The document discusses food waste, loss, and surplus. It defines these terms and explains that food waste represents inefficiencies across the food supply chain. Preventing food waste is important because billions of tonnes of edible food is wasted each year while many people remain undernourished. The FSSAI has established regulations and initiatives like "Save Food Share Food Share Joy" to encourage donation of surplus food and reduce waste. The Indian Food Sharing Alliance connects food donors, recovery agencies, volunteers and beneficiaries through a website and app to redistribute surplus safe food to those in need.

2. A girl forages for edible vegetables in the garbage near Central market
in Mangaluru. (DH Photo/Govindaraj Javali)

4. DEFINING FOOD WASTE, LOSS &
SURPLUS
Food Waste
• food that is wasted or thrown away intentionally due to various
reasons such as excess consumption
Food Loss
• food that is lost through the supply chain right from the initial
production down to the final consume
Food
Surplus
• overproduction of food and this food usually never reaches the
end consumer as it is thrown away at the vendor level itself

7. Food waste represents
inefficiencies in the food
system, accounting for
losses at every step of the
supply chain:
production,
storage,
transportation,
processing,
retail and
consumer
losses.

8. Why is Prevention of Food Waste Important?
 3 metric gigatons of edible food is wasted every year and
at least 795 million people are undernourished worldwide.
 Global food waste accounts for 6.7% of global
greenhouse gas emissions, directly leading to climate
change
 In India, about Rs.340 crore worth of food is wasted in
metros alone in the food served in functions and
ceremonies.
 This high-quality food, befitting a king, can feed about 50
lakh people who sleep hungry every night.

9. Shouldn’t we do something about this
gapping irony?.
NASSCOM Foundation and FSSAI have come together to
ensure that the food-deprived sections of society get safe and
nutritious food channelised from the food-surplus sections of
society
Small efforts, Go a long way!

12. FOOD SAFETY AND STANDARDS (RECOVERY AND
DISTRIBUTION OF SURPLUS FOOD) REGULATIONS, 2019
• FSSAI has framed a regulation to promote food
donation by businesses and reduce wastage.
• “Food Authority has come up with the Food Safety and
Standards (Recovery and Distribution of surplus food)
Regulations, 2019, so as to provide a legitimate
backup to the food donation in India,”
• Purpose Surplus food distribution agencies to
register with the FSSAI for licensing is mandatory

13. PURPOSE OF
SURPLUS FOOD REGULATION
To establish a uniform national regulation to protect
organizations and individuals when they donate food
in good faith.
 To encourage the donation of food and grocery
products to nonprofit organizations for distribution to
needy individuals.

14. FSSAI HAS STARTED AN
INITIATIVE CALLED;
• ‘Save Food Share Food
Share Joy’
 first showcased -World Food
Day celebration 2017.
 to create a food recovery
ecosystem.
 aims to bridge the gap
between food companies,
surplus food distribution
agencies and beneficiaries
• Indian Food Sharing Alliance
(IFSA)
 A network of food collection/recovery
agencies in India, to create a pan
India network of these agencies.
 common platform where all the
agencies will be equally benefitted
with regulatory support, food safety
training and capacity building efforts.

15. OBJECTIVES

16. IMPLEMENTATION MODEL
• FSSAI plans to develop a web portal and a mobile
based application to create an integrated network of
Food Recovery Agencies, Donating Bodies,
Beneficiaries and Volunteers.

17. FOCUS AND BENEFITS OF THE
PLATFORM
A step to combat hunger issues in the country.
Integration of various food donating and collection
agencies, volunteers and beneficiaries.
End - to - end solutions for issues regarding food loss,
food waste and excess food.
Cross-learning opportunities for partners and
stakeholders. Increasing outreach of the programme
pan India.

18. OUR PARTNERS-
FOOD COLLECTION AGENCIES
 There are multiple food collection organizations working in various parts of
India.
 On an average,12 such bodies are feeding over a lakh people in 70 cities
 The necessity is to integrate the existing platforms via website & mobile App,
provide food safety regulations and publicity of partners via FSSAI media .
 Few known names involved in food collection and donation are namely e.g.
No Food Waste, Indian Food Banking Network, Roti Bank, Give Away India,
Feeding India, Robin Hood Army, Annakshetra, India Food Banking Network,
Goonj, etc.
 The concept is to create a network of partners to work together to create a
phenomenon worldwide and have a great impact in this space

19. THE PLATFORM WOULD HELP IN
THE FOLLOWING MANNER
I. Hunger mapping - identify areas with beneficiaries (needy and in-distress people) for
feeding.
II. Encourage more civil society organizations on board to become surplus food
recovery agencies to increase outreach.
III. Encourage existing and upcoming recovery agencies to operate through Standard
Operating Procedures (SOPs).
IV. Provide support for food storage space or facilities, food recovery vehicles, vessels,
containers, volunteers etc.
V. Collaborate with caterers, hotels, restaurants and their associations for enhancing
the reach and scale of operations.
VI. Common technology platforms such as mobile apps, dedicated helplines and
common dashboards for end - to - end process monitoring and review.
VII. Management of key campaigns towards mass food donation in various parts of the
country.

20. HIGHLIGHTS
• Regulations on ‘Recovery of Surplus Food’ Guidance
for citizens ‘getting people to use what they buy, avoid
wasting food in plate’ Good practices in the industry to
avoid loss of food during food processing Safe food
handling practices for food recovery agencies to
ensure safe food for needy
• Campaigns to promote food sharing

21. FSSAI HAS ALSO UNVEILED TWO KEY
CAMPAIGNS CALLED
Street food vendor has
a heart I too have a heart
IFSA will engage with street
vendors to encourage them
to donate every 10th meal to
the needy.
“I too have a heart’
campaign will focus on a
regular donation of food by
food businesses and
citizens. This campaign will
be managed through the
IFSA online platform.

22. (INDIAN FOOD SHARING ALLIANCE )IFSA
• IFSA Website launched on 16th Oct 2017
• A network of food collection/recovery agencies in
India, to create a pan India network of these agencies.
The network serves as a common platform where all
the agencies will be equally benefitted with regulatory
support, food safety training and capacity building
efforts.

23. The IFSA portal will enable
 donors to track data, information and the status of
donated food through a personal login
 volunteers from across the country to register on the
platform
 citizens, food businesses, and recovery agencies to get
guidance on prevention of food loss and food waste
 safe recovery of surplus foods

24. HOW CAN I GET INVOLVED?
Donor
• Become a
Donor
• Food brings
happiness which
gets doubled
when shared.
Register as a
Food Donor
under IFSA to
share your
surplus food to
needy and
hungry people
on time.
Partners
• Join with IFSA
as a Food
Recovery
Partner!
• To Feed needy
and in-distress
people through
joint efforts
Volunteer
• Become a
Volunteer
• “The best way to
find yourself is to
lose yourself in
the service of
others” -
Mahatma Gandhi
Ready to serve
the needy! Then,
register here to
join hands with
your local food
sharing
organisations.
Benificiary
• Become a
Beneficiary
• Wanna become a
Hunger Hero of
your locality!
Register here and
become an
ambassador for
your community to
receive excess food
from Food
Recovery
Organisations and
to feed needy
people in your
locality!

25. THE AIM OF FSSAI VIA IFSA IS
THEREFORE, PRIMARILY TO
Care: Help minimize food wastage across the supply chain by means of
redistribution to poor and needy.
Aware: Mobilize people to minimize their food wastage through widespread
awareness programs across the country by Food Recovery Agencies.
Share: Facilitate safe distribution of surplus food by connecting trained food
recovery agencies with food chains.
Prepare: Educate food business on best practices and encourage them to adopt
the same in order to prevent food loss along the supply chain.
Declare: Provide strategic policy, regulatory, and programme support to food
loss and waste reduction initiatives.

27. Reuse Recycle Upcycle

28. TO CONCLUDE
SAVE
FOOD
SHARE
FOOD
SHARE
JOY