Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
Mercury is one of the most dangerous environmental pollutants, both in its elemental form and in chemical combination. When mercury is released into the environment it gets transformed into methyl mercury through microbial action. The methylation of mercury is a key step in the entrance of mercury into food chains. …
A consumer goods manufacturer cannot be imposed with punitive damage unless found guilty of having manufactured a lot of hazardous or contaminated goods, the Delhi State Consumer Commission said.
SHIJIAZHUANG: Two people were sentenced to death in connection with the tainted milk scandal in China on Thursday by a local court here. Zhang Yujun, who produced and sold melamine-laced
Beijing: Please forgive us, a group of Chinese dairy firms said in a New Year text message sent to millions of mobile phone subscribers. The 22 dairy firms, led by the now-bankrupt Sanlu, apologised and asked forgiveness for the contamination of their products by melamine, which killed at least six …
This base working paper on the strategy and action plan for ensuring safety of milk and milk products covers three goals: Assessment of food legislation at national level
The current, continuous National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) has included blood mercury (BHg) and fish/shellfish consumption since it began in 1999. NHANES 1999
Report of the Joint Meeting of the FAO panel of experts on pesticide residues in food and the environment and the WHO core assessment group on pesticide residues held at Rome from 9-18 Sep 2008. The annual Joint Meeting of the FAO Panel of Experts on Pesticide Residues in Food …
More than 1,500 boxes of Chinese biscuits exported to Hong Kong and Singapore have tested positive for melamine as suspects in the protracted tainted-food scandal go on trial in China, local media reported on Tuesday. Quality inspectors in Dongguan in the southern province of Guangdong found the latest contaminated biscuits …
Jammu: The mid-day meals scheme aimed at improving nutritional status of children of primary schools, attract more enrolments besides checking early dropout cases, is not catching up with the students, thanks to substandard food being served to them. However, school education director Zahida Khan denied the charge. Some school authorities …
The investigation and control of foodborne disease outbreaks are multi-disciplinary tasks requiring skills in the areas of clinical medicine, epidemiology, laboratory medicine, food microbiology and chemistry, food safety and food control, and risk communication and management. Many outbreaks of foodborne disease are poorly investigated, if at all, because these skills …
Within the Codex Alimentarius, transparency is and has been an important consideration with regard to how and why actions and decisions are made in providing stakeholders with sufficient information and clarity on matters of interest and decision-making. This review focuses on the development of analytical methods performance criteria for measuring …
This report contains monographs prepared at the sixty-eighth meeting of the Joint FAOM0 Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA), which met in Geneva, Switzerland, from 19 to 28 June 2007. The toxicological monographs in this volume summarize the safety data on a number of food additives: acidified sodlum chlorite, asparaginase …
The Ministry of Food Processing Industries, GOI, has declared 2008-09 as Food safety and Quality Year. Food safety implies absence or safe levels of various of kinds of contaminants. Sources of food contamination include harmful chemicals, heavy metals, pesticides, preservatives, colouring agents, additives, adulterants etc. Food contamination leads of life-threatening …