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 …
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 …
The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India has pulled up the state government for its failure to ensure the supply of quality ration to the people. In its annual report, the CAG said there was no testing laboratory or trained manpower for conducting quality inspection of the foodgrains supplied …
A large number of people have been hospitalised across the city after eating adulterated flour (kuttu ka atta) during Navratri. The patients had common complaints, including stomach ache, nausea, diarrhoea and fever. Patients came in large numbers to Guru Tegh Bahadur Hospital, Lal Bahadur Shastri Hospital, Hedgewar Hospital and Jagpravesh …
Thanks to a Delhi High Court order, senior law officers of the Central as well as Delhi government will soon be seen buying vegetables across the Capital. The court, on Wednesday, directed senior government lawyers to fetch vegetables from different mandis across Delhi, so that they could be taken to …
These rules may be called the Prevention of Food Adulteration (1st Amendment) Rules, 2011. They shall come into force on the date of their final publication in the Official Gazette.
While considering several expert reports, including the World Bank, on ill effects of carbonated soft drinks and growing adulteration in food products, the Supreme Court on Tuesday quashed the panel of scientific experts set up under the new food safety law after finding that several of its members had been …
After hearing the submissions by amicus curiae in connection with a PIL alleging rampant use of banned pesticides in fruits and vegetables, the Delhi high court on Wednesday decided to hear the issue on March 9. Amicus curie V.K. Rao and Saket Sikri submitted to the HC that there were …
LUCKNOW: In a welcome first, officials of the department of food and drug administration will now conduct door-to-door purity tests on milk and milk products in residential colonies in the state capital and across the state. What's more, the tests will be done free-of-cost and in all parts of the …
