Edible Oils

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding violation of environmental norms by a tyre pyrolysis plant, village Sakauti, Shamli, Uttar Pradesh, 28/05/2025

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Dr. Amit Kumar Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 28/05/2025. The applicant has raised a grievance against setting up of a tyre pyrolysis plant by M/s Adideva Carbon LLP. According to the applicant, the tyre pyrolysis plant has …

In Short

>> Mali's government has ordered the closure of 104 refined cooking oil factories across the country after an investigation revealed most of them don't have necessary equipment to produce safely-refined cooking oil. Most of the cooking oil contain gossypol, a toxic substance naturally produced by cotton plants, which causes sterility, …

Eco friendly printing ink from vegetable oil

printing ink from vegetable oils is a good replacement for the mineral-based ink used currently. Vegetable oil is environment friendly, claims a study. "It will reduce the organic compounds released during printing,' says Santinath Ghosh from the department of Chemical Technology at the Calcutta University. "Volatile organic compounds leads to …

Household consumer expenditure in India, 2005-06

This report presents data on both level of consumption measured by the sum of monetary values of goods and services consumed per month by households and pattern of consumption reflected in the composition of total consumption by commodity group. The report also presents distribution of households and persons over different …

Oilseeds in non-traditional areas

The rising gap between demand and production of edible oils has led to a fast rise in imports of vegetable oils since the eighties. About one half of current consumption of edible oils in recent years (1998-2002) is being met through imports. The policy of self-sufficiency in edible oils resulted …

Sri Lanka`s edible oil units shut production

all Sri Lankan factories manufacturing edible oil for export to India have shut down production in protest against India's decision to restrict the product's duty-free import. Local officials, however, are hopeful of a settlement. On June 4, India announced controls on vanaspati imports from Sri Lanka, saying only the state-run …

Eating out

The business of food is not restricted to processed food. Today, Indian homes increasingly buy processed or packaged cereals and processed edible oils to cook food. Several steps have been added in the journey from the field to the plate. The farmer, the only producer earlier, is today seen as …

Go ahead for Indo ASEAN free trade agreement

the prime minister's Trade and Economic Relations Committee (terc) has , recently, given the green light for the implementation of the free trade agreement (fta) with the Association of South East Asian Nations (asean) from January 1, 2007. The Indo- asean free trade agreement is the biggest trade pact India …

Safe recipe

edibleoils may have a use outside the kitchen, too. A New Zealand scientist claims cooking oils like sunflower oil can replace the volatile, toxic solvents used to prepare antibiotics such as penicillin and several other industrially significant plant-based products. Currently, penicillin is produced mainly by submerged aerobic fermentation using butyl …

Packaged and enriched

The gujarat government has banned the sale of loose edible oil in the state from January 1, 2006, to check oil adulteration and avoid health hazards. The state civil supply department also imposed a compulsory fortification of the oil with vitamin e to improve the nutritional level in the state. …

Food for oil

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Unhealthy shift

Till the mid 1970s, oils extracted from indigenously grown oilseeds constituted the major chunk of our edible oil consumption. Groundnut oil was the most consumed (about 53 per cent), followed by mustard oil (25 per cent) and cottonseed oil (around 9 per cent). Palm, soyabean and sunflower oils made up …

Physicochemical evaluation of Vanaspati marketed in India

Nine different brands of commercial vanaspati were analyzed for their various physicochemical characteristics. The Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy spectra showed the characteristic peak at 966/cm corresponding to trans compounds for all the samples examined. The fatty acid composition showed that the trans fatty acid (elaidic acid) content ranged from 5.9 …

Oil s not well

Prem Chand Goyal, proprietor, BR Oil Mills in Bharatpur, Rajasthan is usually quite a phlegmatic character. But any talk of his trade is enough to ruffle his placid exterior. "My unit can crush 1,000 sacks of mustard seeds every day, but it is functioning at only half its capacity,' he …

Detection of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in commonly consumed edible oils and their likely intake in the Indian population

Edible oils such as coconut, groundnut, hydrogenated vegetable, linseed, mustard, olive, palm, refined vegetable, rice bran, safflower, sesame, soybean, and sunflower were analyzed for the presence of light and heavy polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) residues using liquid-liquid extraction, cleanup on a silica gel column, and resolution and determination by HPLC …

More than intoxicating

the deciduous plant mahua is one of the most important flora species of Orissa. It is also found in Jharkhand, Chattisgarh, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. Its flowers are valued across the country for brewing a local liquor, which is called mahuli in Oriya. Its fruits are eaten …

Edibility questioned

The Supreme Court has issued notices to the Union ministries of agriculture, chemical, fertiliser and petrochemicals, health and family welfare, environment and forests, and food and consumer affairs over the contamination of food items. A bench comprising Chief Justice V N Khare and Justice S B Sinha included wheat, milk, …

Green palm oil

rampant clearance of tropical forests to produce vegetable oil continues. However, Switzerland's largest supermarket chain, Migros, has committed itself to buying palm oil exclusively grown from ecologically sound sources. The Swiss retailer, in conjunction with Worldwide Fund for Nature (wwf) has formulated a set of minimum environmental and social criteria …

Banning imports

the Union government is considering banning import of edible oils made from genetically modified (GM) soyabean and other seeds, said Union agriculture minister Nitish Kumar. He said that this measure will help in curbing dumping by some countries, which has adversely affected the Indian farmers. These countries resort to dumping …

Waiter fill er up

at a time when the use of fossil fuels to power vehicles is incurring environmentalists' wrath, an alternative source of fuel has emerged as a viable alternative. Additionally, its use solves a disposal problem. The fuel is nothing but used vegetable oil which has been tested satisfactorily. It has powered …

It s bean fuel

bio-diesel , an alternative fuel made from renewable resources, such as soybean oil, has become the first and only alternative fuel to have successfully completed the health effects testing requirements of California's Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990. The tests also showed that the use of bio-diesel would result in …

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