CFTRI ready for supply of “immunity-boosting” food supplements

“We are waiting for the governments to respond”, CFTRI Director Sridevi Singh told The Hindu.

The CSIR-CFTRI, which ensured several consignments of “immunity-boosting” food items during last year’s lockdown, has renewed the offer during the ensuing lockdown. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Director General Shekhar C Mande had written to the Chief Secretaries of all the States, offering help from not only CFTRI, but also the other CSIR laboratories across the country. “We are waiting for the governments to respond”, CFTRI Director Sridevi Singh told The Hindu. Last year, a large volume of food items including high-protein rusk and zinc fortified mango bars, besides Spirulina based chikkis were distributed among the needy migrant workers and patients across the country. “CFTRI has licensees all over India. Through our licensees in Delhi, we had made food available to even to patients in All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)”, she said.