Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur appearing in The Hindu dated 19.05.2025". The application is registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled 2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit …
Vidya Krishnan, Sreenivas Janyala & Gopu Mohan: UNTIL a few months back, Avinashilingam University for Women in Coimbatore was known for little except the courses it offered. Suddenly, the university in Tamil Nadu finds itself at the peak of a health drink advertisement campaign, based on a research it conducted. …
Britannia goes for palm oil britannia Industries Ltd has decided to remove trans fats from its entire range of baked products by the end of this year. The reason, company officials said, was growing scientific evidence of trans fats affecting health adversely. It is reducing trans fats by switching from …
The Punjab Agro Industries Corporation (PFIC) has approved to grow olive on 400 acres. Punjab Agro earlier invited tender in the Economist to assess demand of olive cultivation to which six companies evinced interest. The corporation has selected Israeli company Indolive, which has set up olive orchards in six places …
AMIT GUPTA Ranchi, March 1: If the Ranchi Municipal Corporation (RMC) has its way, you will soon be able to gorge on street food without fear. The civic body is making sincere efforts to get
Commercial interests determine content The oil we eat is essential for our body to function. We cannot do without it. Thus it is important to understand its chemistry. It is agreed that healthy oil is one which has less saturated fat, more monounsaturated fat (mufa) and polyunsaturated fats (pufa) is …
Heart diseases Trans fats in the hydrogenated oils are worse than saturated fats. They decrease the amount of good cholesterol (hdl). This makes consumption of hydrogenated fats especially bad for the heart. For example, increase of five grammes of trans fats per day could lead to a 25 per cent …
Partially hydrogenated oils have an assured market in India. They are cheaper and easier to use in processed food industry and commercial eateries. The other reason for its popularity is Indian regulations do not spell the need to specify the oil used to make vanaspati. This, when the business of …
Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954 includes specific standards on edible oils giving broad specification for different oils. The act allows two different oils to be blended and sold. The specifications do not lay down guidelines on fatty acid composition of different oils. There are specifications for vanaspati. Companies can …
Which cooking oil is best for us? Why do I ask? Are we not bombarded with advertising messages telling us there is a healthy oil that is good for the heart? They talk of monounsaturated fatty acids (mufa), and polyunsaturated fatty acids (pufa) and of course, catch-us-words like omega properties. …
G.S. MUDUR New Delhi, Feb. 3: The levels of dangerous transfats in vegetable oils sold in India remain unregulated more than a year after a government panel had recommended standards for these hazardous fats, a non-government agency said today. The Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi, said all seven …
Sunita Narain, who hit the headlines in 2003 on claims that soft drinks like Pepsi and Coke have high pesticide content, has now targeted the vanaspati industry for high trans fat levels. Narain-led Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has conducted a study on major vanaspati brands like Dalda, Rath, …
Kounteya Sinha | TNN New Delhi: Trans fat, a known trigger for heart attacks, causing thousands of premature deaths globally every year, has been found in tremendously high quantities in almost all popular Indian cooking oils. Laboratory tests conducted by Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) on seven vanaspati …
