Unilever food solutions to launch food safety workshops

Unilever Food Solutions (UFS) has launched a series of Food Safety workshops aimed at raising the standard of food handling practices.

The announcement was made during World Health Day celebrations, the theme of which is food safety in 2015. UFS is organizing these workshops for the benefit of Chefs and restaurant managers across Pakistan.

The UFS Food Safety workshops, to be held across all major cities, will focus on hygienic food handling and safe storage of food items whilst ensuring a safe food preparation environment and proper management and storage of equipment. These workshops will impart learning as per global best practices as a means of managing food safety risks inside the kitchen for the restaurant network that UFS works with.

Dr Masood Sadiq Butt, Director General, National Institute of Food Science & Technology, highlighted, “Unsafe food creates a vicious cycle of disease and malnutrition that affects millions of people across the world and also has a socio-economic impact. Unilever Food Solutions’ efforts to increase food safety awareness are commendable and necessary forPakistan. It is also important for regulators, academia and industry to work together to create an enabling environment for the benefit of Pakistan’s people.”

Nusrat Parveen, Country Head, Unilever Food Solutions Pakistan, added, “At Unilever, the health and well-being of our consumers is our utmost concern. We have taken this initiative to work with our restaurant partners to create the necessary awareness to pre-empt food safety hazard outbreaks in Pakistan. As part of these workshops, we will be channelling our global expertise as a means of raising food safety standards across the country.”

Unilever Food Solution’s Food Safety Workshops are targeted at chef and restaurant managers and in the first phase will reach 1000 participants across Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad.