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 …
Sample unfit for human consumption, says lab report The Haryana State Federation of Consumers’ Cooperative Wholesale Stores (CONFED) is under the scanner for supply of wheat, for mid-day meal in a Panchkula school, which was found ‘unfit for human consumption’. The matter came to light on August 28, when teachers …
With the coming into force of the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006, the state government has started the process to check the sale of adulterated food. The government has appointed district food safety officers and gave powers to other officials to check the violations and impose heavy fines. Earlier, …
Bangalore : Promises by State authorities notwithstanding, citizens’ complaints about adulterated food products will be left unattended until the government frames rules and regulations under the Food Safety and Standards Act (FSSA), 2006. The FSSA Bill, which was introduced by the Centre in 2006, became an Act on August 5, …
The state government is the process of establishing a tribunal and special courts to deal with cases pertaining to food adulteration. The state government’s move comes in wake of the new central Food Safety and Standard Act, 2006, replacing the existing Prevention of Food Adulteration Act. The Act comes into …
JAIPUR: With the implementation of the Food Safety and Standards (FSS) Act 2006 in the state from Friday, a penalty of up to Rs 10 lakh would be imposed for distribution or sale unhygienic and adulterated food. The accused person will get a minimum of six months or life imprisonment. …
Your favourite dhaba near your office and the vendor selling hot kathi rolls and momos in the neighbourhood market will have to ensure minimum standards of food safety soon. A new set of rules that comes into force on Friday states that all smalltime food sellers including hawkers, itinerant vendors …
You may land in jail if you are caught selling adulterated food from Friday, with the Food Safety Standards Act coming into effect. The Act proposes stringent action against violators, ranging from a fine of Rs 10,00,000 to life imprisonment. “There will be much better supervision of safety of food. …
The Delhi government is likely to enforce this month a new legislation that provides for a jail term and heavy penalties for vendors who provide substandard or adulterated food products. The Delhi Cabinet on Monday approved rules for enforcing the Food Safety and Standard Act, 2006, which classifies sub-standard food …
New Delhi: The Central and state governments on Wednesday informed the Delhi High Court that tests ordered by them on vegetables showed permissible levels of pesticides in them. Submitting their reports before a division bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Sanjiv Khanna, both the governments also stated that …
New Delhi: Energy drinks being sold in India have dangerous levels of caffeine, NGO Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has said after conducting lab tests in which 44% of their samples failed the maximum permissible limits as prescribed by the government. CSE carried out tests on leading
Demonstrators from a human chain on Friday called for taking stern action against the business of adulterated and poisonous foods that were sickening and killing innocent consumers. Business in chemically poisoned foods and fruits has not stopped despite anti-adulteration drives of the government, the demonstrators alleged. The human chain was …
'Doodh Ka Doodh Pani Ka Pani Abhiyan' is being conducted by Bhopal Cooperative Dairy Federation with a view to making consumers aware of adulteration in milk. As many as 119 out of 172 samples were found sub-standard at a camp organised by Madhya Pradesh State Cooperative Dairy Federation at Bhopal. …
This may not be good news for the Mango lovers. The chemical calcium caribide used for ripening of the king of fruits is carcinogenic and thus the final product is cancerous. Taking a note of this, the Delhi Government has issued strict directions to the mango traders to use ethylene …
In view of reports of presence of antibiotics in honey which threatens to induce resistance to life-saving drugs, the country's food watchdog has alerted its officials and States to keep a check on the quality of products in the local market as also those being imported in the country. Food …
In a startling revelation, 12 brands of organic tea, tested by the Consumer Education and Research Society (CERS) in Ahmedabad, showed traces of heavy metals in them. The findings have been published by CERS in the March-April 2011 issue of its consumer magazine, Insight. Of the 12 brands, seven were …
Delhi Health Minister A. K. Walia has said that the State Government would be enforcing the new Food Safety and Standard Act-2006 within the next three months, thereby ensuring heavy fine and punishment of up to life imprisonment for adulteration. Also, all food establishments would now be required to procure …
The Delhi government is all set to introduce the Food Safety and Standard Act-2006 in the coming months. The new Act will have more stringent provisions, and to settle cases faster, many of the offences will be decided by an officer of the rank of sub-divisional magistrate. Health department officials …
In a crackdown on food adulteration, the Delhi government on Wednesday said that a new law with stringent provisions, including life term, would come in force in three months
Pesticide overuse, irrigation by untreated sewage water, poor sanitation at food markets, and faulty cold storages. Punjab and Haryana, as major foodgrain, fruit, vegetable, poultry and milk producing states, are yet to eliminate food safety hazards. Now, they will have to do all this and more under a new set …
The problem of adulteration in food items in Delhi appears to be reaching epic proportions with analysis report of samples of pulses and spices lifted on April 19 by the Prevention of Food Adulteration department of the Delhi Government revealing that all of them were indeed adulterated. The samples had …
