7 public health labs closed for lack of food analyst
JAIPUR: The state has implemented the Food Safety and Standards (FSS) Act 2006 to check food adulteration and ensure food safety, but due to unavailability of food analyst, over the years it has to...
View ArticleFear of inspectors eating up food industry
NEW DELHI: It has become a bit like the inspector raj of yore. Government assessors walk up to restaurants, groceries, sidewalk cafes, and randomly pick up samples of packaged water, coffee, noodles,...
View ArticleMilk samples adulterated with sugar, edible oil ring health alarm
PUNE: Milk samples collected from the Pune administrative division and tested were found adulterated with sugar and edible oil, and of substandard quality. A Food and Drug Administration (FDA) report...
View ArticleFSSAI enhances packaged water, milk and edible oil surveillance
Amid rising concerns over safety of food items, central food regulator FSSAI has asked states...
View ArticleMost cases of milk adulteration in Pune
PUNE: The problem of milk adulterated with sugar, glucose powder and edible oil persists in Maharashtra, with most cases registered in Pune in the last financial year. Food and drug administration...
View ArticleSteps taken to Curb Adulteration in Food Items (Ministry of Health and Family...
(Source: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of the Republic of India) Consumption of adulterated and spurious food items is a serious health hazard. As per information received from States/UT...
View ArticleAfter Maggi, packaged milk, water under FSSAI lens: Reports
New Delhi, June 23: With an aim to ensure compliance of standards by various products in the market in the wake of Maggi controversy, the Food Safety Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has...
View ArticleF for food, F for fake: How FSSAI tests adulteration
He grasps two test tubes in his hand, each with a yellow powder at its base, and asks us to look carefully, as he pipettes a few ml of hydrochloric acid in each tube. The first tube turns a murky...
View ArticleNationwide survey to check food adulteration begins in January
NEW DELHI: With growing instances of adulteration of food items in recent years, particularly items like milk and milk products, packaged drinking water, edible oil, ground spices, tea and coffee, the...
View ArticleFSSAI asks states to test milk
BHUBANESWAR: After the Maggi row, the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has asked all states to test samples of packaged milk, water and edible oil sold in the market. The food...
View ArticleFSSAI enhances packaged water, milk & edible oil surveillance
Amid rising concerns over safety of food items, central food regulator FSSAI has asked states to increase surveillance and act against entities selling contaminated packaged drinking water as well as...
View ArticleFood safety regulator issues countrywide alert on milk, water & edible oil packs
NEW DELHI: Sounding a countrywide alert on adulteration of food commodities, the central food safety regulator has asked all states to keep a strict watch on milk, packaged drinking water and edible...
View ArticleRaj yet to react to FSSAI alert on food & water adulteration
JAIPUR: Following complains of adulteration and labeling violations, the Food Safety and Standards Authority (FSSAI) of India has released a nationwide alert on milk, water and edible oil packs. Though...
View ArticleFSSAI wants to trim fat content of milk, ice cream
New Delhi: Food safety watchdog FSSAI is planning to set new quality standards for ice-cream and flavoured milk besides tightening the existing safety norms for milk and other dairy products. The...
View ArticleIce-cream, flavoured milk under FSSAI lens; new norms for milk
Food safety watchdog FSSAI is planning to set new quality standards for ice-cream and flavoured milk besides tightening the existing safety norms for milk and other dairy products. The proposal comes...
View ArticleCheck on Adulterated Food Items (Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of the...
(Source: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of the Republic of India) Press Information Bureau Government of India Ministry of Health and Family Welfare 21-July-2015 13:00 IST Check on Adulterated...
View ArticleFSSAI raids reveal food adulteration
: Officials of the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) have ordered temporary closure of two hotels at Charummodu and a soda-making factory at Kayamkulam. More than 35 food...
View ArticleLess no of labs may hamper govt's drive against food adulteration
JAIPUR: The government has revoked the ban on mawa (condensed milk) and is now depending on strict monitoring and testing of food, specially before the festive season. However, this may seem too...
View ArticleFDA intensifies surveillance to curb adulteration of sweets
PUNE: Be it excessive use of edible colours or pistachio substituted with coloured groundnut flakes, adulteration in sweets is always rampant in the market ahead of the festive season. Officials of the...
View ArticleMilk adulteration: FSSAI proposes new norms
Standards set for cream, curd, paneer, cheese and desserts With milk adulteration becoming a routine affair, the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has come out with the first...
View ArticleSurvey: 1/4th of packaged milk, water 'unsafe'
New Delhi: The packaged water and milk that you buy may not be as safe as claimed. Around 28% samples of packaged drinking water and about 23% milk samples tested during 2014-15 were found violating...
View Article28% samples of packaged drinking water, 23% of milk samples found violating...
NEW DELHI: The packaged water and milk, that you buy assuming it is safe and of good quality, may not necessarily be so. Around 28% samples of packaged drinking and mineral water and about 23% milk...
View ArticleHalf-baked safety standards & nonchalant attitudes to hygiene: Is every food...
Wade through the busy road leading to Azadpur Mandi in the Capital, Asia's largest wholesale market for fruits and vegetables, and you will see different varieties being sold by the roadside. Also for...
View ArticleDrive against sale of loose spices, edible oil in Jaipur
Jaipur: Sale of edible oil and powdered spices without proper packaging is not allowed under the provisions of Food Safety and Standard Act (FSSA). However, several shops in the city are selling loose...
View ArticleBeware of Thandai adulteration this Holi!
New Delhi, March 23 (IANS) With Holi, the festival of colours, approaching on Thursday, Thandai and sweets like Gujiya are the first edibles that pop up in one's minds, but it's imperative to remain...
View ArticleF for food, F for fake
He grasps two test tubes in his hand, each with a yellow powder at its base, and asks us to look carefully, as he pipettes a few ml of hydrochloric acid in each tube. The first tube turns a murky...
View ArticleWhy a top food safety expert doesn’t eat oysters and always orders meat...
(AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) In the aftermath of an E. coli outbreak at Chipotle, which sickened dozens of people across the United States last fall, and led to an overhaul of the company's food...
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(Source: Ames Research Center) How To Train Your Astronauts | NASA Astronauts Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren during International Space Station EVA Maintenance 9 Training at the Neutral Buoyancy Lab at...
View ArticleMilk samples with sugar, edible oil ring health alarm
PUNE: Milk samples collected from the Pune administrative division and tested were found adulterated with sugar and edible oil, and of substandard quality. A Food and Drug Administration (FDA) report...
View ArticleHealth food under government lens
PUNE: The ever-increasing craze for dietary supplements, especially among youths who yearn for a well-sculpted body with six or 10 pack abs, has compelled the Food Safety and Standards Authority of...
View ArticleMaggi: Two-minute turmoil
In soup: There is no finality on the Maggi controversy some three weeks after it first surfaced Over the last 2-3 weeks, no day passed without some development being reported on Nestle’s Maggi noodles....
View ArticleIncreased Surveillance on Adulterated Food items (Ministry of Health and...
(Source: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of the Republic of India) Milk and other food articles have been included in the SurveillancePlan for states prepared by a Working Group of Food Safety...
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(Source: New York State Senate) 2016-2017 NEW YORK STATE BUDGET The New York State 2016-17 State Budget reflects the Senate Republican Conference's commitment to improving the economic opportunities...
View ArticleSoon, glass of milk to be added to mid-day meal in Rajasthan
JAIPUR: A glass of hot milk will soon be added into the mid-day meal (MDM) menu for students of elementary classes in Rajasthan. The MDM commissioner office has confirmed that they will be adding the...
View ArticleMilk to be added to mid-day meal in Rajasthan
JAIPUR: A glass of hot milk will soon be added into the mid-day meal (MDM) menu for students of elementary classes in Rajasthan. The MDM commissioner office has confirmed that they will be adding the...
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(Source: Genocea Biosciences Inc) Item 1. Business Unless the context requires otherwise, references in this Annual Report on Form 10-K to 'Genocea', 'we', 'us' and 'our' refer to Genocea Biosciences,...
View ArticleUnion Budget 2016: Full text of Arun Jaitley's Budget speech
Madam Speaker, I rise to present the Budget for the year 2016-17. 2. I am presenting this Budget when the global economy is in serious crisis. Global growth has slowed down from 3.4% in 2014 to 3.1% in...
View ArticleFSSAI collecting samples of milk, honey to check quality
The decision was made after the food safety authority received complains from consumers. Food regulator FSSAI is collecting samples of milk and honey sold in the market to check quality of these two...
View ArticleHigh lead levels found, Delhi may ban Maggi
NEW DELHI: Maggi noodles is in trouble in Delhi amid indications that the state government may move to ban it. A Delhi government spokesman said 10 out of 13 samples tested for lead content in the...
View ArticleMinistry of Health and Family Welfare Notable Achievements and Initiatives-...
(Source: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of the Republic of India) 1. Mission Indradhanush The Ministry of Health & Family Welfare has launched 'Mission Indradhanush', depicting seven colours...
View ArticleEducation Technology, Surveillance, and America’s Authoritarian Democracy
The NSA has nothing on the monitoring tools that education technologists have developed to ‘personalize’ and ‘adapt’ learning for students in public school districts across the United States. – Jesse...
View ArticleNo 'instant' end to this impasse
Avoidable Imbroglio: FSSAI's hasty and unfair decision to impose a ban on Maggi has drawn flak The FSSAI should have followed well-established international standards before enforcing a ban on popular...
View ArticleFDA cautions citizens against rising adulteration in sweets
PUNE: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has seized adulterated sweets and its ingredients worth Rs 17.40 lakh and drawn over 373 samples for tests in the last 14 days. Be it excess use of edible...
View ArticleBeware, adulteration rampant in Visakhapatnam
VISAKHAPATNAM: Shocking but true: Many commercial establishments in this smart city in the making are peddling food items that are either adulterated or of substandard quality. Find this hard to...
View ArticleLoughinisland pub massacre: Full 2016 Police Ombudsman report into 1994...
The Police Ombudsman has found that collusion was a "significant feature" of the 1994 Loughinisland murders. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY On 18 June 1994, six people were brutally murdered and five people were...
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It’s autumn of 2010 and I’m standing in the exact spot where ten-year-old Kristine Mihelich was found dead as fucking winter in 1977, her newly plum-colored face a muted beacon in the freshly fallen...
View ArticleIs America Any Safer?
Fifteen years ago this September 11, 19 terrorists, using four jetliners as guided missiles, killed 2,977 people—and enveloped the country in fear. It was the first sustained attack on American soil...
View ArticleIndependent Review - Moncton Shooting - June 4, 2014 (Royal Canadian Mounted...
(Source: Royal Canadian Mounted Police) Submitted by: Assistant Commissioner Alphonse MacNeil (ret'd) Note: Throughout the document ***** denotes where content was redacted as per the Access to...
View ArticleYear End Review: Highlights of the Achievements of the Ministry of Finance...
(Source: Ministry of Finance of the Republic of India) During the current fiscal, Ministry of Finance has undertaken various initiatives and measures for enhancing the Revenue Collection ,easing and...
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