FSSAI–BMC street-food training crosses 57 sessions as Mumbai targets safer informal food vending

The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India and Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation conducted their 57th food-safety training session for street food vendors in Andheri, Mumbai, on 30 September.

Around 50 vendors attended the session, which covered personal hygiene, safe food handling, contamination prevention, cleaning of preparation areas and hygienic storage and serving. The programme operates under an FSSAI–BMC memorandum of understanding intended to cover more than 10,000 street food vendors in Mumbai.

Street food is an important urban livelihood and affordable food source, so food-safety policy has to balance public-health protection with workable compliance for small vendors. Training can improve knowledge, but sustained safety also depends on access to clean water, waste disposal, storage, licensing support and inspection systems.

For civil-services preparation, the programme is a local-governance case study at the intersection of public health and informal livelihoods. Training counts are an implementation measure; reductions in foodborne illness or compliance failures require separate outcome data.