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 …
Since 1949, China has shown the capacity to provide adequate nutrition to most of its population. Feeding one-fifth of humankind with only 9 percent of the world's arable land is not easy. Per capita nutrition has increased from less than 1,700 calories per day in 1960 to more than 2,700 …
the Delhi government's Prevention of Food Adulteration (pfa) Department has recently seized 20 samples of substandard milk. The 20 samples were a part of 63 samples taken from milk tankers entering Delhi from Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, as well as, from milk dairies and polypack milk supplied by different companies. …
Two managers of a fats recycling firm have been charged with fraud for Europe's dioxin-in-food scare ( Down To Earth , Vol 8, No 4). "There are two people who have been questioned by the judge, a brother and sister, the two managers of the business. The woman was released, …
The Delhi High Court has issued notice to the director of the Central Bureau of Investigation asking him to place before it the probe report on the adulteration of mustard oil which resulted in outbreak of dropsy claiming over 60 lives last year. The court also asked the Delhi government …
L N MODI, the managing trustee of the Bharatiya Cattle Research Foundation, Delhi, said that adulteration of milk is on the rise. Speaking at a press confer- ence in Delhi, he informed that in 1996, as many as 900 cases of adulteration were recorded in Meerut, Faizabad, Agra, Bareilly and …
THE ZING went out of Indian cooking and a nationwide panic gripped the country as mustard oil, the country's most favoured cooking medium, had to be banned and all stocks seized by the government. Among these were also stocks belonging to the prestigious National Dairy Development Board. The mustard oil …
OVER centuries we have written innumerable laws to protect ourselves from each other's foolishness, negligence, incompetence or evil. Few of those laws forbid anything absolutely. Murder we can get away with, in self-defence or insanity. We can build on floodplains, if we really want to. The law is strict about …
TAKING a cue from the Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) controversy, the government has decided to make changes in the level of monosodium glutamate permitted in food. The KFC's Delhi outlet reopened on December 4, following the Delhi High Court ruling quashing the Delhi municipal corporation's order cancelling its licence. It …
Welcome to the official website of the 2014 International Conference on Food Sciences and Health (ICFSH 2014) will be held during November 29-30, 2014 in Mauritius. ICFSH 2014, is to bring together innovative academics and industrial experts in the field of Food Sciences and Health to a common forum. The …
Honey में मिलावट का खेल सामने आया है. जितने बड़े Brand का आप Honey इस्तेमाल को सोचते होंगे उन सारे ही Brands के Honey में Sugar Syrup की मिलावट का वाख्या सामने आया है. चाहे Dabur हो या Patanjali, ये बड़े Brands के Honey में मिलावट पाई गई है.
DNA: CSE has found that Chinese sugar syrup is being added to the honey by most companies In this part of the DNA, we will do the DNA Test of International honey mafias. According to the information, the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has found that Chinese sugar syrup …
On The Urban Debate tonight, Tanvi Shukla discusses the adulteration of honey that has been claimed by Delhi based advocacy group, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) on Wednesday. CSE has claimed that 77 percent of samples from India's top honey brands were found to use the modified syrup in …
In this episode of Aapki Khabar Aapka Fayda, know about what CSE has declared about the honey and what's the connection between China and the companies manufacturing honey.