Quick test for food contamination
The first-ever indigenous low-cost pathogen kit, use to check food contamination, is all set to hit the market. Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad will inaugurate the kits this week. Developed by
The first-ever indigenous low-cost pathogen kit, use to check food contamination, is all set to hit the market. Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad will inaugurate the kits this week. Developed by
The Consumer Federation Tamil Nadu (CONFET) has appealed to Chief Minister Jayalalithaa to arrange suitable compensation, as provided for under the Food Safety and Standards Act, to the family of A. Abirami
The Supreme Court today asked the states to give up their lenient attitude towards those responsible for adulteration of milk and milk products with hazardous synthetic substances as the issue involved
दूध में वाशिंग पाउडर, कास्टिक सोडा, यूरिया और ह्वाइटनर जैसे खतरनाक पदार्थो की मिलावट पर सुप्रीम कोर्ट नें गहरी चिंता जताई है। उसने राज्यों से इस बाबत कानून सख्त करने के लिए कहा है। शीर्ष अदालत ने भारतीय
Following reports of substandard food products sold by leading business groups, the Jammu and Kashmir High Court today directed three leading companies to deposit Rs 10 crore each. A division bench of Muzaffar Hussain Attar and Tashi Rabistan directed Delhi-based spice company A-1 Agro Products and Srinagar-based Khyber and Kanwal Spices groups to deposit the amount in the account of the Director, Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, within two weeks.
Washington : Firms from India and other nations supplying food to the US may soon find it costlier to do businesses with the US proposing a new rule that requires them to address vulnerable processes in
The Supreme Court on Thursday favoured life imprisonment to people indulging in production and marketing of adulterated milk and asked state governments to make amendments to laws. A bench of Justices
This Diwali, many housewives in the city are preparing sweets at home for the festival due to fear of adulteration in sweets available in markets. "Around this time of the year, the worst quality of khoya is available in the market. In the past few months, the price of milk and other raw materials has increased which implies that adulterated sweets are flooding the market," said Nirmala Mishra, a housewife. She added, "After a gap of at least 10 years, I am making for the festival sweets at home. These are at least pure and of better quality besides being cheaper than the ones available in market."
Looking at the increase in sale of dry fruits ahead of Diwali, the health department officials inspected shops in the Walled City on Wednesday evening for the quality of dry fruits being sold. This inspection is to ensure that the shopkeepers are selling the right quality of dry fruits so that customers don’t get cheated on. It is a part of the campaign, which the health department has launched ahead of Diwali.
The draft of the Safe Food Law -2013 is going to be passed during the ongoing parliament session with a provision for 14-year imprisonment as the highest punishment for food adulteration, a high food official
With overwhelming majority milk samples supplied across the country failing to meet the food safety and standard norms, the Rajasthan milk production has come under sharp focus. Being the second largest
Common nutritional supplement milk you take may not be all that nutritious as majority of samples of milk supplied across the country failed to meet the food safety and standard norms. The Centre on Tuesday dished out this startling fact about the health of milk supplied both loose or in packets and informed the apex court that 68.4% of the samples collected from rural and urban areas of all states failed food safety and standards (FSS).
Indian basmati meant for exports is blended with a small percentage of non basmati long grain varieties. Now complaints are mounting that this blending of low quality non basmati in the basmati varieties,
CHENNAI: While lab tests across the country throw up details of chemical adulterants in milk, people in Tamil Nadu have no way of knowing what's in their drink. On the eve of 'World Milk Day,' the state's
With adulteration of milk being a widespread problem in India, the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has developed a handy device to detect the presence of harmful additives in milk.
Nearly two years after the Food Safety and Standards Act (FSSA) came into effect, Kerala is still struggling with lack of infrastructure and human resource constraints to implement the Act in letter and
We need a food safety model based on societal objectives of nutrition, livelihood and safety. My local vegetable vendor sells ordinary lemons packed in plastic bags. It has got me thinking if this is
Highest number of samples was collected from Model Town followed by Kotwali The Delhi Government has in the past five years tested 14,761 samples for food adulteration of which 886 samples have been found to be in violation of standards. Of the total samples, 1,668 samples were taken last year and 3,148 in 2011.
Summons against two directors of a company also cancelled The Delhi High Court has quashed a complaint and summons against two directors of a company being prosecuted by the Delhi Government’s Department of Food Adulteration under the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act. Justice P. K. Bhasin quashed the complaint filed by the Department and the summons issued by the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, New Delhi, quoting a Supreme Court ruling that a director of a company cannot be prosecuted in a case unless he is specifically sought to be prosecuted on the ground that he was actually in charge of affairs of the company at the time of commission of crime by his firm.
Section 16(2)(c), of the FSS Act, 2006 provides for the mechanism for accreditation of certification bodies for Food Safety Management Systems and Section 44 of FSS Act provides for recognition of organization