FSSAI has issued a draft notice calling for views and suggestions from stakeholders of food service establishments with regard to the display of information on menu labels.
According to the notice, under the Food Safety and Standards (Packaging and Labelling) Regulations, 2011, in Regulation 2.4 related to Specific Requirements/ Restrictions, on the manner of labelling, a […]
FSSAI is actively considering reviewing the regulations it has prescribed for the organic food which came into force on July 1, 2018. The reason was said to be farmers’ protests at several places, who are finding it difficult to adhere to the norms.
“However, the country’s apex food regulator opined that the farmers are waking […]
FSSAI has authorised three labs from Sri Lanka to issue certificates to food and beverage products. These will not be rejected at Indian checkpoints now.
A delegation of experts from the country’s apex food regulator had recently visited the island nation for the purpose.
The Indian audit team comprised of the officials from FSSAI, the National […]
Around nine deaths and one possible death and massive frozen products recall have been reported in countries as far and near as Austria, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Australia, South Africa and the United Arab Emirates following a worldwide outbreak of listeria monocytogenes that started in Hungary about a week ago. Chains such […]
Update on date marking, upgrade on more than 26 pesticides, revision of additives list, and clarity on cadmium in chocolate, marked the Codex Alimentarius Commission’s 41st Session, a joint FAO and WHO food standards programme, that concluded its annual outing at FAO Headquarters, Rome, recently.
The five-day meet was attended by over 650 delegates from […]
FSSAI, the country’s apex food regulator, has further amended the food additive regulation, issuing new standards for chia oil and its fatty acid composition through a draft notification. These regulations will be known as Food Safety and Standards (Food Products Standards and Food Additives) Amendment Regulations, 2018.
As per the draft notification, in the Food […]
India’s first biofortified sorghum (jowar), with significantly higher iron and zinc than regular sorghum, was formally launched recently. Developed by the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), the improved variety, ICSR 14001, was released as Parbhani Shakti for cultivation by Vasantrao Naik Marathwada Krishi Vidyapeeth (VNMKV), Maharashtra.
It offers a cost-effective and […]
FSSAI has collaborated with the National Biodiesel Association to establish a nationwide ecosystem for the collection of used cooking oil and its conversion into bio-diesel, in adherence to the country’s apex food regulator’s directive to monitor the quality of used cooking oil, which came into force recently.
This was stated by Pawan Kumar Agarwal, chief […]
CRISIL foresees revenue from value-added dairy products (VAP)1 growing at a healthy 14-15 per cent, annually over the next three fiscals, or about 50 per cent faster than the overall sector’s growth rate.
That, along with steady growth in milk sales, should crank up the dairy sector’s revenue to Rs 7.5 lakh crore by fiscal 2021 […]
The Institute of Plasma Research (IPR), Gandhinagar, Gujarat, has developed a technology to produce plasma-activated water (PAW) that has the potential to keep fruits and vegetables fresh.
PAW is produced by exposing water to non-thermal air or oxygen plasma. Sharing the details on it, S K Nema, who was involved in the research, explained, “Air […]