What India Needs: The Truth About Food Safety in India with Rinka Banerjee

17/02/2025 1h 2min Temporada 2 Episodio 4
What India Needs: The Truth About Food Safety in India with Rinka Banerjee

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Send us a text15.8% of tested food samples in India were found to be substandard.How safe is the food we consume every day? Can we really trust food labels? What about street food?In this episode, Shutapa Paul engages with Rinka Banerjee, Founder of Thinking Forks, to explore India’s food safety challenges, the innovations driven by startups, and the future of food.Catch the full episode on YouTube or listen on Spotify. #WhatIndiaNeeds #Podcast #FoodSafety #ConsumerRights #HealthyLiving #FoodRegulations #WhatIndiaNeedsPodcast—00:00:00 - Intro00:02:20 - How safe is our food?00:05:41 - Gaps in food safety enforcement00:12:08 - Challenges for MSME00:16:16 - Street food safety concerns00:22:20 - Quality mismatch in global and Indian products00:25:06 - Front of pack labelling in India00:27:42 - Misleading labels & food fraud00:37:23 - The need for consumer awareness00:38:20 - Genesis of Thinking Forks and learnings00:48:35 - The future of food safety in India00:56:00 - Myths 00:57:56 - Advice for young people01:01:53 - Outro—#foodlabeling #frontofpacklabeling #streeetfood #startup #foodsafety #foodregulations #india #foodstartup #indiansnacks #packagedfood #foodpackaging #foodtech #healthierchoices #sustainabilitySubscribe to our channel:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shutapapaulpodcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@shutapa_paul Spotify: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-shutapa-paul-podcast To know more:Follow Shutapa Paul onLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shutapapaul/ Twitter X: https://x.com/ShutapaPaul Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shutapa?igsh=MWZ5cHB3aDg3b21jcQ== Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shutapapaulpage/ Follow Rinka Banerjee onLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/rinka-banerjee-68552117Follow Thinking Forks onLinkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/company/thinking-forks/Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/thinkingforksigsh=MXI2c25mZ3JkdmRpYQ==Thinking Forks: https://www.thinkingforks.com/

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