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Introduction:

Street food is, however, often perceived as unhygienic and a major health risk. Hence there is a need for capacity building of street food vendors that should lead to their behavior change. Many initiatives have been taken up in the past, but these were all sporadic and did not take up all vendors in any area, as a result, were not sustainable.

Project Clean Street Food is one of the initiatives taken up by FSSAI under a 360 degree approach to Food Safety and Healthy Nutrition. This would involve training and capacity building of the street food vendors and ensure proper regulatory oversight over them under the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006.

About Initiative: 

India’s ‘food streets’ are repositories of age-old delicacies and are must-eat locations. These streets draw people from different cultures and socio-economic status together in an egalitarian daily celebration of the tastes and flavours that define our cities. They are also remunerative sources of livelihood for thousands of people who keep the distinctive traditional cuisines of India alive in their flavourful and affordable food offerings. However, these food streets are wallowing under the widespread concern on basic hygiene practices and are perceived to be unsafe.

Every state has its own famous /unique food street which showcases its local and regional cuisines and is famous local as well as tourist attraction points. To upgrade existing food street across the country and provide safe and hygienic local eating experience, FSSAI with support of state government bodies has framed benchmarks for basic hygiene and sanitary requirements for upgrading the existing infrastructures of food streets across the country.

FSSAI will duly recognize and certify those Food Hubs that comply with these standards and benchmarks, and such certification would help to create consumer trust.

Broad objectives:

• To ensure health, hygiene and safety standard of street food for all consumers.
• To raise the quality of street food vending to the level of food courts and established Hotels and restaurants.
• To ensure social and economic upliftment of street vendor community by helping them in improving quality of offerings thereby attracting more customers.
• To enhance the popularity of Street food by transforming it into a global brand by itself.

This initiative of FSSAI is aimed at filling in this gap. This would have useful and practical tips and information about food safety and nutrition that Indian households need on a day-to-day basis. It would be a one-point credible source of information and good practices regarding food safety and nutrition.

• Creating Resources on Safe and Nutritious Food
• Disseminating Knowledge on Safe and Nutritious Food through community outreach
• Providing Training on Food Safety and Nutrition

Inspection Check List:

The Auditor will inspect the facility of the street food hub according to the requirements as laid down in the inspection checklist and accordingly will mark the finding as compliance (C), non-compliance (NC), partial compliance (PC) & Not applicable/Not observed (NA). Separate requirements have been developed for street food hubs and for carts within the hub. All the requirements are allotted 2 marks and there are few requirements which are allotted 4 marks. 4 marks questions are critical to food safety and shall be essentially met by the street food hub.

Download, Read & Share: Guidance documents, Guideline for Clean Street Food Hub, List of potentials hubs, Inspection Checklist, List of auditing agency, SOP and Flyer for Clean Street Food Hub

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