Judgment of the National Green Tribunal, May 27, 2025 in the matter of Sumit Saini Vs Shree Ram Steel Industries & Others. Sumit Saini, resident of village Damla, District Yamuna Nagar, Haryana had sent a letter petition dated May 14, 2022 to the NGT. The application said that around 25 …
As Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (BES) decline, this is increasingly translating to business risk and opportunity linked to reputational risk, security of supply and legal compliance. Survey of 31 companies in the food, beverage and tobacco sectors painted a picture of early stage response, of pilot projects, developing but incompletely …
The Greenpeace India guide to GM-free food that gives consumers an insight into the positions of food brands, on the use of genetically modified ingredients. Has categorized 17 food companies in India into 'red list' & 'green list' based on their policy on the use of GM ingredients. Consumers and …
Commonwealth Games are going to be organised in Delhi in 2010 which is likely to bring in a large number of participants and visitors to the city of Delhi. This provides a unique opportunity for reviewing and upgrading the safety of the food served in the eating establishments in Delhi …
The Italian restaurant backed by celebrities Mario Batali and Joseph Bastianich is one of several shunning bottled water, along with the city of San Francisco and New York state. "The argument for local water is compelling and obvious," said Bastianich, who is phasing out bottled water across his restaurant empire, …
Lunch with BS: Sanjeev Chadha Suvi Dogra & Kanika Datta / New Delhi June 16, 2009, 0:27 IST Sanjeev ChadhaThe table at Cilantro, the multi-cuisine restaurant at the Oberoi Trident in Gurgaon, is booked for five people. Five? Sanjeev Chadha, chairman, PepsiCo, India Region, would be accompanied by two corporate …
Heavy Consumption Of Soft Drinks Can Cause Blood Potassium To Drop Dangerously Low: Experts Think twice before you take a sip from that cola bottle this summer. Experts are warning that excessive cola consumption can lead to anything from mild weakness to profound muscle paralysis. This is because the cola …
Energy drinks sold in restaurants and grocery stores have caught the eye of food regulators in Maharashtra. In the first week of April, they seized large quantities of beverages sold under brands like Red Bull, Cloud 9, Fighter and SoBe Adrenaline Rush from godowns in Pune and Mumbai. Officials of …
Maharashtra food regulators seize consignments energy drinks sold in restaurants and grocery stores have caught the eye of food regulators in Maharashtra. In the first week of April, they seized large quantities of beverages sold under brands like Red Bull, Cloud 9, Fighter and SoBe Adrenaline Rush from godowns in …
Government has been dithering over implementing the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006. Though the rules under the Act are yet to be framed, the legislation has undergone several amendments. The Act covers all packaged and processed food, infant food, packaged drinking water, alcoholic drink, chewing gum, irradiated and genetically …
Advertisements claim energy drinks boost physical activity and alertness. This is achieved by mixing caffeine with vitamins and herbs. Cloud 9 energy drink contains natural energy boosters, guarana (rich natural source of caffeine), ginseng, taurine, pomegranate and vitamin B. Who created it? A Thai businessman, Chaleo Voovidhya, is reported to …
Ahmedabad: One child died and ten others were critical after they consumed spurious soft drink at Chainapura in New Ranip on Wednesday. The children felt drowsy after having the spurious drink and had severe bouts of vomiting and dysentery, Bharti Amin, a 108 emergency ambulance official said. "We got a …
Rajapalayam, TWO children of Meenatchipuram near Rajapalayam, who consumed bottled soft drink, died soon after consuming it on Tuesday. Priya (10) and Gnanaselvi (7) on returning home from school consumed soft drink on Tuesday evening, said their parents Jeyaraj and Murugeswary. Within minutes, both the children fell unconscious and they …
evolution Wolves from dogs Human beings can enrich biodiversity without doing much. Take raising dogs as pets, for example. A study says dogs have helped in the evolution of black colour in wolves. This bodes well for wolves inhabiting fast depleting snow-covered northern environments like the Arctic tundra. While hunting, …
Each year as a follow up to the official processes which regulate pesticides, government monitors food to check that the residue levels found are within those expected from normal use of the pesticide and checks that legal trading levels (Maximum Residue Levels) are not breached for both imported and home-produced …
Here the authors report the first worldwide reconnaissance study of the presence and occurrence of pesticides in fruit-based soft drinks. While there are strict regulations and exhaustive controls for pesticides in fruits, vegetables, and drinking water, scarce attention has been paid to highly consumed derivate products, which may contain these …
Sweetened soft, fruit drinks linked to diabetes regular consumption of sugar-sweetened soft drinks and fruit drinks is associated with an increased risk for type 2 diabetes in African-American women, say researchers from Boston University
food Light too affects drinks Conventional methods to test the shelf life of products, say on retail displays, focus on heat and ignore the effect of light. Scientists exposed a soft drink containing saffron to different levels of light at rising temperatures. They found that the beverage grew lighter in …
>> The video-sharing site YouTube will be allowed to mask the identities of individual users when it provides viewership records to the media giant Viacom and other copyright holders after a US court directed it to submit its database to Viacom. >> Soft drinks giant Coca-Cola has come under pressure …
LONDON: The famous Coca-Cola secret formula is becoming just a little less secret. For more than a century, Coke has fiercely guarded its recipe, created in 1886 by John Pemberton, a druggist in Atlanta who was trying to concoct a health drink. In recent decades the company has spun an …
