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 …
Delhi’s Food Safety Department has started lifting samples of health food, baby food and energy drinks of various brands for test-analysis as directed by the Central government. The move comes a few days after the Delhi government banned the sale of instant Maggi noodles. According to officials, the food samples …
India’s food safety apparatus needs sweeping reforms to ensure that its norms are on par with international standards, including an accreditation system that not only screens labs but also its personnel on a regular basis, according to the head of a key panel of India’s national food safety authority. ”It …
India's food products market is nearly ₹25 lakh crore and in the next five years it is expected too shoot over ₹40 lakh crore. In this scenario the role of the food regulator, Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) is crucial. However, the FSSAI is in a pathetic …
After facing queries from the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), Tata Starbucks has suspended the use of ingredients not approved by the former in certain products served at its Indian outlets. In a statement, the joint venture company of Tata Global Beverages and Seattle-based Starbucks Coffee Co …
INDORE: Several popular packaged instant food items are failing the quality test, besides Maggi noodles by Nestle. Three samples of Ching's Secret, another leading packed food manufacturer, were found to be sub-standard by the Indore's Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Failing to meet standards, FDA initiated prosecution against the manufacturer …
With the line between food and drug blurring, the queue of such products and supplements waiting for approval is growing rapidly, a senior official at FSSAI says Even as the Maggi noodle contamination issue has reached the courts, the next round of regulatory alarm might hit manufacturers of health supplements, …
Days after lead was found in instant food Maggi that had raised concerns over packed food items, an analysis of blood samples collected over a period of one year from across the country has revealed that over 23 per cent of the total samples tested positive with lead poisoning. A …
A majority of Americans waste more food than they are aware of -- $162 billion worth of it each year -- according to a new study from Johns Hopkins University. And most are unconcerned about the environmental impact of wasted food, the study also found. The report, published Wednesday in …
Maggi brand has been under the regulatory scanner due to allegations that the product contains higher than permissible levels of lead and traces of monosodium glutamate (MSG). The Maggi controversy is likely to be a stepping stone in the evolution of country’s packaged and processed food industry, which could result …
PANJIM: The controversy over Maggi noodles has brought all Nestle products under the scanner of the Goa Food and Drugs Administration. Taking note of the high content of lead and monosodium glutamate (MSG) in Nestle’s Maggi noodles, Food Safety and Standard Authority of India (FSSAI) has asked the state FDA …
Food safety squads have been posted in all districts in the State to ensure that there is no sale of the banned Maggi noodles in the State, Health Minister V.S. Sivakumar has said. The squads would conduct searches at retail outlets for a week from Tuesday to ensure that there …
FDAs across India may take punitive actions against manufacturers, if products found to be sub-standard The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) on Monday asked states to conduct thorough tests on “non-standardised food products” such as noodles, pasta, and macaroni made by seven manufacturers. States may take punitive …
NEW DELHI: India, the world's fifth largest instant noodles market till the other day, looks set to lose that status as sales in the category have crashed by about 80% across the country following the Maggi controversy, according to retailers and industry insiders. The controversy over high lead content in …
THANE: Following the recent controversy surrounding the ban on Maggi noodles, city doctors, environmental activists and field experts have said that anything that is considered a green and healthy diet could be drowned in pesticide and insecticide or irrigated by waste water along the railway lines. and field experts have …
Nestle withdraws product, FSSAI orders recall. Hours after Nestle decided to take Maggi noodles off the shelves in India citing “unfounded confusions”, the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) on Friday ordered recall of all nine variants of the popular instant noodles from the market, terming the product …
The Maggi imbroglio escalated to an unprecedented level on Friday , with India's food regulator ordering a total recall of all nine variants of the best-selling instant noodles brand. This is the first ever recall of a popular food product in India. TOI was the only newspaper to report, in …
Tamil Nadu banned the manufacture, stocking and sale of Maggi and three other noodle brands — Wai Wai Xpress Noodles, Reliance Select Instant Noodles and Smith and Jones Chicken Masala Noodles — on Thursday for three months after samples of the products were found to contain unacceptable levels of lead. …
KATHMANDU, June 5: The government on Wednesday banned the import and sale of Nestle's Maggi noodles in Nepal until further notice, following a ban on the noodle brand in different Indian states. Maggi noodles, which has a majority market share in India, was banned in different Indian states including Delhi …
M/S Nestle India Ltd. is aware of the currently on-going nation-wide concerns regarding the safety of its food products cited under the above subject. Pursuant to the sampling and testing of the said product by the establishment of the office of Commissioner of Food Safety, Uttar Pradesh and recognising the …
Union Health Minister J.P. Nadda said on Wednesday that his Ministry would take appropriate action against instant noodles brand Maggi, based on the reports from all the States. “We are waiting for the reports from the States. We will have a meeting and accordingly action will be taken. No laxity …
