Maharashtra FDA to introduce end-to-end traceability of milk to fight adulteration

In a bid to arrest the frequent and incidents of milk adulteration in Maharashtra, the State’s Food and Drug Administration has planned a massive digitisation initiative for end-to-end traceability of milk. The project intends to digitise milking records and link them to the milch animals, thereby helping authorities monitor real milk output. The initiative is in its nascent stage and will be rolled out once the project report for digitisation of milking records is completed, Maharashtra FDA Commissioner Tukaram Mundhe.

“We have started a project to start a  portal. All the milk collection centres will have to upload their data on that portal. The portal will be made, managed and monitored by the FDA. We will have access to this data and the data of the milch animals in that region which is uploaded on NDLM. This data will be available at the back-end. It won’t be available to front-end           users,” he said during an interview with mantralaya Times