Challenges (LEARNING ) for Food Processing and Allied Industries amidst COVID-19

Objective:

1. Covid-19 (VIRUSE a issue: Diseases )

2. Lockdown
3. Unhygienic Conditions/Hygienic Practices
4. Just Imagine the only mode /largest mode of communication is internet

Learning Regarding : Operations or About Economy

Whomsoever is listening attending : the only summary of my discussion is just follow that you are
being following /asked to do and please make a record what you are doing .

What if internet is not working

JUST NOTE DOWN ALL THE ACTIVIES: MAKE A RECORD

(Challenges) It’s universal among industry or specific to Essential Commodities (FooD)

 I will generalize it to National Emergency; COVID-19 is just a name

 FSMS 22000; speaks of Emergency Preparedness plan
 The best part of COVID-19 is it’s individual own- centered,

As economy what I feel the best is to grow at local level, Tapri Example

Challenges can be classified into two

1. Processing/ Production related (inclusive all from availability of raw material, maintenance to
supply chain, consumer
2. Hygiene Practices: Shortage of PPE

LEARNING for those who are Visionary:

1. Correction

2. Corrective Action

3. Preventive Action: Futuristic approach

COVID-19 and food safety: guidance for food businesses

7 April 2020

Food industry personnel, however, do not have the opportunity to work from home and are required to
continue to work in their usual workplaces.

1. Transportation
 2. Health (Work force)
3. Supply chain

Additional measures so that the integrity of the food chain is maintained:

Also the packers or packing section , retails and distributors , all of sudden has a key
role to play, otherwise : transmission

CROSS CONTAMINATION

Recent research evaluated the survival of the COVID-19 virus on different surfaces and
reported that the virus can remain viable for up to 72 hours on plastic and stainless steel, up to
four hours on copper, (May due ti as I am biased towards the conventional practices: I linked it
to the kind of utensils that were used) and up to 24 hours on cardboard.11

Needs to stick to basics ..

Do ten healthy people needs social distancing (incidence of un-touchabiity)

KPMG
a scourge confront all of humanity,
 impacting lifestyles,
 businesses,
 economies, and
 the assumption of common well- being
that all of us have largely taken for granted.

The shift towards localisation

Digital gets a real push
Cash oriented or local communication
Move towards variable cost models

brought economic activity to a standstill

Greediness just doing the exploitation, nature, human being, even nears and
dears..family

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