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. …
The Centre was on Wednesday given a 10-day deadline by the Delhi High Court to come out with detailed guidelines for regulating sale of junk food and aerated drinks on and around school premises in the country. “No further extension will be given,” a bench headed by Acting Chief Justice …
Pune: The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), the national food regulatory body, has issued an advisory following the outbreak of salmonellosis, a food-borne bacterial infection, in the US and New Zealand. Use of Tahini sesame paste from Turkey in food preparations has been found to be the …
Health authorities to initiate legal action against Sangrur shopkeepers A large number of powdered food supplements, promising rapid body growth, are being sold in every part of the state. The district health authorities recently collected six samples of such products procured from shops situated at Sunam, Dhuri and Dirba in …
If you think packaged water is safe to consume, think again!. Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has raised suspicions on the quality of bottled water being sold in the market and asked the apex food regulator to determine the chemical content of bottled water and report back to him in …
Suffering staff crunch, officials try to meet February 2014 deadline for registrations With a 60 per cent shortage in the number of food safety officers, implementation of the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2011, has become a problem in Karnataka. Unable to meet the targets of registrations of and issuance …
The move comes in the wake of severe water shortage across the State The Food Safety Commissioner, Biju Prabhakar, has issued a special set of guidelines to ensure the supply of drinking water through tanker lorries in the district. The guidelines were issued in the wake of a severe shortage …
New Delhi: Your neighbourhood sweetmeat shop may soon have to comply with stricter quality standards while preparing its rasgullas, barfis and snacks, with India’s food safety authority planning to bring in comprehensive norms for these eatables. The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has proposed the standardization of …
Pune:The country’s food safety and standards regulator has allowed use of higher levels of caffeine in energy drinks. The set standard of 145 parts per million (ppm) of caffeine has been relaxed up to 320 ppm for energy drinks, said Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) officials on Thursday. The regulator, …
Kochi: The wait of the public for quality food and hygiene in restaurants and eateries will continue with the deadline for registering them under the Food Safety and Standards Act 2006 extended by a year. Following a request from the state government, the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India …
Food companies say the move will delay new product development and innovation Probiotic ice-cream, digestive biscuits or lowsugar jams may be flying off retail shelves, but food companies are no longer being allowed to sell new products without taking approvals from the government-promoted Food Safety & Standards Authority of India …
Food Safety and Standards Authority of India had standards regulating 350 food commodities and plans were afoot to bring in more commodities under the purview of the regulating body, according to chairman of FSSAI K Chandramouli. Speaking during the launch programme of ‘Food Safety for all’, a mass contact education …
New Delhi: Food retail outlets and restaurants are busy revisiting their working models with the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) cracking the whip to ensure stricter food safety measures in the sector. While large chains claim to have ensured adherence to the new norms already, small-to-mid level …
Food Safety and Standard Authority of India (FSSAI) is planning to replicate the Gujarat model to ensure street food safety in eight cities including Bhubaneshwar, Hyderabad, Delhi, Lucknow, Kolkata among others. This apart, a senior official of FSSAI said here on Thursday that of the Rs 4,500 crore sanctioned by …
Section 16(2)(c), of the FSS Act, 2006 provides for the mechanism for accreditation of certification bodies for Food Safety Management Systems and Section 44 of FSS Act provides for recognition of organization or agency for food safety audit and checking compliance with Food Safety Management System required under the Act …
19 commodities are to be covered by the new labelling rule India might not have started growing genetically modified (GM) food crops, but it does import food products that contain GM ingredients. Consumers who buy them have no way of knowing what they contain. Recently, the department of consumer affairs, …
India will soon have a scientific regulatory agency responsible for the safety of the nation’s domestically produced and imported foods, cosmetics, drugs, biologics, medical devices, and radiological products. Proposed on the lines of Centre for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition in USA and the Centre for Disease Control, the new …
You are being led up the garden path by manufacturers of food and health products making tall claims in advertisements. The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) - which put many products under its scanner over the misleading claims - has initiated proceedings in 38 cases involving leading …
Directors of 14 regional cancer centres across the country, including the Indian Dental Association and Tata Memorial Centre (TMC), have written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Union Health Minister Ghulab Nabi Azad urging them to bring in a nationwide ban on the sale of gutka/pan masala products in the …
Ahead of the festive season, states have been asked to crack down on adulterators of milk as a countrywide survey showed that just one-third of the commodity sold in the market met safety and standards norms, the Centre has informed the Supreme Court. The survey was conducted by the Food …
