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 …
This study of the performance of agriculture at the state level in India during the post-reform period (1990-93 to 2003-06) and the immediate pre-reform period (1980-83 to 1990-93) shows that the post-reform period has been characterised by deceleration in the growth rate of crop yields as well as total agricultural …
Manufacturers say move will force them to fully depend on imports. Harish Damodaran Vanaspati makers are apprehensive over a proposed regulation seeking to limit the Trans Fatty Acids (TFA) content in their product to 10 per cent by early next year and to 5 per cent over the subsequent three …
These rules may be called the Prevention of Food Adulteration (8th Amendment) Rules, 2009. They shall come into force on the date of their final publication in the Official Gazette.
Idyllic scenes of palm trees swaying over sandy beaches have long decorated brochures meant to lure tourists to Indonesia and Malaysia. But few visitors see the giant palm plantations away from the shore. Each year, the plantations produce millions of tons of palm oil, which has soared in popularity since …
Hyderabad, June 28 Coconut Development Board is working on blending coconut oil with some specified vegetable oils to make it more acceptable as a cooking medium, according to Ms Minnie Mathew, Chairman, Coconut Development Board. Delivering the inaugural address at a national seminar on
The Union finance minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, today said there was a need to upgrade the food processing industries in the state to preserve excess supply of vegetables and fruit. He was speaking at the foundation stone-laying ceremony of a new manufacturing edible oil refinery unit at Haldia this morning. …
This paper sketches out the possible evolution of world food and agriculture to 2050 in terms of the key variables (production and consumption of the main commodity groups and the implications for food and nutrition in the developing countries). It presents a view of how these variables may evolve over …
Increasingly, over the past 40 years, the conception of diet has undergone major changes. Many of these changes involve changes in dietary intake of fats and oils. There has been an increasing consumption of partially hydrogenated trans- vegetable oils and a decreasing intake of lauric acidcontaining oils. Although popular literature …
The Department of Food Technology and Quality Control (DFTCQ) has said three popular brands of edible oil -Dhara, Family and Shakti have been found substandard and unfit for consumption. Organising a press conference in Kathmandu Sunday, the DFTCQ said Family brand mustard oil, Dhara brand mustard oil and Shakti brand …
Study tells why virgin olive oil protects from heart attacks olive oil is good for health. This fact is widely known but not the reason behind it. Grown in the Mediterranean countries, its oil is said to be the reason behind the low incidence of heart attacks and strokes in …
Gargi Parsai NEW DELHI: Foodgrains production for 2008-09 is estimated to be 229.85 million tonnes as against 227.32 million tonnes in the third advance estimates last year although shortfall is expected in the output of wheat, edible oilseeds, sugarcane, pulses and coarse cereals. The higher output of rice this year …
Major palm oil buyers face being graded for their green credentials after figures showing they have bought only a fraction of the sustainable palm oil available, environmental group WWF said on Tuesday. About 1.3 million tonnes of certified sustainable palm oil has been available since November last year, but only …
Planter Sime Darby, Malaysia's largest listed firm, has created the first genetic blueprint of oil palms, saying on Tuesday the map will lead to higher output and planting of drought resistant trees. Sime Darby is the first to map and use the oil palm sequence as Malaysia, the world's second …
Kunal Bose / Mumbai May 5, 2009, 0:12 IST The World Health Organisation gives the assurance that there is no risk of infection of swine flu virus from consumption of
Elevated serum low density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol is a strong risk factor for coronary heart disease; dietary as well as therapeutic regimens target reduction of serum LDL cholesterol to decrease the morbidity and mortality of coronary heart disease. The fatty acid composition of dietary fat has a marked impact on …
Vanaspati ghee manufacturers unhappy with proposed standard THE oils and fats sub-committee of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (mohfw), on March 18, agreed on a 10 per cent ceiling on trans fats in vanaspati ghee sold in the country. Members of the sub-committee also agreed trans fat levels …
Cooking medium || Say no to trans-fats anjkeep risks at bay If you thought that you had shut the door on trans-fats by eating only at home, you are wrong. The trans-fats have followed you into your kitchen. A recent study by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has …
Dilip Kumar Jha / Mumbai March 26, 2009, 0:19 IST Terming blending of crude palm oil with other oils as an "unfair trade practice", leading edible oil manufacturers, packers and traders in the country have demanded that the government broaden the scope of an existing law to ban sale of …
Britannia goes for palm oil britannia Industries Ltd has decided to remove trans fats from its entire range of baked products by the end of this year. The reason, company officials said, was growing scientific evidence of trans fats affecting health adversely. It is reducing trans fats by switching from …
