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 …
Junks FSSAI plea; govt order requires manufacturers to take approvals for products already in market The Supreme Court Monday refused to lift the stay on the Centre’s new legal regime, under which the food regulator has been authorised to issue guidelines requiring manufacturers to take approvals for the products already …
The High Court yesterday directed the government to issue a gazette notification within 15 days to enforce the safe food law to prevent food adulteration. In response to a writ petition, the HC ordered the food secretary to submit a report before it by June 16, after complying with the …
Around 80-99% of other popular items in the market including ghee, juice, honey, Roshogollah, Chomchom, Sandesh, candy, soybean oil and powder milk were also found to be adulterated Findings from laboratory tests have shown that over 46% of the food items that are available in the market are adulterated, and …
PUNE: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cancelled the licences of nine food business operators and suspended those of 233 others in Pune in the last financial year for dispensing unsafe and substandard food items violating provisions of the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006. "The aim is to …
KATHMANDU: The Department of Food Technology and Quality Control has filed cases against 263 different companies so far this fiscal for not adhering to quality standards that the Food Act, 1967 has set. Pramod Koirala, a senior food research officer at DFTQC, said the department has filed cases against the …
Officials of state’s food safety enforcement wing are busy this summer. In the midst of drive against artificial ripening of mangoes and unhygienic roadside eateries, the department has also started checking for adulteration of coconut oil. Special inspection drive has begun at check points to prevent transportation of adulterated coconut …
Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Swami Achyutanand Tirth & Others Vs Union of India & Others dated 13/03/2014 regarding adulteration of milk. By order dated March 10, 2014, the court has directed the Joint Commissioner (Food), Food and Drug Administration, State of Maharashtra, to …
The Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) today imposed a fine of Rs 12,000 on traders for violating norms of the Food Safety Act. An inspection was conducted by a team of municipal officials of different markets ahead of the Mahashivratri. Led by Health Officer Dr Mohammad Saleem Khan, a team of …
The first-ever indigenous low-cost pathogen kit, use to check food contamination, is all set to hit the market. Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad will inaugurate the kits this week. Developed by the National Institute of Nutrition (NIN), Hyderabad, the kit can be used for checking the quality of food …
The Consumer Federation Tamil Nadu (CONFET) has appealed to Chief Minister Jayalalithaa to arrange suitable compensation, as provided for under the Food Safety and Standards Act, to the family of A. Abirami (8) of Seplanatham near Neyveli, who died recently after consuming bottled soft drink. In a representation addressed to …
The Supreme Court today asked the states to give up their lenient attitude towards those responsible for adulteration of milk and milk products with hazardous synthetic substances as the issue involved the health of the entire population. Lamenting that most of the states were prosecuting the offenders under laws merely …
Following reports of substandard food products sold by leading business groups, the Jammu and Kashmir High Court today directed three leading companies to deposit Rs 10 crore each. A division bench of Muzaffar Hussain Attar and Tashi Rabistan directed Delhi-based spice company A-1 Agro Products and Srinagar-based Khyber and Kanwal …
Washington : Firms from India and other nations supplying food to the US may soon find it costlier to do businesses with the US proposing a new rule that requires them to address vulnerable processes in operations to prevent facilities from being target of "intentional adulteration". Initial estimates suggest that …
The Supreme Court on Thursday favoured life imprisonment to people indulging in production and marketing of adulterated milk and asked state governments to make amendments to laws. A bench of Justices K S Radhakrishnan and A K Sikri said punishment of six months jail term mentioned in Food Safety Act …
This Diwali, many housewives in the city are preparing sweets at home for the festival due to fear of adulteration in sweets available in markets. "Around this time of the year, the worst quality of khoya is available in the market. In the past few months, the price of milk …
Looking at the increase in sale of dry fruits ahead of Diwali, the health department officials inspected shops in the Walled City on Wednesday evening for the quality of dry fruits being sold. This inspection is to ensure that the shopkeepers are selling the right quality of dry fruits so …
The draft of the Safe Food Law -2013 is going to be passed during the ongoing parliament session with a provision for 14-year imprisonment as the highest punishment for food adulteration, a high food official said. Earlier, the cabinet on July 1, 2013 approved in principle the draft law with …
With overwhelming majority milk samples supplied across the country failing to meet the food safety and standard norms, the Rajasthan milk production has come under sharp focus. Being the second largest producer after Uttar Pradesh, the state contributes nearly 12.5% of the total milk production in the country. In a …
Common nutritional supplement milk you take may not be all that nutritious as majority of samples of milk supplied across the country failed to meet the food safety and standard norms. The Centre on Tuesday dished out this startling fact about the health of milk supplied both loose or in …
Indian basmati meant for exports is blended with a small percentage of non basmati long grain varieties. Now complaints are mounting that this blending of low quality non basmati in the basmati varieties, being exported to Iran, has gone beyond the industry norm of 20 per cent. This heavy adulteration …
