Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
Beijing: Nearly a quarter of around 3,00,000 babies in the Chinese Capital were once fed melamine contaminated milk, before the product was taken off the shelves, media reports here claimed on Sunday. A door-to-door survey conducted from September 20 to October 24 in the city, revealed that of more than …
DH News Service, Bangalore: Even after 13 years of Polio immunisation programme as many as 486 cases have been reported this year alone in 87 districts. Recent outbreaks of polio cases in different parts of the country have cast doubts as to why children are getting infected by the virus …
New polio vaccination strategy suggested Tribune News Service New Delhi, October 23 The Indian Academy of Paediatrics (IAP), the premier association of pediatricians in India, has expressed deep concern over increase in the number of polio cases in the country and has recommended a new vaccination strategy in immunization schedule …
A day after four infants died immediately after being administered measles vaccine in Baska district of lower Assam, the state government has dismissed allegations that the deaths were caused by the vaccine.
Hong Kong, Three more children in the southern Chinese gambling enclave of Macau have developed kidney stones after drinking milk that may have been be tainted with the industrial chemical melamine, bringing the total number of sick children to seven, the government said. Neighbouring Hong Kong has recently reported 10 …
Beijing, Oct. 18: Under fire over handling the tainted milk scandal, Chinese J'abao Premier Wen Jiabao said his government is responsible for the scam that killed four infants and sickened thousands in the country. While assuring tough legislation and monitoring, the Chinese Premier said his government is to blame concerning …
Sreelatha Menon / New Delhi October 16, 2008, 0:27 IST The government is all set to put an end to the debate on whether hot cooked meals or ready-to-eat food like biscuits should be served in the anganwadis, the pre-school feeding centres run under the central government scheme of Integrated …
They will wash their hands in the prescribed manner across the country today NEW DELHI: About 10-crore schoolchildren will be washing their hands in the prescribed manner across the country on Wednesday as part of the global exercise to imbue better sanitary habits for a healthy living. In the first …
more than 50,000 infants developed kidney stones and four others died in China (as of September 23) after consuming baby food tainted with melamine, a chemical banned in food items. Reports of contamination emerged on September 10, when 14 babies in Gansu province fell ill. Soon, more reports started coming …
Kamavarapukota, Oct. 13: The minister for minor irrigation, Mr Maganti Venkateswara Rao, ina-ugurated the mid-day meal scheme meant for high sch-ools students in West Goda-vari district on Monday. Speaking on the occasion, the minister said that about 4.30 lakh high school students were to be given meals at a cost …
Hyderabad, Oct. 13: The state launched the extension of its mid-day meals scheme (covering up to Class X) in all the high schools on Monday. The minister for school education, Mr Damodara Rajanarasimha, formally launched the scheme at a school in Medak. Though the school education officials claimed that they …
Bangalore, DHNS: Children under the age of six are more vulnerable to lead poisoning. Developing children are sensitive to even small amounts of lead, which reduces learning ability, causes brain damage, hyperactive behaviour, neurological problems, attention deficit disorders, major organ failure or even death. Schoolchildren and especially infants, occupationally exposed …
BEIJING: Lawyers advising victims of China's spreading tainted milk scandal said Tuesday that they were under growing pressure from officials in central China to withdraw from the cases. The families of many of the children sickened by milk laced with the industrial chemical melamine have been turning to a loose …
CHINA IS POSTING inspectors to monitor dairy companies and imposing new rules to improve accountability among milk suppliers, as it moves to restore consumer confidence after tainted baby formula sickened tens of thousands of children. Authorities detained six people on Sunday for allegedly selling melamine, an industrial chemical that has …
With news of 53,000 babies fighting renal failure in Chinese hospitals stunning the world, and authorities in countries such as Singapore, Philippines and Japan withdrawing Chinese milk products from stores, global consumer trust in products from China and, by extension all developing countries, has hit an all-time low. It is …
