In a major effort to introduce environment-friendly practices, Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC), a subsidiary of the Indian Railways, has now embarked on a project to replace its plastic cutlery with cups and plates made of biodegradable compostable material.
For this, it has teamed up with Yash Papers, India’s largest manufacturer of compostable […]
FSSAI is planning to make fortification of edible oil mandatory across India. The country’s apex food regulator is actively considering this move and has held discussions with the stakeholders in the recent past. In a couple of months, it plans to put forth the strategy for the same.
Pawan Kumar Agarwal, chief executive officer, FSSAI, […]
In a never-before move, the food and beverage industry bodies and associations, for highlighting their demand for a review of the proposed labelling norms by FSSAI, made a representation to FSSAI chairman Ashish Bahuguna here recently.
Bodies representing the biscuit, bread, halwai (sweetmeat), sugar, liquor and beverage sectors, rice and wheat mills, the Indian Dairy […]
FSSAI has, in principle, agreed to reduce the trans-fat content in vanaspati and bakery shortenings and margarines to less than two per cent, taking the call to further reduce the trans-fatty acid (TFA) content in food.
The decision was taken at a meeting in New Delhi of FSSAI officials and vanaspati and edible oil manufacturers. […]
The Food Fortification Resource Centre (FFRC), housed in FSSAI, observed World Milk Day – established by the United Nations’ (UN) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and celebrated on June 1 every year – to commemorate the dairy sector’s contributions to sustainability, economic development, livelihoods and nutrition, and spread the message about adding milk fortified […]
Ram Vilas Paswan, minister of consumer affairs, food and public distribution, Government of India, launched the Handbook for the Implementation of Cash Transfer of Food Subsidy, which has been jointly developed by the Department of Food and Public Distribution (DoFPD) and the World Food Programme (WFP), in New Delhi recently.
The handbook is a step-by-step […]
The ministry of food processing industries (MoFPI) has released a consolidated list of food parks in a bid to open the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) fund of Rs 2,000 crore to more food processing units.
The list contained a total of 201 designated parks, including mega parks, food parks, industrial areas, […]
S K Pattanayak, secretary, ministry of agriculture, cooperation and farmers’ welfare, Government of India, said that there was a need to connect farmers to a value chain as this will help them to become agri entrepreneurs.
He was speaking at a conference titled Development of Linkages for Sustainability of FPOs, which was organised by the […]
PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry has urged the government to promote and propagate genetically-modified (GM) foods to enable India catapult its agricultural and horticultural economies, stating that eventually with GM food applications, India could be one of the largest exporters of its agricultural produce.
The Chamber also appealed to the government emphasising that the […]
FSSAI has issued a gazette notification amending the Food Safety and Standards (Food Product Standards and Food Additives) Regulations, 2011. The amendments are related to the revision of cane jaggery (cane gur) and sodium saccharin (food grade) and new standards for calcium saccharin (food grade). These regulations are called the Food Safety and Standards […]