Food Safety and Health

Biography

Biography: Fayaj Pathan

Abstract

I am putting here the concept on hand in hand growth and development of food laws and regulations and food chemistry and microbiology.  Up gradation in food chemistry and microbiology has direct effect on astringent execution of food laws. No doubt food chemistry and microbiology is playing this role properly. Food chemistry and microbiology are developing at their own pace, but it is need of an hour to concentrate on development of these two subjects at much higher speed. It is necessary for helping the food laws for proper and astringent execution. I am suggesting following developments for the same:
(1)Let us develop rapid and considerable cost effective chemical and microbiological methods of analyzing the samples of food.(2)Let us develope methods of analysis based on image processing technology by observing the changes in color and appearance of food when it is infested with microorganisms and loss of nutrients occurs in it.(3)Let us try to analyze the microbial infestation on particular food, food packaging and finished food product as well as products going to be served. We need to build some devices which we can by moving once on the sample detect the microbial load on it and the device will give us signal to accept or reject the food. Same device will be boon for us to check and keep food processing environment as much free of microorganisms as possible.(4)Let us develop rapid methods for early and cost effective detection of adulterants.(5)Let us concentrate on alternative cost effective methods for analysis of pesticide residues in fruits vegetables and their products and veterinary drug residues in milk.(6)Let us develop alternative to the cancer causing artificial fruit ripening methods.(7)Let us concentrate on minimizing the loss of nutrients due food processing steps.
No doubt we are trying for this already, but we need to do it at much better pace by concentrating on food laws and their execution.