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 …
Significant programmatic experience and research evidence regarding HIV and infant feeding have accumulated since WHO's recommendations on infant feeding in the context of HIV were last revised in 2006. In particular, evidence has been reported that antiretroviral (ARV) interventions to either the HIV-infected mother or HIV-exposed infant can significantly reduce …
Breast milk is better than formula food, even with toxins SEVEN and a half months old Aashirya is healthy. She is less likely to fall sick or put on excessive weight as she grows up. This is because her parents are staunch believers of breastfeeding. Vineet Tyagi, her paediatrician father, …
It seems India just can't save its little babies. Globally 9.7 million babies under five die and 2.1 million are in India alone. Around 27 million births occur in India every year, but 1.7 million infants die before one year and 1.08 million within one month. An India Report on …
Chinese dairy companies that sold melamine-tainted milk are ready to pay compensation to families of nearly 300,000 children who became ill or died from drinking contaminated infant formula, a news agency reported on Saturday. Twenty-two dairy producers will make a one-time cash payment to the victims
Candy, snacks, bakery products, pet food and other Chinese products that contain milk will be detained at the U.S. border until tests prove that they are not contaminated, the U.S. government announced. The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday that it issued the alert because of concern about such products …
NEW DELHI: The World Health Organisation (WHO) is alerting its member States southeast Asia on the possible dangers of distribution and consumption of melamine-contaminated milk products. Contaminated batches of infant formula or other milk-containing products such as biscuits, chocolates and snack food have reportedly been exported to the region, posing …
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 …
The occurrence of perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) in human blood is known to be widespread; nevertheless, the sources of exposure to humans, including infants, are not well understood. In this study, breast milk collected from seven countries in Asia was analyzed (n = 184) for nine PFCs, including perfluorooctanesulfonate (PFOS) and …
Alliance with UNICEF in question even though the Ministry of Women and Child Development is yet to take a decision on the conflict of interest between public-private partnerships and government policies, the ministry has launched a five-year programme on child welfare in collaboration with unicef in seven states. unicef, which …
The Infant Milk Substitutes, Feeding Bottles and Infant Foods (Regulation of Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 1992 attempted to curb the efforts of baby food manufacturers to undermine breastfeeding and was further amended in 2003 to plug loopholes. However, public-private health partnerships are now found to be advocating nutrition policies …
baby food is contaminated with a chemical that could possibly lead to cancer or neurobehavioural disorders. Invest-igations by Environ-mental Working Group (ewg), a us -based public interest organization, revealed an infant food formulation is contaminated by a suspected endocrine disruptor called bisphenol a (bpa), which in studies have shown to …
The paediatrician's word is most often good advertisement for baby food manufacturers. But when paediatricians' associations in many parts of the country passed a resolution prohibiting their members from vouching baby food products, Nestl
on november 22, 2005, the Nestle group withdrew liquid baby milk products from five countries in the European Union (eu). This follows the discovery of chemical ink in the milk product's packaging by Italian health authorities, in September this year. They confiscated around 30 million litres of baby milk produced …
A recent advertising campaign for "Horlicks', a beverage, has drawn sharp protest from Health Action by People (hap), a Kerala based non-governmental organisation. The beverage's maker, GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Health Care, is using a study by Hyderabad-based National Institute of Nutrition (nin) to say it is now clinically proven that their …
food giant Nestle rendered an apology to the Chinese public on June 6, 2005 for the higher than permitted levels of iodine content in its powder milk for infants. Mu Li, Nestle China's chief executive, said the milk powder "unfortunately' deviated from the national safety standard. "Although we are always …
indian organisations that promote breastfeeding are protesting the proposed repeal of the Infant Milk Substitutes, Feeding Bottles and Infant Foods (Regulation of Production, Supply and distribution) Act, 1992 ( ims Act, 1992) by the Union ministry of food processing industries. The ims Act is among several other acts suggested to …
the Food Safety and Standards Bill, 2005, in its Schedule 1 will break all safety nets created in the country to prevent the promotion of infant milk substitutes over breast milk. The Infant Milk Substitues, Feeding Bottle and Milk Food Act, 1992, had restricted advertising and promoting infant milk substitutes. …
