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 …
Maggi noodles are popular in Kenya and neighbouring countries East Africa's biggest supermarket chain has withdrawn Nestle's Maggi noodle brand from its shops in five countries, amid concerns over food safety. Nakumatt says the noodles have been withdrawn from shops in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and South Sudan, after demands …
KATHMANDU, June 5: The government on Wednesday banned the import and sale of Nestle's Maggi noodles in Nepal until further notice, following a ban on the noodle brand in different Indian states. Maggi noodles, which has a majority market share in India, was banned in different Indian states including Delhi …
BAFRA: Almost two weeks after it sent the Maggi noodle samples for test, the Bhutan Agriculture and Food Regulatory Authority (BAFRA) is still waiting for results from Thailand. The authority is expecting the results today. Chief of analytical and certification division, Jamyang Phuntsho, said it usually took about 10 to …
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has prepared a draft specifying the limit of heavy metals in products such as canned food, margarine, wine, poultry and other processed food. The draft is an amendment of the Food Safety Standards Regulations 2011 and will be called the Food …
M/S Nestle India Ltd. is aware of the currently on-going nation-wide concerns regarding the safety of its food products cited under the above subject. Pursuant to the sampling and testing of the said product by the establishment of the office of Commissioner of Food Safety, Uttar Pradesh and recognising the …
Fresh fruits, vegetables, herbs, and processed foods continue to be the major sources of essential trace elements in humans’ diet required for proper body development. However, food products can potentially be contaminated by toxic heavy metals (HMs) from environmental contamination or industrial food processing. The deleterious health implications of essential …
This study was conducted to determine the concentration of heavy metals Lead (Pb), Cadmium (Cd), Arsenic (As) and Copper (Cu) in ten vegetables. The purpose of this study was to study the Heavy metal content i.e. Pb, Cd, As and Cu in vegetables irrigated by Panjara River and to analyze …
HO CHI MINH CITY, June 1 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam registered 42 serious food poisoning cases which affected 1,898 people, of whom 10 died, from January to May, while the respective figures were 36, 1,064 and 10 in the same period last year, the country's General Statistics Office announced Monday. Last …
Indian food-safety inspectors said Sunday they had filed a criminal complaint against Nestlé India Ltd. after finding dangerous levels of lead in a batch of Maggi 2-Minute Noodles sold in the country. The Food Safety & Drug Administration in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh registered a case in …
South African consumers can continue enjoying Nestlé's popular Maggi Noodles, according to Nestlé SA, following claims of lead contamination in India. "We would like to reassure our South African consumers that the quality and safety of all our products are non-negotiable priorities for us, and our Maggi Noodles are therefore …
Rat meat masquerading as lamb, cabbage doused in formaldehyde, rice containing arsenic and rotten-meat burgers, all cooked in recycled oil collected from a sewer. This is not a menu from a dystopian nightmare, but a small sample of the food safety scandals that have besieged Chinese consumers in recent years. …
Khartoum - Constitutional and structural reforms will be undertaken by the Ministry of Health in the coming phase to strengthen the health environment and food control departments in all the state facilities. Minister of Health Bahar Idriss Abu Garda praised the health environmental and food control staff in the centre …
Antimicrobials are used in livestock production to maintain health and productivity. These practices contribute to the spread of drug-resistant pathogens in both livestock and humans, posing a significant public health threat. We present the first global map (228 countries) of antibiotic consumption in livestock and conservatively estimate the total consumption …
Public health office in Embu town has banned food hawking businesses to prevent cholera outbreak in the area. Jackson Njeru, Public health Officer, said the move is aimed at stopping the spread of the diseases from the neighbouring counties whic have recorded the outrank. He was speaking at his office …
A simple and easy direct solid-phase extraction (SPE) method was developed for the analysis of polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in olive oil using a dual-layer cartridge containing activated Florisil and a mixture of octadecyl (C18)-bonded and zirconia-coated silicas. Undiluted olive oil was applied directly to the SPE cartridge, and the …
Prof. Mba Okoronkwo of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) has blamed the death of an estimated two million people yearly worldwide, on unsafe food consumption. Okoronkwo, the Dean, School of Health Sciences, NOUN, gave the figure at an event to celebrate the 2015 World Health Day in Lagos. …
Recent organic diet intervention studies suggest that diet is a significant source of pesticide exposure in young children. These studies have focused on children living in suburban communities. The objective of the study was to determine whether consuming an organic diet reduced urinary pesticide metabolite concentrations in 40 Mexican-American children, …
Food-borne diseases kill an estimated two million people annually, including many children, in developing countries, the World Health Organisation said as people yesterday observed the World Health Day. “Food contaminants, such as harmful parasites, bacteria, viruses, prions, chemical or radioactive substances, cause more than 200 diseases -- ranging from infectious …
HONG KONG — A sample of powdered tea imported from the Japanese prefecture of Chiba, just southeast of Tokyo, had 9.3 times the legal maximum level of radioactive cesium 137 allowed in food, the Hong Kong government announced late Thursday evening. Hong Kong’s legal limits for radioactive material in food …
KFC, the world's largest chain of fried chicken restaurants, may face pressure from consumer and environmental groups to change how its poultry are raised after McDonald's Corp said it would switch to chicken raised without human antibiotics. McDonald's will phase out chicken raised with antibiotics that are important to human …
