Bihar wants ‘khaini’ covered under food safety Act
PATNA: The Bihar health department plans to write to the Union health ministry, requesting it to include ‘khaini’ as a food product under the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006. ‘Khaini’ is said to
Food Safety and Standards Act 2006
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Noida school canteens issued safety advisory
The Gautam Budh Nagar administration has issued stringent guidelines for the canteens running in various schools of the district on Thursday. According to the district administration, the guidelines have
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Food safety department doing little to thwart big offences, says CAG
CHENNAI: Catching the small fry and letting go of the big fish has brought the state food safety department under the Comptroller and Auditor General of India's radar. The auditing body, in its latest
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Question raised in Lok Sabha on Adulteration in Food Items, 22/12/2017
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Adulteration in Food Items, 22/12/2017. Cases of adulteration, including use of harmful chemicals in food items, do come to the notice of Food Safety and Standards Authority
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Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India on Performance Audit of Implementation of Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006
The Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 was enacted to consolidate multiple laws in the country relating to food safety, to establish a single point reference system, and to establish the Food Safety and
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Kolkata's raw food is loaded with toxic lead: GSI study
KOLKATA: From Tollygunge to Kidderpore and Gariahat to Amherst Street, every time you buy vegetables, fish, chicken or grocery from roadside markets, you are taking home dollops of heavy metal poison in
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Directions under Section 16(5) of the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 regarding operationalisation of amendment regulations regarding revised standards for milk and milk products and certain restriction on sale of cream
<p>The country will get new national standards after 60 years that will standardise outdated benchmarks for determining adulteration. According to these revised standards introduced by top food regulator - Food Safety Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) - fat content now ranges between 1.5% and 6%, down from a minimum of 3% before. The standards were revised because of the change in environmental conditions, quality of fodder, water that cattle consume.</p>
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375 cases registered under Food Safety Act
In all, 375 cases of the violation of the Food Safety and Standards Act 2006 have been registered for selling food items not adhering to the required standards in the district. More than Rs 11 lakh have
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Seven months since FSSAI advisory, Karnataka yet to ban newspaper food packaging
BENGALURU: Foods contaminated by newspaper ink raise serious health concerns since printing ink, besides containing chemical contaminants, may have pathogenic microorganisms. Kerala Food Safety Commissioner
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FSSAI: transforming the food and nutrition landscape in India
The Report, ‘FSSAI: Transforming the Food and Nutrition Landscape in India’ is a compilation of the work done by FSSAI since its inception, particularly in the year 2016-2017, a landmark year in the evolution