NOIDA: Genesis Global School, a premier day-cum-residential school has become the first school in Noida to be certified with Eat Right School certification by FSSAI (Food Safety & Standards Authority of India). FSSAI’s ‘Eat Right School’ programme is designed to create awareness about food safety, nutrition & hygiene among school children, and through them among the community at large.
Commenting on the achievement, Ms. Subie Issac Srivastava, General Manager, Genesis Global School said, “It is a matter of great joy and pride to receive the Eat Right School Certification as this testifies the school’s dedication of creating world-class infrastructure and environment for its students while maintaining standards of high-quality, hygienic and nutritious food. Genesis Global School wholeheartedly appreciates FSSAI’s Initiative of creating awareness regarding food safety, nutrition & hygiene awareness about among school children”.
FSSAI has taken up a series of initiatives to transform India’s food safety and nutrition landscape by ensuring availability and consumption of safe food and healthy diets by its citizens. Children are powerful change agents. Messages delivered to, and through children, have the potential to usher in behavioural change and a culture of safe and wholesome food. Since, food habits are developed early in life, adequate coverage of food and nutrition both in curriculum and extracurricular activities at the school level is essential.
