
substitute for a professional consultation for medical diagnosis and treatment or
advice on specific dietary requirementsPREFACE
‘Safeand Nutritious Food at Workplace’ isa nation-wide campaign to help people eat safe and
at ight while at work. With the rising incidence of diet-related diseases, we need to be more
conscious and mindful of our diets. This initiative, therefore, educates people on safe and
healthy diets. Further, the campaign would help to develop an overall ecosystem for safe and
nutritious food in workplaces. The key resource book for this campaign is the ‘Orange Book-
Your Guide for Safe and Nutritious Foodatthe Workplace
‘The Orange Book is organized into three parts, The first partis meant for HR/Administration.
Itincludes specific measures that the workplace administration can take in order to create a
system and an enabling environment to ensure food safety and nutrition for everyone at
the workplace.
‘The second part is for the canteen or cafeteria establishment. It specifies best practices and
guidelines recommended for the canteen establishmentto ensure that the food served inthe
workplace, whether prepared in-house or catered from outside, issafe and wholesome,
‘The third part is for employees. It provides several important dos and don'ts, useful tips and
suggestions to empower employees to eat and stay healthy at the workplace by making
Informed choices aboutthe food they consume,
This book has been carefully developed and reviewed by a team of food safety experts and
nutritionists from premier institutionsin the country.
FSSAl would welcome any suggestions and feedback on this publication so that The Orange
Book becomesa trusted guide for workplaces on food safety and nutrition. Further, weplanto
rate workplaces as “Healthy Places to Work’ based on the practices mentioned in this book.
We hope that every workplace becomesa "Healthy Place toWork
Pawan Agarwal
Chiet Executive Orticer
Food Safety and Standards Authority of India