The Ministry of Mines on February 20, 2024, issued the Minerals (Other than Atomic and Hydro Carbons Energy Minerals) Concession (Second Amendment) Rules, 2024, to further amend the Minerals (Other than Atomic and Hydro Carbons Energy Minerals) Concession Rules, 2016. The following amendments have been stated: In rule 45, which …
Baby Food When the amendment to the Infant Milk Substitutes, Feeding Bottles and Infant Foods Act 1992 banned advertising and promotional activity for infant and weaning foods, there was talk that ad revenues would take a hit. But that is not to be so. Companies have retained ad agencies on …
baby food Is baby food advertising unethical? Yes, thinks the government. It has issued notification to enforce an amendment to the Infant Milk Substitutes, Feeding Bottles and Infant Food Act of 1992. In a major boost to breastfeeding the amendment bans, in all types of media, advertising for both infant …
we might be weakening our children's immune system by feeding them soya-based infant formula. A recent study conducted by researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, usa, indicates that soya-based infant formulas are rich in genistein, a chemical that adversely affects children's immune system. To prove their claim, the …
the mental development of babies improves significantly when infant formula is enriched with two essential fatty acids that are found in mother's milk, says a recent study. Researchers at the Retina Foundation of the Southwest in Dallas, Texas, usa , claim that the intellectual capacity of 18-month-olds shows a significant …
SEVERAL studies show how human breast milk is far superior to the much-advertised artificial milk formulae. Compared to infants fed on these, those fed on breast milk have lower rates of diarrhoea, ear infections and bacterial meningitis an infection that causes inflammation of the brain and spinal cord. In this …
baby food manufacturers have been found guilty of violating international codes which seek to safeguard infants' health. A study released recently by the Interagency Group on Breastfeeding Monitoring, a coalition of 27 health and development groups in the uk, found that many companies regularly breach domestic and international regulations on …
ON THE heels of the mad cow disease, the British government is faced with another food safety crisis. This time the crisis centres around powdered baby milk thought to contain potentially hazardous chemicals. However, the government has insisted that there was no cause for alarm. The controversy began after a …
The cargo ship mv-emb-t Emerald recently left Kenya's port of Mombasa loaded with 100,000 kilograms of radioactive milk powder. The potentially lethal commodity was being returned to Rotterdam, Netherlands, its port of origin. Top officials from Kenya's Radiation Protection Board under its health ministry of health, said that the country …
In May, Bangladesh shut its doors on 125 tonnes of milk powder imported from Estonia, alleging high radiation levels in the product. Locked in a wordy duel over the issue are the importer, Danish Condensed Milk (Bangladesh) Ltd and the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission. Customs sources at the Chittagong Radiation …
Feeding non-infective bacteria to infants may protect them from diarrhoea, a recent study concludes (The Lancet, Vol 344, No 8929). Jose Saavedra and colleagues at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA, performed a clinical trial on 55 infants aged 5 to 24 months, who were admitted to …
Setting a global precedent, the Eighth Asian Congress of Paediatrics in the Capital refused to accept financial support from infant formula food companies. The congress president, R D Potdar, claimed this was a principled stand taken by the paediatric community to promote breast-feeding. Paediatric conferences all over the world are …
BREAST milk is the most nutritious and wholesome food for an infant because it contains proteins, minerals and vitamins in the required proportion, as well as the anti-microbial constituents, which protect the baby against diarrhoeal diseases. Unfortunately, the last 40 years have seen a shift from brest-feeding to using substitutes …
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An Act to provide for the regulation of production, supply and distribution of infant milk substitutes, feeding bottles and infant foods with a view to the protection and promotion of breastfeeding and ensuring the proper use of infant foods and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
NESTLE seems to have perfected the fine art of profiting at another's expense. Its infant food substitutes have been a known cause of diarrhoea and death among year-old babies. Now, the company claims to have developed a carob-based baby food which, it says, helps remove diarrhoea-causing bacteria from the intestines. …
