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Educational Activities |
| Communications project on a pilot scale in Maharashtra & Delhi - One Year mass communications project on nutrition education. USAID (1970) |
| Extension of the nutrition education programme
- Monitoring the campaign itself and evaluate the trends in nutrition knowledge.(1971) |
| School textbooks - PFNDAI has rewritten school textbooks in the areas of foods, health, digestion and sanitation. (1974) |
| "Vital India" Nutrition education programme - promotion of ‘Vital’ Brand soya flour. (1988) |
| The pulse of good health - 15 minutes video cassette (VHS/PAL) promoting SOYA FOODS(1989-90) |
| PFNDAI Awards for Best Research Project leading to Ph.D. & M.Sc.Degree in Food Science &Technology and Nutrition Science. |
| Promoting Educational Excellence: Funding for M.Sc. Project works in Food Science &Technology. |
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Nutrition Week Activity |
| Inter Collegiate Quiz, Poster competition, Seminars, Workshops, Slogan writing, Most Innovative Recipes… |
| Intercollegiate Quiz & Poster competition (2003) at P.N.Doshi Women’s University, Mumbai & Mount Caramel College, Bangalore |
| State level Intercollegiate Quiz competition (2004) at Lady Irwin College, New Delhi |
| Seminar on ‘Food Safety And Nutrition’ (2005) at Lady Irwin College, New Delhi |
| ‘Food And Nutrition in the Present day context’ (2005) at S.N.D.T.Women’s University |
| ‘The Role of Processed Foods in Nutrition & Good Health’ (2005) at Taj Gateway Hotel, Bangalore. |
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Nutritional Surveys |
| National Market survey for protein foods. USAID, (1969) |
| Food habits survey in Calcutta. USAID, (1969-70) |
| Food habits in the four southern states to introduce low-cost nutritious foods. USAID (1971) |
| Evaluation of, community canning and food preservation centres and mobile food and nutrition extension service units. Food & Nutrition Board (1977) |
| The Tamilnadu integrated nutrition project. World Bank (1980) |
| Impact evaluation of mobile foods a nutrition extension programme. Food & Nutrition Board (1983) |
| Revalidation of mobile food and nutrition extension programme. Food & Nutrition Board (1985) |
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State nutrition profiles in Eight States & Two Union Teritories (44 Districts covered) Food & Nutrition Board (1994-96) |
| PFNDAI survey on “Intake of Processed Foods”-2006 (in progress) |
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Consultancy Services |
| Consultancy provided to Food Crafts Institute, Pune in planning training units for young mothers to provide children with cheap but nutritious food (1970) |
| Consultancy for developing a nutritional supplement formulation. Food industry - Private sector, 1981 |
| Consultancy cell constituted within PFNDAI. |
| Consultancy provided to Lokmanya Tilak Hospital, Sion-Mumbai, 1990 |
| Consultancy for process development to incorporate natural proteins in clear and translucent shampoo. Multiproduct industry - Private sector, 1997 |
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Product Development and Assessment |
| Pilot study in fortified and packaged atta, USAID (1970) |
| Product test on soy milk. American Soybean Association, (1971) |
| Test marketing of packaged forified atta-modified plan. USAID (1973) |
| "Matruhar project" Development of low-cost cultutally aceptable pregnant/lactating women's food. Food & Nutrition Board (1976) |
| Manufacture of blanched, roasted and salted groundnuts. Food industry (1981) |
| Biscuit manufacture. Food industry (1981) |
| Cost reduction of an existing high-protein product through reformulation. Phrama industry (1982) |
| Development of nutritious beverage powder. Food industry (1982) |
| Processed soy foods (1985) |
| Sponsored a Project on ‘Frying Oils’-estimation of the absorption of oils by the foods during deep-frying. |
| Assessment of Vitamin A stability. |
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Seminar & Workshops |
| Grain Legumes ; Agronomy & crop investment ;
processing & storage; marketing & nutrition (1981) |
| Food Safety: Facts & Fallacies (1981) |
| Food Laws for food service personnel (1982) |
| Emerging trends in food industry - New Foods (1987) |
| Nutrition and health for all (1987) |
| Quality Management (1988) |
| Market potential for fresh and processed horticulture
produce (1989) |
| Bakery & confectionary products (1989) |
| Food Irradiation : Perspectives & Prospects (1990) |
| Oilseed Derivatives for our deficient economy - developing a market (1990) |
| High level short course on state-of-the-art Analytical techniques (1992) |
| Nutritional status of Indians - Role of food industries (1997) |
| Workshop on Food Laws (1999) |
| Workshop on Labelling of Packaged Foods (2000) |
| International Symposium on Food Additives (2002) |
| Workshop on Dietary Supplements Act (2002) |
| Workshop on Integrated Food Laws (2002) |
| Nutrition & Health for All (2003) |
| Nutraceuticals and Fortification of Food (2003) |
