Trade in processed food
Access to safe and nutritious food is essential for good health and is linked to Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly SDG 2: Zero Hunger
Processed Foods
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Full meal or package deal?
With lobbying going on to replace cooked meals in the mid-day meal programme with processed foods like biscuits, this article reports on a consultation earlier this year that saw academicians, medical professionals, and nutrition and public health experts discuss the impact of providing dry rations versus cooked foods.
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Nutritional value of germinated wheat and soybean based supplementary foods
An experiment was conducted to develop and evaluate energy and protein rich supplementary foods. Products namely Seviyan, Halwa, Pinjiri and Pinni were developed using combinations of germinated wheat and soybean and carrot powder for 4-6 years old children. Organoleptic evaluation, proximate principles, carotene, iron and calcium were determined using standardized methods.
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The M in IMA
<font class="UCASE">recently,</font> the Indian Medical Association (<font class="UCASE">ima</font>) earned the dubious distinction of being the first association of medical professionals in the world to endorse a food brand. And that too of a company best known for its brands of non-nutritive and unsafe carbonated beverages. Going by the law of the land, this "endorsement' is illegal. The Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954 clearly makes it illegal to label foods as wothy of being recommended by the medical profession.
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IMA to endorse PepsiCo's food products
<font class="UCASE">the </font> Indian Medical Association (<font class="UCASE">ima</font>) will now endorse PepsiCo's Tropicana fruit juices and its breakfast cereal Quaker Oats
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Personal Thought: Processed food eating costs health
It's no secret that over the past few decades, an increasing number of Americans have been coping with a personal energy crisis: an over-consumption of body "fuel" that has contributed to soaring rates of obesity, adult-onset diabetes, and a host of related health problems.
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Oceanic Edibles to set up food processing units
Ties up with farmers for contract farming of prawns Unveiling plans The proposed processing plant will have two units (to process marine foods and vegetables and fruits) with an overall 3.5 tonnes an hour capacity. The firm's hatcheries division will supply seed and feed with buyback guarantee to farmers with whom it has tied up for contract farming. R. Ravikumar
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Simplifying the pesticide: the organic option risk equation
This new State of Science Review by The Organic Center on pesticide residues and risk provides answers to frequently asked questions about relatively-high risk foods, as well as foods that pose no or modest dietary risks. Their findings are encouraging.
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Food safety standards and export competitiveness in the food and processed food industries in Asia-Pacific countries
Developing country producers face several constraints related to food safety standards imposed by developed countries. The purpose of this study is to identify factors affecting export flows with respect to food safety standards; and to measure the effects of food safety standards on exports. This study incorporates a food safety variable in a gravity model.
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The poultry industry in India
This paper seeks to capture the dynamics of the industry over the more recent past. Utilizing production, price and export data from the period 1995 to 2004, the study seeks to: examine the trends and
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Bottled poison
Most bottled water brands are contaminated in Pakistan