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Live Quality Lab, Food Safety on Wheels new features
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Thursday, 16 August, 2018, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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Anurag More, Mumbai
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Live Quality Lab and Food Safety on Wheels by FSSAI will be new features at the 13th essay of Food Ingredients (Fi) India and Health Ingredients (Hi), which will be organised by UBM India Pvt. Ltd and take place at India Exposition Mart, Greater Noida, between August 30 and September 1, 2018. The events will be co-located with ProPak India, providing the attendees a one-stop solution for all their ingredients, processing and packaging needs.
Live Quality Lab
The companies exhibiting at the Live Quality Lab will conduct lab tests on products in a designated area for common adulterants in milk, water, edible oil and other items of daily consumption. Testing the food to install confidence in the consumers that it is safe to eat is a crucial aspect of the food safety ecosystem. FSSAI, on a large scale, is supporting and undertaking such activities.
Food Safety on Wheels
FSSAI is working towards having more food testing labs, both in the public and private sectors. The country’s apex food regulator will have their mobile testing vans placed on the show floor.
The objectives of both the aforementioned features are to build awareness around food safety and hygiene; promote healthy eating habits in the citizens at large, and conduct training and certification programmes for food handlers and supervisors in food businesses, particularly petty food businesses.
Fi India and Hi 2018
The 2018 edition of Fi India and Hi, will feature exhibitors showcasing food, health, natural ingredients and related technological innovations from across the globe.
Key food players congregate at this event to connect, share and ideate. Annually, over 2,50,000 senior food and beverage professionals attend the Fi events globally. Last year, over 9,000 buyers and sellers attended the event to explore opportunities to build strategic alliances in the ever-growing food and health industry in India.
Sameer Mithia, portfolio director, UBM India Pvt. Ltd, said, “The Live Demonstrations include a series of educative sessions to impart knowledge on a wide variety of topics, ranging from ingredients to the packaging of bakery products. The on-site seminars are interactive seminars by experts from the global food industry, addressing issues ranging from health, wellness and nutrition to the evolution of and innovations in ingredients.”
“Our Business Match Making service will help the attendees make the most of their visits to Fi India and Hi. The Mobile App will provide them easy access to the latest updates wherever they are and whenever they want them. The Product Showcase at Fi India and Hi is concentrated at one spot. It will feature a selection of new ingredients for the food and beverage industry. Using the Supplier Finder, the visitors can find the suppliers they are looking for quickly and easily, and the Exhibitor Showcase will help them stay abreast of the latest market developments and trends. The Discovery Tours will provide them a great chance to learn about the different applications and to see how they can benefit them and their businesses,” he added.
Highlights Technical Seminars
“Attendees can witness power-packed technical seminars from a variety of Indian associations, who will cover both market trends and the latest developments only at Fi India and Hi 2018. We will once again feature three days of on-site seminars on the show floor. According to the nature of our exhibition, the Indian associations will cover each element of the expo to give all the latest insights and market trends in the food business. It is upto the attendees to grasp all they can in these three days to boost their businesses,” Mithia said.
Innovative Ingredients
“We, at Fi India and Hi 2018, will give the visitors a dedicated area where they can come and explore from a selection of new ingredients from the food and beverage industry. They will also be invited to vote for the most innovative products in the Product Showcase. The top three innovations will be awarded the Visitors’ Choice Innovative Ingredients Awards,” he added.
Pre-Connect Congress
The Pre-Connect Congress on Nutritional Science and Functional Foods, which is slated to take place in Delhi on August 28 and 29, 2018, will focus on the newly-implemented FSSA regulations that will affect the manufacturers and ensuring their existing and new products’ compliance. The summit has been designed as a platform for the industry to converge and discuss the best practices and challenges and collectively find solutions to adopt and adapt the regulatory guidelines for product manufacturing, marketing, research and development (R&D) challenges and consumer awareness and behaviour.
Live Demonstrations
Mithia said, “Last year, Fi India and Hi hosted a two-day free live demonstration in partnership with celebrity chef Rakhee Vaswani. The new factor about the live demonstrations this year is that we will be using our exhibitor’s products to conduct them to cover the whole essence of the exhibition.”
Business Match Making
The Business Match Making service will give the attendees an opportunity to select companies for face-to-face meetings with their most promising prospects. As a participant, they will be given an unparalleled opportunity to meet qualified buyers and sellers who know about their companies and are eager to conduct business with them.
The matchmaking will be arranged through an easy-to-use technology platform, combined with a personalised service to help maximise their networking opportunities. With the tools, the attendees
can easily pre-schedule meetings with the exhibitors selected by them during Fi India and Hi.
Supplier Finder
This feature will ensure a more efficient exhibitor experience.
There will be an interactive floor plan to help the attendees find their existing business partners and meet new suppliers.
Supplier Finders’ Help
Easily view multiple exhibitors on the map who supply the product they searched for; · Search companies by name, product or stand number; · See their current location and where a supplier is located; · Browse an interactive floor plan to explore what’s available.
Mobile App
The Fi Global Mobile App, the ultimate guide to Fi India and Hi 2018, will provide the attendees easy access to the updates on exhibitor and product details, show features and schedules on their fingertips for ease of expansion of their professional networks.
Exhibitor Showcase
At the Exhibitor Showcase, which made its debut on the third day of the 2017 edition of Fi India and Hi, visitors got the opportunity to see the latest innovations of a few exhibitors, who demonstrated their offerings, sharing their benefits and how they can be used to boost the visitors’ businesses.
This year too, the Exhibitor Showcase will take place in Greater Noida, and bring the visitors new offerings and latest market trends.
Discovery Tours
The organisers of Fi India and Hi always plan to offer the attendees something new. Last year, they introduced Discovery Tours in partnership with Nutri Marketing, whose experts took the attendees on a guided tour to discover how leading companies respond to innovations in the food and beverage industry.
Those who missed the Discovery Tours last year can attend them in Greater Noida this year, and witness the latest innovations in the market trends:
Nutrition: Alternative protein, fat and sugar, replacer: reformulation; · Ingredients you can trust: Natural, safety; · Go for more naturalness: Electronic-free ingredients.
Co-located Event ProPak India
“This year, Fi India and Hi is co-located with ProPak India,” said Mithia.
ProPak Asia is the largest and leading industry event of its kind in Asia. With a proven track record of over 25 years, ProPak Asia is the region’s best platform to forge strong business connections within its expanding processing and packaging industries.
As the market continues to expand, the Indian leg of the event – ProPak India – is expected to become the place for key representatives of trade institutions and manufacturers and distributors of packaging machinery and technology to meet representatives of the domains and the media.
The ideal platform to connect every level of the rapidly-expanding processing and packaging industry value chains, ProPak India is aimed at the manufacturing industry, for whom
packaging is an internal growth driver.
Visitors Expected
“The number of visitors expected at the event is about 9,000,” Mithia said.
Exhibitors Expected
He added, “Over 250 exhibitors are expected.
Of there, over 50 are from overseas.”
Pavilions
There will be a pavilion dedicated to the health ingredients sector and one representing China.
Seminars and Conferences
Assocom Institute of Bakery Technology and Management (AIBTM) will conduct a workshop.
A guest speaker (to be confirmed) will make a presentation titled Dairy fat replacers – Alternative to dairy fat, cholesterol-free, more economical than the dairy fats without altering the original quality of the end-product.
There will be live demonstration on varieties of bread by chef Vinita Hura and Ankit Dayal.
A guest speaker (to be confirmed) will make a presentation titled Cookie improvers/emulsifiers designed to improve quality characteristics of cookies. Helps control spread, increase stack height and improve crispness and mouth feel.
Ashni Kapoor will conduct a special lecture titled Thoda Kam – An FSSAI initiative to reduce sodium.
There will be a live demonstration on Middle-Eastern desserts – Charlotte Royale Mousse Cake by chef Mohit Sondhi.
A guest speaker (to be confirmed) will make a presentation titled Beverage clouding agents – Practical usage of clouding agents in beverages.
A guest speaker (to be confirmed) will make a presentation titled Natural colours and their use in various bakery goods.
Seminar Details
Rahul Deshpande, group director, UBM India Pvt. Ltd, will welcome the guests and propose the vote of thanks.
Yogesh Mudras, managing director, UBM India Pvt. Ltd, will give the opening remarks and unveil ProPak India.
Opening remarks will also be made by R B Smarta, secretary, Health Foods and Dietary Supplements Association (HADSA); Prabodh Halde, Association of Food Scientists and Technologists, India [AFST(I)], and P Muthumaran, director, FSSAI Mumbai.
Food Ingredients Market
“The potential of the Indian food and retail segment is enormous. It is estimated to be worth about 250 billion currently, and is projected to touch 482 billion by financial year (FY) 2020. The sector has a huge potential to attract investment, while creating a vast amount of employment. Several studies suggest that we can create 10 million jobs in the next four to five years, simply by providing impetus to the food industry,” said Mithia.
Challenges Faced
Fi India and Hi will bring top suppliers of health, natural and food ingredients and the processing and packaging industries under one roof, which will help the buyers to meet all their needs to grow their businesses.
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