Training Program for Fastfood Vendors Commences

With an aim to provide hygienic food to the multitude of visiting pilgrims to Tirumala, all the hoteliers and street food vendors should practice hygienic methods and regularly carry out Food Safety Auditing as per norms, advocated, TTD Additional EO Sri C Venkaiah Chowdary.

The three-day training programme for Street food Vendors jointly organised by TTD health department along with Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) and Nestle India has commenced at the Auditorium of SV Museum in Tirumala on Tuesday for 325 food establishments  employing approximately 1,300 workers in the Hill Town.

Addressing the training program the Additional EO complimented the Nestle India Company for coming forward to give this training to the streetfood vendors on CSR basis. ''They have commenced their training program in AP from Tirumala which is a commendable idea, he reiterated.

The Additional EO said the top priority is the health safety of scores of devotees. ''By enhancing and practicing hygienic food methods will definitely a value addition for the spiritual centre. We are strictly observing hygienic habits in Annaprasadam. The private eateries in Tirumala should also scrupulously follow the hygienic food practices. For every six months the training should be imparted to the hoteliers and street food vendors to enhance awareness among them. The training should also focus on minimum statutory procedures and norms, supplemented with practical exercises to reinforce safe food-handling practices while revisiting the routine activities, he opinioned.

Later the Additional EO also presented the safety kits to the participants that included caps, gloves, aprons, soaps etc.

Deputy EO Health Sri Soman Narayana, Health Officer Dr Sudha Rani, Quality Manager Sri Lakshmi Narayana Reddy,  Corporate Affairs Manager of Nestle India Sri Waseem Ahmed, health department officials, hoteliers, street vendors and others were also present.