Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Dr. Amit Kumar Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 28/05/2025. The applicant has raised a grievance against setting up of a tyre pyrolysis plant by M/s Adideva Carbon LLP. According to the applicant, the tyre pyrolysis plant has …
stringent labelling norms for food products are on the anvil as the Union government in consultation with the Central Committee for Food Standards has decided to amend the Prevention of Food Adulteration Rules, 1955. A notification to this effect came out for comments on November 28, 2005. The Union ministry …
pipeline blast: Suspected tribal rebels recently blew up a gas pipeline in Pakistan. This led to the closure of the nearby Uch power plant, which is owned jointly by the US and the uk, for the second time in January 2006. The blast damaged a 60 cm-diameter pipeline in the …
Indian consumers will soon have the privilege of knowing whether their food contains genetically modified (gm) ingredients. Sources at the Union ministry of health and family welfare recently said that the current rules under the relevant legislation would be amended to put the new proposals into force. Earlier, the Central …
One of the significant areas in which pesticide residue analysis differs significantly from macro-analysis is that of contamination and interference. Trace amounts of contamination in the final samples used for the determination stage of the method can give rise to errors such as false positive or false negative results or …
A lawsuit demanding warning labels on packets of French fries and potato chips, believed to contain high amounts of the chemical acrylamide, has been filed in a Los Angeles Superior Court in the US. Acrylamide is a carcinogenic chemical created when foods high in starch are subjected to high temperatures. …
A bill to consolidate the laws relating to food and to establish the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India for laying down science based standards for articles of food and to regulate their manufacture, storage, distribution, sale and import, to ensure availability of safe and wholesome food for human …
How were your 10 months at fda? It was a great learning experience! The subjects were new, but I took the initiative every regulator should take, to understand them. I met people in the field before questioning the companies. Of fda's many important decisions last year, the crucial one was …
After the Sudan 1 health scare, the uk is witnessing another major withdrawal of food products feared contaminated with Para Red, an illegal dye linked to cancer. On May 9, 2005, the country's Food Standards Agency (fsa), its food safety watchdog, announced that 19 products had been withdrawn from sale …
What would you consider food: chewing gum or an apple growing on a tree? Halt before choosing the latter. The eu thinks otherwise! The bizarre food classification is part of the eu' s comments sent to the Codex Alimentarius Commission, a joint body of the un Food and Agriculture Organisation …
Industry tests using human beings would now be accepted by the us Environmental Protection Agency (epa) in fixing standards for chemicals in food and water. The agency is about to finish formulating a plan to take a "case-by-case approach' in this matter. "It says we're going to look at each …
after a two-month wait, the verdict is out. Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and other soft drink manufacturers will now have to display on their labels the ingredients, including pesticide residue content, present in their products. In the first week of October, 2004 the Rajasthan High Court (hc) had delivered the order "in …
Edible oils such as coconut, groundnut, hydrogenated vegetable, linseed, mustard, olive, palm, refined vegetable, rice bran, safflower, sesame, soybean, and sunflower were analyzed for the presence of light and heavy polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) residues using liquid-liquid extraction, cleanup on a silica gel column, and resolution and determination by HPLC …
An Act to make provision for prevention of adulteration of the food. This Act may be called the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954. It extends to the whole of India. It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, …
New Zealand has affirmed that its food items are among the safest in the world. On April 26, the New Zealand Food Safety Authority (nzfsa) released a report on chemical residues in the country's food supply in 2002-2003. The report is based on the results of nzfsa's monitoring of such …
INDIAN authorities responsible for regulating pesticides have one big obsession: Codex. Officials, from both the ministries of agriculture and health and family welfare, have favoured taking refuge in standards set by the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC). And they are not alone. The Indian industry, and its various associations cannot be …
The Codex Committee is supposed to focus on health, not trade. But the general perception is that trade dominates the agenda and therefore the commission's standards for acceptable daily intake of pesticides and their maximum residue levels are not stringent. ccpr's main purpose is to set maximum residue levels (mrls). …
The seven members of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (saarc) unanimously decided to harmonise their food norms by 2007, at a recent meeting in Kathmandu. Those members not present are also expected to be involved in the process. The meeting was organised by the Nepal government's Department of …
At the 36th meeting of the Codex Committee on Pesticide Residues (CCPR), the US delegation stalled crucial discussions on maximum residue limits (MRLs) for processed or ready-to-eat foods. It achieved this by simply not presenting its paper on the subject. The meet was held in New Delhi from April 19-24. …
