Food Regulations and Good Laboratory Practices- Hygiene Practices, Quality Management
Narendra Tripathi, General Manager - Quality Assurance, Tirupati Wellness
Hygiene is a set of practices, which help to preserve health; it is govern through the conditions that prevent the spreading of diseases. Hygiene in common way by people is considered as cleanliness, but hygiene has broad spectrum. For industries it is of great importance topic during every day operations for product processing either it is nutraceuticals food products or pharmaceuticals or any category of food products or Ayurvedic products . The organizations as well as Pharmaceutical organizations consider it as Good Manufacturing Practices . The depending on nature of processing of products there are different regulatory standards to govern the hygiene practices in the industries i.e. for Food Industries the applicable regulation is Schedule IV (II) (The Food Safety and Standards Act 2006),in pharmaceutical Industries Good Manufacturing Practices are govern by Schedule M( The Drugs and Cosmetics Act-1940), in Ayurvedic industries Good Manufacturing Practices are regulated through Schedule –T (The Drugs and Cosmetics Act-1940).In current scenario there is need to maintain GMP through “Hygienic Engineering Practices”, which help to process safe and quality products for the organizations.
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