Modified Atmosphere Packaging – A fresh approach to food packaging
Modified Atmosphere Packaging is also known as gas flushing, protective atmosphere packaging or reduced oxygen packaging.
Modified Atmosphere enables fresh and minimally processed packaged food products to maintain visual, textural and nutritional appeal. The controlled MAP environment enables food packaging to provide an extended shelf life without requiring the addition […]
Food regulator FSSAI will launch “rigorous” inspections on food companies to ensure that best standards are followed as part of its effort to build trust among people about the safety and quality of cooked or packaged products, its CEO Pawan Kumar Agarwal said Thursday. The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) will […]
Food businesses in India will not be able to use words or phrases such as natural, fresh, original, traditional, authentic, genuine and real on food labels except under specific conditions detailed as per a notification issued by FSSAI.
The regulations — Food Safety and Standards (Advertising and Claims) Regulations, 2018, — will pertain to claims […]
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has launched Heart Attack Rewind, a mass media campaign calling for the elimination of industrially-produced trans fat in the food supply.
The 30-second public service announcement (PSA) – the first mass media campaign of its kind – will support FSSAI’s global target of eliminating trans fat […]
Technology on farms is possible only with innovation and policy support in India. The country is witnessing uberisation on farms, with miniaturisation of equipment to sow and irrigate agricultural lands.
This was stated by Ashok Gulati, Indian agricultural economist and former chairman, Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP) at the Bangalore Technology Summit, where […]
As a result of the various schemes operationalised by the Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MoFPI), Government of India, food processing and preservation capacities have increased by 351 per cent, cold chain and cold storage capacities have gone up by 720 per cent, five lakh jobs have been created and infrastructure has been created […]
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), in a recent development, has gazette notified the regulation on laboratories, giving a structure to the food lab ecosystem in the country by detailing out recognition and notification of laboratories. Eventually, the new norms will help improve quality of food testing.
The comprehensive regulations will replace […]
Pomegranate farmers in the state of Maharashtra are facing a serious crunch due to drought impact on over 50 per cent of the plantation. This was stated by Prabhakar Chandane, president, All India Pomegranate Growers’ Federation.
Exports of the fruit to the European Union (EU) commence from December and continue till March, but according to […]
The Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) demanded a complete overhaul of retail trade of India in a communication sent to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The body listed some of the core and critical issues, including the need for an immediate e-commerce policy; incentives and encouragement to digital payments; accidental insurance of traders, a […]
The Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India is aiming at exponential growth in the milk production in the country. Agriculture and farmers’ welfare minister Radha Mohan Singh said that his ministry was aiming at 250 million tonne of milk production in the country by 2022.
He added that the government had taken several initiatives in […]