Action Area - EatSmart Cities Challenge

Changing settings - ERI Campus

Eat Right Campus (ERC)


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About ERC

The Eat Right Campus initiative has a two-fold objective: it helps to create an environment of safe food and healthy eating for residents and visitors in various campuses through compliance to a set of well-defined parameters; and equally importantly, it continuously reiterates the message of “mindful eating habits” in places that are part of our daily routine e.g. at people’s workplaces, colleges, institutes or any other campus.

The ERC initiative can be taken up in any of the following campuses:
  • Workplaces/Corporates
  • Colleges/Institutes/Universities
  • Jails
  • Hospitals/Health institutions
  • Tea Estates

Role of Stakeholders

  • Food Safety Department of States/UTs:Its role includes overall implementation and identification of campus; verification of self-assessment report and final audit report and recommendation for declaring eat right campus.
  • Training Partners (www.fostac.fssai.gov.in): Their role is mobilizing campuses to participate, training Food Safety Supervisors; creating a trainers’s pool etc.
  • Auditing Agencies (www.fssai.gov.in): Their role is mobilizing participation, ensuring timely audits, handholding for further improvements.
  • Corporates/Funding Partners: Their role is adopting campuses for ERC certification; promoting awareness, using CSR funds for training& third-party audit, printing and translation of training material, etc.
  • Academic Institutions/Colleges/Universities: Their role is to conduct self-assessment as per the checklist; provide overall support in identification, implementation and sustenance; mobilize resources to become a certified ERC.

Steps for Implementation

  • Identification of campus and submission of enrolment form.
  • Self-assessment/Pre-audit on a clearly defined checklist to identify gaps.
  • Food Safety Training & Certification through FSSAI empanelled Training Partners.
  • Rectification of gaps by campus authority.
  • Final audit by FSSAI empanelled third party auditing agency for certification & rating of the campus. The certificate will be valid for 2 years.
  • Sustenance: Designate a staff/student as ERC Fellow, who will be trained for periodic internal audits. Local FSO will draw sample randomly as per the risk involved.

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Success Stories

Eat Right Campus has been gaining momentum since its launch in 2019. On the first World Food Safety Day, 7th June 2019, seven campuses were awarded the Eat Right Campus certification by Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Hon’ble Minister of Health and Family Welfare at FSSAI. The following campuses were recognized for their exemplary standards- IIT Gandhinagar, IIT Roorkee, LBSNAA, Mussoorie, Unilever, Bengaluru, Wipro, Bengaluru, HCL Noida and Genpact, Gurugram.

One of the first Eat Right Campuses to be recognized is the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA), Mussoorie. They have not only got the Hygiene Rating of their canteen done but have taken additional steps such as replacing plastic bottles with personalised glass bottles for probationers, introducing healthy snacks such as sprouts/chana instead of fried items, adopting a healthy menu, putting posters on healthy habits in the premises and conducting sessions with nutritionists for officers in the institute.