Inside BENEO’s new pulse plant: pioneering sustainable protein from faba beans
By Milind Kokje, Chief Editor, NUFFOODS Spectrum In her budget address to the nation, describing investment as the ‘third engine’ of the country's development and growth, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has rightly commenced with ‘investing
NuFFooDSSPECTRUM | April 2020 |www.nuffoodsspectrum.inThe health supplements market comprising vitamins / minerals / nutrients in India is Rs 12,280 crore growing at 9.1 per cent for MAT February 2020. During April 2019 – February 2020,
It may be sheer coincidence but very timely and important. The US Supreme Court recently rejected juice maker POM Wonderful’s challenge to Federal Trade Com-mission’s (FTC) findings that the company’s advertising, making health claims, was
The noodles controversy in the country is getting dragged too long like the long noodles itself and has widen also with one more brand added to it. It started with Nestle’s Maggi brand noodles and
Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) suffered two major judicial setbacks in the span of less than a week. First one in the Bombay high court over Maggi wrangle. And the other in
First the sweet news. After a gap of 6 months, the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) finally has a full time Chairman with the appointment of Ashish Bahuguna. Add to this two
The need for boost to Nutraceutical industry lies in the fact of making large number of the products in India where one has the raw material and at the same time the biodiversity which allows
The recent ban over multinational Nestle’s Maggi brand of instant noodles has touched upon issues related to food safety, food standards, food testing, distribution, product recall and many more. The action by the regulators on
India is no stranger to controversies related to the use of food ingredients in popular eatables. The last major controversy was almost 28 years ago. Times of India’s (TOI) science reporter had exposed the presence
Maharashtra FDA commissioner Harshdeep Kamble’s recent appeal to food scientists and technologists’ community to work closely with FDA to introduce new ideas and methods for FSSA enforcement, needs to go a step ahead. And should