Of the 1,186 food samples collected over the last three months by the Society of Pollution and Environmental Conservation Scientists (SPECS), Dehradun, Uttarakhand, from 47 places along the Char Dham Yatra routes of Garhwal region of Uttarakhand, 1,003 samples (or a whopping 84.5 per cent) were found to be adulterated.
Eighty-four per cent of the […]
FSSAI has issued an order on import of organic food products, directing all the state food authorities to reject all the imported food consignments which claimed to be organic, but do not comply with the food safety regulations.
The Food Safety and Standards (Organic Foods) Regulations, 2017 was notified under the Food Safety and Standards […]
FSSAI, the country’s apex food regulator, has decided to list and notify processing aids, in a bid to bring in more clarity with respect to processing of food. In this regard, an appendix is being added to the Food Safety and Standards (Food Products Standards and Food Additives) Amendment Regulations, 2018. FSSAI has issued […]
The food industry has reacted positively to the proposed amendments in the licensing and registration regulations under the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006. Terming them an effort to reduce the barriers, it opined that this would bring down the paperwork it entails, as well as ensure self-compliance.
“To facilitate food businesses, the proposed regulations […]
Thirty-nine per cent of Indians opined that fruits and vegetables was the category in which adulteration was most rampant.
This was their answer to the first question in LocalCircles’ four-point survey, which informed that 78 per cent of the country’s citizens had faced food adulteration.
The survey was about the category in which they have witnessed […]
India cannot depend on imported food security, but on home-grown food security. This was stated by Venkaiah Naidu, the country’s vice-president, at the National Consultation on Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition, which took place at the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF), Chennai, on Monday.
“Agriculture is our basic culture, and our core philosophy is of […]
The new regulations on printing ink for food packaging material shall be in place by July 2019. FSSAI, the country’s apex food regulator, is working on the regulations, and it would take another year-and-a-half for the process to be complete. This was stated by Kumar Anil, advisor, standards, FSSAI, at the International Packaging Conclave-PackPlus, […]
Tetra Pak, the world’s leading food processing and packaging solutions company, has appointed Ashutosh Manohar, as managing director for its South Asia markets.
As managing director, he is responsible for Tetra Pak’s business operations in the South Asia markets, including India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bhutan. He will be based at the company’s India […]
The Government of India is actively considering to incentivise trade in milk and milk products in the country and their exports. According to sources, there was a high-level meeting recently, at which the situation of the milk producers was deliberated on. According to experts, it was due, as recently, the Centre raised the minimum […]
FSSAI has issued a notice revising the standards for synthetic syrup and sharbat in a bid to improve the additives regulations. The country’s apex food regulator has sought views and suggestions from the concern stakeholders in this regard.
As per the revised draft, fruit syrups/fruit sharbats have been removed from the definition under the clause […]