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 […]
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 […]
Soil pollution poses a worrisome threat to agricultural productivity, food safety and human health, but far too little is known about the scale and severity of that threat. This was stated by a recently-released Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) report titled Soil Pollution: A Hidden Reality, at the start of a three-day global symposium […]
While the overall bread industry is growing at CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate) of 9% from last three years and expected to be US$0.8bn by 2020, industries and business partners need to be ready for more volume, new warehouses, more outlets and retailers.
Among all, what stands out is ‘quality’ of the product and due […]
A biscuit is a small baked product, whose exact meaning varies markedly in different parts of the world. The origin of the word biscuit is from a Latin phrase (via Middle French) meaning cooked twice.
The Indian biscuits Industry came into the limelight and started gaining a sound status in the bakery industry in the […]
FSSAI has decided to issue online certificates of licensing and registration to food business operators (FBOs). The certificates will be sent directly to the FBOs’ registered e-mail addresses or the Food Licensing Registration System (FLRS) bin instead of sending across a hard copy to their addresses. This decision shall start from May 1, 2018.
The […]
Strengthening its position as a leading supplier of quality frozen shrimp and frozen fish in international markets, India exported 10,85,378 metric tonne (MT) of seafood valued at Rs 35,916.60 crore in the first ten months of financial year (FY) 2017-18 as against 9,54,744MT and Rs 32,620.03 crore, respectively, a year earlier, registering a growth […]