A three member committee was directed by the NGT to probe the allegations of encroachment by stone crusher units on the river bed of Ganga flowing through Sahibganj in Jharkhand. The committee after visiting the site will submit its report within a period of three weeks. In case violations are …
THANKS to some mindless frenzy whipped up by the media, we are terribly concerned about swine flu, because deaths in double digits have been recorded in a country of a billion people. One wonders why the press has never been even mildly vociferous about the pathetic hygiene standards of our …
The government will soon appoint a Commissioner of Food Safety and a Food Safety Appellate Tribunal to check adulteration of food items and medicines. This was stated by Health Minister Rajiv Bindal while replying to the issue of adulteration in food items and medicines, raised by Kuldeep Pathania of the …
Joginder Singh Food adulteration, which is the act of intentionally debasing the quality of food offered for sale either by the admixture or substitution of inferior substances or by the removal of some valuable ingredient, is something that has been rampant in our country. This is so despite the existence …
For examination of adulteration in edible items Food and Drug Department is going to launch a mobile laboratory. In this laboratory primary examination of samples of edible items will be done on the spot. These mobile laboratories will do the job of surveyors. Its greatest advantage will be that there …
Infrared rays can easily detect the contaminant in milk in september 2008, milk contaminated with a chemical called melamine led to renal complications in 300,000 children of China; six died. This chemical, used in producing plastics and glues, is also used in food adulteration. The high nitrogen content in the …
NEW DELHI: Delhi Assembly Speaker Yoganand Shastri on Wednesday directed the State Government to take the issue of adulteration of food items more seriously and conduct more raids. Dr. Shastri issued the directions in the House after BJP MLA Karan Singh Tanwar raised the issue of large-scale adulteration of milk, …
JAIPUR: A month-long ambitious drive against adulteration of food and other consumer items started in Rajasthan on Monday. Random raids will be conducted across the State during the campaign to curb adulteration and stop malpractices such as black-marketing and cheating in weights and measures. Christened as
Health Dept Gets Spl Refrigerators To Store Samples Rumu Banerjee | TNN New Delhi: This summer, your complaints about vegetable adulteration may actually get addressed. The city health department is in the process of acquiring industrial size refrigerators, needed to store testing samples. Apparently, till now, prosecution of those found …
THE High Court directive to the government to set up food courts in every district and to appoint an adequate number of food analysts and inspectors within a year brings to the fore once again an issue of serious public concern. The verdict follows the submission of a petition filed …
At least 568 students of different primary schools in Laxmichhari upazila under Khagrachhari district fell sick after having biscuits distributed by the World Food Programme (WFP) yesterday. Of the victims, 140 are still hospitalised -- 85 at Manikchhari upazila health complex while 55 at Laxmichhari health complex. About 40 of …
Adulterated food items continue selling in the Dhaka city in the absence of proper monitoring by the agencies concerned, posing serious threat to public health. A large number of food shops, sweetmeat houses, restaurants and producers of such foods are selling adulterated items under the very nose of lawmen, said …
TIRUCHI: Adulterators, beware. Women in Tiruchi city will soon be scientifically identifying not only the quantum but also the type of adulterated material or substance mixed with food products and edible oils, courtesy the two-day training for a group of women inaugurated in the city on Monday. The training on
The Lahore High Court (LHC) here on Tuesday directed a commission headed by Shahid Karim to evaluate whether the four leading laboratories of the country have the ability to check adulteration of hazardous ingredients in the milk. The court further required to fined, which kind of instruments are required to …
Ahmedabad: One child died and ten others were critical after they consumed spurious soft drink at Chainapura in New Ranip on Wednesday. The children felt drowsy after having the spurious drink and had severe bouts of vomiting and dysentery, Bharti Amin, a 108 emergency ambulance official said. "We got a …
In just about every major contaminated food scare, Minnesotans become sick by the dozens while few people in Kentucky and other states are counted among the ill. In Kentucky, a county health worker called Lauren Threlkeld only to verify that she had fallen ill in another county. Contaminated peanuts? Forty-two …
