Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Akhilesh Kumar Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 23/05/2025. The matter related to illegal mining activites carried out by Jai Maa Chandrika Enterprises, Rajendra Nagar, village Kabari, district Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh. The applicant also alleged about illegal sale …
In Vietnam, urban agriculture still represents a substantial share of food supply and employment. Its contribution to the food needs of the entire population of Hanoi was estimated at 44 per cent in 2002 (Mai et al., 2004). In the same year, over 70 per cent of leafy vegetables originated …
The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) has released a report, with the Asia Society, by a high-level Task Force on Food Security and Sustainability in Asia titled "Never an Empty Bowl: Sustaining Food Security in Asia." The report presents steps that governments, businesses, NGOs and regional and international organizations can …
In this second version of the Safe Food Guide, Greenpeace reassesses the scenario in India with respect to the use of genetically modified organisms, consumer attitudes towards GMOs and behaviour of popular food brands. In 2010, in consumer opinion poll conducted by GfK Mode, over half of the citizens questioned …
Greenpeace is offering this guide because Greenpeace believe that you have the Right to Know what you are eating. While over 40 countries including Europe, Australia, New Zealand, China or Japan have opted for mandatory standards, the Indian Government is beating around the bush and not ensuring that labelling of …
THE British Food Standard Agency (FSA) has been relieved of its task to decide what is healthy and what is not. The change, announced on July 20, follows FSA's unsuccessful drive to introduce "traffic light labelling system" for food items across Europe. The system would have required food companies to …
Sandip DasNew Delhi: With Europe and Gulf countries, putting in place stringent safety norms for ensuring that pesticide residue in agricultural crops remain below prescribed limits, basmati (aromatic rice) exporters from India have urged the Union agriculture ministry to ensure that farmers use less pesticide.Europe and Gulf nations are main …
Vegetables not checked for qualityPANJIM, AUG 8A large quantum of vegetable and fruit products that Goans consume is imported from neighbouring Belgaum in Karnataka, even as people are not too sure on the quality of the stuff they consume was healthy or not.In the just-concluded Monsoon Session of the Goa …
The booklet discusses in detail and in simple language agricultural biotechnology as it compares with conventional breeding, the agricultural biotechnology tools used in crops such as tissue culture and micropropagation, molecular breeding and marker-assisted selection, and genetic engineering and GM crops. A section on Answers to Frequently Asked Questions for …
Sandip Das, SANJEEB MUKHERJEE Billed as the most ambitious social programme of UPA-II, the Bill to provide a national food safety net to all Indians is inching closer to a legislation. After months of delay in finalizing the basic blueprint of the Universal Food Security Bill as it shuttled among …
Dilip Kumar Jha / Mumbai July 09, 2010, 0:48 IST India is unlikely to be impacted by the new melamine and aflatoxin limit set by the UN Codex Alimentarius Commission (Codex), a body run jointly by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations and the World Health …
This paper provides an overview of developments in food safety policy in major industrial countries and of economic analysis of this policy. It describes the elements of a risk-based, farm-to-fork food safety system as it is emerging in OECD countries guided by discussions through Codex Alimentarius and traces its roots …
Scientist C. Kameswara Rao reviews the document released by the Minister of Environment and Forests of the Government of India that declares a moratorium on the commercial release of Bt brinjal (eggplant) in India. Through a scientific review process Dr. Rao points out the bias and lack of scientific reason …
The Agro-Industrial Policy aims at value addition from agricultural produce by induction of modern technology into food processing, encouraging research and development, minimization of wastage across the food processing chain by development of infrastructure for storage, transportation and processing of agro-food produce to fill in the gaps of supply chain …
Labelling of genetically modified foods is a contentious issue and internationally there is sharp division on whether such labels ought to be mandatory. This debate has reached India where the government has proposed mandatory labels. Mandatory labelling aims to provide greater information and correspondingly more informed consumer choice. However, even …
A NEW technology that helps consumers and retailers identify food and medicine contamination early in the supply chain could soon grace your neighbourhood retailer. The Indian arm of the Brussels-based firm GS1
New Delhi: In India, food safety and standards are neglected topic despite being directly related to public health. According to a survey conducted by Ficci, almost 30% of the respondents, bulk of whom were from the food processing industry, were unaware that Food Safety and Standards Act (FSSA) is mandatory …
