All You Need To Know About Fssai’s Eat Right Campus Certificate

Category: Health

Eat Right Campus is the initiative institutionalized by the FSSAI to create an environment of safe and healthy food in various campuses such as workplaces, canteens or cafeterias at establishments, such as schools, colleges, jails, hospitals, health institutions or similar places. It is a five-star rating mechanism with a set of well-defined benchmarks and standards for food safety and hygiene, food waste management, healthy diet, promotion of local seasonal food and awareness generation. Growing lifestyle disorders are leading to a rise in diet-related diseases, the workplace and establishments need to be more conscious of their employee's health. Therefore, it becomes important for a workplace to ensure the availability of safe and healthy food options for its employees. Therefore, Eat Right Campus (ERC) plays a very important role. It provides a unique opportunity to the workplace and establishments, to showcase their efforts towards employees health and well-being. This also helps in setting up examples in their respective industries about the best practices which must be followed by other corporations for their employees. Food Testing Labs play their role here by providing various testing and audit-related services. To receive the star ratings for Eat Right Campus, an audit is conducted based on the checklist provided by the FSSAI, which consists of various parameters. The parameters are as follows: Eat Safe (50%) Location & surroundings Design, Layout Control of Operations Personal Hygiene Cleaning & Maintenance Eat Healthy (20%) Local & Seasonal Food Healthy Diets & Lifestyle Reducing consumption of HFSS Eat Sustainably (20%) RUCO No Food Waste Water conservation No plastic Building Awareness (10%) Food safety messages Awareness programs IEC material dissemination On the basis of the final scores given during the audit, the workplace or the establishment is certified as Eat Right Campus with a five-star rating. Conducting hygiene rating audits on a frequent basis can help you from last moment preparations for the ERC Certification and securing 5-star ratings. The Eat Right Campus rating and certificate involve these steps : Registration with FSSAI Pre Audit (Gap Assessment Audit) FoSTaC Training Final Audit Issue of Certificate We at Equinox Labs are a team of 250+ domain specialists to help you through your Eat Right Campus certification and rating journey with a single point of contact consultation.