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 …
For years, anti-poverty campaigners railed against low commodity prices, which depressed farmers' incomes in developing countries. In recent months, the world price of virtually all staples has shot up, but the activists are still not cheering. They worry that this boom (intensified by "green' subsidies for biofuel crops) may worsen …
The monitoring programme for pesticide residues in food undertaken by the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (DAFF) through its Pesticide Control Service (PCS), at Backweston, Co. Kildare, is aimed at ensuring that consumers are not exposed to unacceptable pesticide residue levels. In addition, it is aimed at ensuring that …
The new subsidiary legislation to govern pesticide residues in food proposed by Hong Kong Food and Environmental Hygiene Department. Will take a positive list approach by primarily adopting the maximum residue limits and extraneous maximum residue limits of pesticides recommended by Codex. The Hong Kong Food and Environmental Hygiene Department …
During the last few days, questions and replies in the Assam Assembly relating to the food situation in the State have been a major cause for concern. This is not to suggest that we repose unquestioned faith in the replies and statistics furnished in Assembly or Parliament. But in a …
Subodh Kant Sahai is a man known to have donned different hats. In charge of the ministry for food processing industries, he believes that the industry's growth is remarkable and real. In conversation with Justin Thomas, he speaks about how the sector would be a focus and the effects it …
Policies and conditions which prevent the establishment of the preconditions for agency and reasoned decision by all citizens exclude India's poor from substantive citizenship and treat them as less than human. India's agricultural condition poses fundamental challenges to its credibility as a democracy. A number of related themes have been …
Dr BK Mukhopadhyay Food, beyond any shade of doubt, is the first need of all living beings. If we look back to history, it can be located that the inter-cultural movement of crops and livestock breeds revolutionized and reduced poverty. Africa gave the world coffee
We are into a period of global food shortage and rise in food prices which were not anticipated even a few years ago. A steeply rising food import bill in the medium term could well be on the cards. This is likely to put a severe strain on the Indian …
Japan Tobacco Inc will increase its own production of frozen foods while cutting back on outsourcing to China, President Hiroshi Kimura said Tuesday. JT will also expand the scope of its food safety inspections, which focus primarily on the manufacturing process at present, to new supervising procedures including the entire …
This paper sets out the Administration's proposal on the formulation of a Food Safety Bill with new food safety control tools to enhance the protection of public health and consumer interests.
Just over a decade after scientists cloned the first animal, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has declared that meat and milk from cloned farm animals are safe to eat. The announcement comes after a six-year-long study by the US Food and Drug Administration, which says food derived from cloned …
Beware before you pick up chyawanprash from a drug store. The most popular brands of this ayurvedic tonic has artificial sweeteners, which have unconscionable side-effects. On January 11, 2008, Ranbaxy Laboratories launched a sugar-free version of chyawanprash, which it calls
Two years ago, Parliament passed the food safety act. Till date the union health ministry has not notified the law in full, nor has it formulated rules under the act. Instead, the ministry has now signed an agreement with the us to draw up standards for import and export of …
on january 11, France decided to extend its October 2007 ban on a variety of gm maize. It decided to activate a European Union guideline that prohibits the cultivation of gm corn. The variety, Mon 810, developed by food multinational Monsanto, is the only gm crop that France is growing. …
This plan covers the monitoring of pesticide residues and other agriculture chemicals in fresh fruits of mango for export to Japan. It covers the orchard growers, packinghouses, exporters, accredited test laboratories and the national reference laboratory, and the state/central government organizations involved in with the export certification of mangoes to …
The Indian Council of Medical Research along with Review Committee on Genetic Modification (RCGM) and Genetic Engineering Approval Committee is formulating protocols to assess the safety of food derived from genetically engineered crops. "The new set of protocols is aimed at the stage prior to the making of a GM …
Lysine corn, a genetically modified version designed by Monsanto as animal feed, can now be legally imported and sold in New Zealand. The Food Safety Authority says it is satisfied with tests showing that the corn is safe and is like any other conventional corn. Environmental groups and the opposition …
