Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
“However, no dangerous adulterants found; it is safe for consumption” “The milk available in Delhi is not contaminated with detergent but was found to be non-conforming to the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) guidelines and adulteration was found in these samples,” said FSSAI CEO V. N. Gaur …
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed the Food Safety Standards Authority of India to frame an effective policy and guidelines to ban sale of junk food and carbonated drinks in and around educational institutions across the country. A Division Bench of the Court comprising acting Chief Justice A. K. …
The Central government cannot prohibit or restrict “junk food” or “proprietary food” such as samosas, jalebis, pizzas and burgers, but will come up with guidelines to make available only healthy food in schools. The Delhi High Court on Wednesday gave six months’ time to the Food Safety and Standards Authority …
NGOs have claimed that recent reports suggesting that one of the pictorial warnings for tobacco products resembles footballer John Terry could be an attempt by the manufacturers to scuttle the pictorial warnings once again. In a recent RTI filed by the Voluntary Health Association of India (VHAI), the issue was …
With the ministry of health having given the green signal for allograft or the transplanting of tissues from one person to another, a major push for tissue transplant was given at the 99th Indian Science Congress by scientist Rajyalakshi Manda. Dr Manda stressed that tissue transplanting has a long history …
With the “non-communicable diseases” high on agenda both at international and national level, the theme is widely publicised in 2012 wall calendar of the Union ministry of health and family welfare. Unlike the traditional calendars that adorn photographs related to the ongoing programmes, National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), Asha workers …
The central government’s plans to introduce a new rule under the existing Drugs and Cosmetics Act to compensate clinical trial victims has been challenged before the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court. In a public interest petition (PIL), Lucknow based health activist Raahul Dutta has questioned several provisions in …
The infant mortality rate (IMR) has shown a 3 point decline, dropping from 50 deaths per 1,000 live births to 47 and moving a step closer to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) target of 30. However, IMR increased by one point in Kerala, Mizoram and Dadra and Nagar Haveli. …
The government is likely to announce setting up of a national programme to deal with the danger posed by Japanese Encephalitis (JE) and Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) on Tuesday. Officials in the Union health ministry disclosed that the GoM, which is slated to meet on Tuesday, is likely to announce …
Kerala is facing a shortage of Vitamin A, which is administered to children below five as a supplementation. For the last two months, there has been an acute shortage of the vitamin as the supply from the Central pool has decreased. ‘’There is an overall shortage of Vitamin A. However, …
Faced with criticism on its clinical trial regulations, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has undertaken a slew of measures to streamline them, the most important being a proposed change in the rules of the Drugs and Cosmetics Rules 1945, which mandaates that in case of a death or …
Faced with an overall immunisation rate of 61 per cent and with even poster state Tamil Nadu steadily slipping, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare plans to designate 2012-13 as the year of “intensification of routine immunisation”. It has identified 204 districts in the country with less than 50 …
Dismissing reports of the deaths of children after administration of pentavalent vaccine in Sri Lanka, Bhutan and Pakistan as unrelated, the Centre has decided to introduce this vaccine as part of the routine immunisation programme in Kerala on Wednesday. The vaccine, that will prevent children from five life-threatening diseases, will …
Wants to take control of medicine price regulator from the chemicals ministry. The health ministry may oppose the market-based price fixing model suggested in the draft National Pharmaceutical Pricing Policy (NPPP). The ministry is of the opinion that a market-based pricing strategy, which in a broad sense takes the average …
Bezawada — Vijayawada is better known by that name — is the first feature film to carry health warnings on every smoking scene as required under the just notified second amendment of the Rules of the Cigarette and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, …
Over five years after the Union health ministry finalised the draft of the HIV/AIDS Bill, it is likely to see the light of day. On Thursday, World AIDS Day, health minister Ghul-am Nabi Azad said the government would soon enact legislation to end discrimination against HIV/AIDS patients. The draft bill …
“The HIV/AIDS Bill that is still pending with the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry should be tabled and passed in the ongoing winter session of Parliament.” This was a sentiment echoed by social activists and People Living with HIV and AIDS (PLHIV) who had gathered in the Capital for …
“We aim to immunise all children in the age group of nine months to 10 years irrespective of their immunisation status. This is part of the Central Government's massive anti-measles catch-up vaccination drive that will try and cover more than 13 crore children in 14 vulnerable States,” said Union Health …
The disease has claimed 861 lives so far with 470 in U.P. alone Concerned over the high mortality and morbidity because of Japanese encephalitis (JE) and acute encephalitis syndrome (AES), the Group of Ministers (GoM) held its first meeting here on Monday to discuss short, medium and long-term measures needed …
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government is keen on including iodised salt in the public distribution system (PDS) in order to ensure access by the lowest rung of the society and tackle the high prevalence of iodine deficiency disorders (IDDs) in the population, said Health Secretary Anu Garg . The proposed project …
