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. …
Aiming to check mis-labelling of ‘health supplements’, Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has come out with gazetted regulations proposing to ban the sale of such products as ‘medicines’. FSSAI has also framed regulations for products based on ayurveda, sidhha, unani and other traditional health systems. FSSAI has …
An environment advocacy group today termed the country's food regulator's move to reduce trans-fat content in edible oils as important milestone in controlling non-communicable diseases in India and urged to bring it to "near-zero levels". Recently the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has reduced permitted trans-fats content …
Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has welcomed FSSAI's recent move to cut down the maximum permitted trans fats in edible fats and oils. At 5 per cent, the new standards are half of the earlier limit and will come into force by August 2016. In an initiative that augurs …
After scrapping product approval process following court orders, including the Maggi case, food safety watchdog Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has invited legal firms to help frame new norms for approvals. Sources say the FSSAI is looking to streamline the product approval process and is expected to …
During the year 2014-15, under the central sector scheme, “Monitoring of Pesticide Residues at National Level” sponsored by Department of Agriculture, Cooperation & Farmers Welfare, Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, samples of vegetables, fruits, spices, red chilli powder, curry leaves, rice, wheat, pulses, fish/marine, meat and egg, tea, milk …
The National Green Tribunal has directed the Centre and various stakeholders to file their submissions on a proposal that there should be a complete prohibition on the use of plastic packaging in food and pharmaceutical formulations of any kind. "It appears that none of the concerned ministries are prepared to …
The new draft guidelines cover almost 1,000 items versus the 377 items listed in the 2011 regulations After last week’s setback in the Supreme Court, the Food Safety & Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has set in motion the process of notifying guidelines for proprietary foods, health supplements and additives, …
The Supreme Court has dismissed the special leave petition filed by FSSAI against a Bombay High Court judgment. The high court, in the Vital Nutraceuticals case, had held that the product approval scheme which was issued through an advisory has no force of law because the procedure laid in Section …
A committee set up by the Centre to look into growing health problems among school going children has recommended that vendors should be barred from selling junk food during school hours in a vicinity of 200 metres of a school. The committee has further suggested that the shops selling junk …
The Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has found lead contamination in fresh batches of Nestlé India's Maggi noodles tested over the last two months. Out of 46 samples randomly collected from across the state, four showed excess lead content. This lead content, expressed in `parts per million' (or PPM) …
The food safety regulator’s suggestion lacked statutory backing: Bench In a blow to Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), the Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a Bombay High Court order staying its 2013 advisory requiring manufacturers to take product approval for a broad spectrum of food items already …
The country's apex consumer dispute re dressal commission NCDRC, on Monday admit ted the Centre's complain against Nestle India seeking Rs 640 crore for its alleged unfair trade and deceptive practices pertaining to Maggi instant noodles. Issuing notice to Nestle, the commission directed it to respond by September 30 (the …
Government agencies may be making tall claims of protecting consumer rights, particularly in case of food products, but the existing legal provisions expose how people are at the mercy of retailers and state agencies to get justice when they suspect a product to be unsafe or adulterated. According to the …
Samples To Be Sent To Three Authorized Labs Over two months after the food safety regulator imposed a nationwide ban on Maggi noodles, the Bombay high court on Thursday struck down the order as “arbitrary“ and “in violation of the principles of natural justice“. The decision, which questioned the quality …
The No sales of Maggi noodles till results from fresh tests in In a major reprieve for Nestle India, the Bombay High Court on Thursday set aside the order of the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) and other state food regulators banning the nine variants of popular …
The Bombay high court on 13 August 2015, struck down FSSAI’s order of a nationwide ban on the sale of Nestle India's popular 2-minute Maggi noodles. Nestle India has been asked to conduct fresh safety tests on the product before relaunching it. Order of the Bombay High Court in the …
The Maggi noodles controversy is increasingly turning out to be a tussle between the central food regulator and state bodies on the issue of testing of samples and giving a clean chit to Swiss food major Nestlé. The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) on Wednesday issued a …
Over the past several months, new product launches have slowed as companies are growing increasingly anxious about regulatory oversight The list of food companies that are cutting back supply, withdrawing products from the market and putting new launches on hold is getting longer by the day. In the latest such …
On June 5, the FSSAI ordered Nestle India to withdraw all nine variants of Maggi instant noodles from the market. The Bombay High Court Tuesday asked the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) if it was influenced by information on the internet while ordering a ban on Maggi …
In 2014-15, 80 food samples in Goa were found ‘adulterated’ and/or ‘misbranded.’ Of these only five cases were lodged of which four saw convictions. This was revealed in the Annual Public Laboratory Testing Report, 2014-15, of Food Safety and Standard Authority of India (FSSAI). The report also revealed that the …
