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. …
NEW DELHI: The Centre on Friday said none of the Ayurvedic medicines exported by leading Indian manufacturers has toxic heavy metals beyond permissible limits. Denying a report in a U.S. journal that detectable levels of lead, mercury or arsenic were found in some Ayurvedic products, Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss said …
Kounteya Sinha, TNN NEW DELHI: Genetically modified (GM) crops are now under the health ministry's scanner. Even as the ministry of environment readies to introduce GM food like the Bt Brinjal in India, Union health minister A Ramadoss has promised to oppose the move till proper research is conducted on …
KANCHEEPURAM: Union Minister for Health Anbumani Ramadoss on Tuesday said that he would oppose any move to introduce genetically modified food or seeds in the agriculture sector. Addressing a State-level farmer
CHENNAI: Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Anbumani Ramadoss on Saturday said that the State government was delaying handing over of land for some important projects.
Consumers will soon be able to figure out if a pack of biscuits, chips or juice is high in nutrients and low in fats. Labels of packaged foods must now compulsorily list nutritional facts per 100 gm or 100 ml or per serving. This has been spelt out by the …
NEW DELHI: Reviewing rules, the Union Health Ministry has now made it permissible to display specified health warnings just on retail packages of tobacco products. Following a representation from industry federations, the Ministry has clarified that the warnings need not be displayed on packages such as gunny bags. The rules …
BS Reporters / Chennai/kolkata/mumbai/new Delhi October 3, 2008, 0:55 IST It was just another day for smokers as well as vendors as the new nationwide law that kicked in prohibiting smoking in public places. Though most state governments said they were serious about implementing the new rule, people in cities …
New Delhi: For long a style statement for many, lighting up in front of your friends or peers will not be such a good idea any more with the ban on smoking in public places coming into force on Thursday. A pet project of Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss, the …
NEW DELHI: Day One of the ban on smoking at public spaces turned out to be a relatively easy affair for the implementing agencies like the New Delhi Municipal Council, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi and Northern Railway. For it was a public holiday because of Gandhi Jayanti. While the …
With the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare determined to implement the rule of no smoking at all public places, including restaurants, hotels, pubs and discotheques, the hotel industry approached the former on Thursday, asking for various exemptions under the new rule. The ministry, however, firm on its decision, handed …
These rules may be called the Prevention of Food Adulteration (5th Amendment) Rules, 2008. They shall come into force on the expiry of a period of six months from the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
NEW DELHI: Demanding more funds to give a fillip to the National Tobacco Control Programme, the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry has suggested that additional funds collected through taxes on tobacco products be transferred to it. Addressing a press conference here after inaugurating a
Smokers beware! The government is empowering school principals, postmen, railway station masters, even your boss to book you if you're caught smoking in a public place after October 2 , the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. The health ministry has already sent the rule for gazette notification and will make …
Having been deferred for more than a year now, pictorial warnings on the packaging of tobacco products will finally be introduced on November 30. The Union Health Ministry has been trying to implement this visual
