⇒ The Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi launched a Portal and Logo dedicated to the Conformity Assessment Scheme of milk products, in Varanasi on 23 December 2021.
Developed by:
The Portal and Logo have been developed by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) with the help of National Dairy Development Board (NDDB).
With the initiative of the Department of Animal Husbandry & Dairying, Government of India, after extensive stakeholder consultation, a unified Conformity Assessment Scheme was chalked out by BIS with the help of NDDB.
This is a novel and first of its kind certification scheme considering the perishable nature and short shelf-life of milk and milk products, as well as the extensive cold-chain involved in the production and supply of milk and milk products.
Logo:
This has brought ‘Product–Food Safety Management System–Process’ certification under one umbrella with a unified logo featuring the earlier respective logos BIS-ISI mark & NDDB-Quality Mark and Kamdhenu Cow.