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FSSAI to conduct training programmes for preventing food contamination

Policy | News | 20 Jan, 2021

The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has recently written a letter to the Food Safety Commissioners ...

NGT wants FSSAI to swiftly resolve plastic usage regulations for food & medicine packaging

Policy | News | 20 Jan, 2021

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has urged the apex food regulatory body, Food Safety and Standards Authority of India ...

Govt unveils Rs 1000 Cr startup seed fund with emphasis on food & agri

Policy | News | 18 Jan, 2021

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has recently announced the launch of a Rs 1,000 crore startup India seed fund intending to ...

FSSAI cracks down on FBOs using carcinogenic oils

Policy | News | 15 Jan, 2021

The Food Safety Department has directed all the business operators to stop using edible cooking oil with Total Polar Com...

APEDA hosts buyer-seller meet to promote millet products

Policy | News | 13 Jan, 2021

The Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA), in association with Andhra Pradesh Dr...

TRIFED to set up five TRIFOOD Parks in MP

Policy | News | 05 Jan, 2021

The Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation of India (TRIFED), under the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, has dec...

FSSAI limits trans fats levels in foods

Policy | News | 04 Jan, 2021

The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has declared that all edible refined oils, margarines, bakery s...

FSSAI takes action on rampant spice adulteration

Policy | News | 01 Jan, 2021

The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has issued a letter to the Commissioner of Food Safety of all S...

FSSAI intensifies drive against unlicensed FBOs in Srinagar

Policy | News | 31 Dec, 2020

A fresh drive has begun in the Srinagar district against Food Business Operators, who are running their business without...

FSSAI issues guidelines for fortifying processed food products

Policy | News | 28 Dec, 2020

The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has recently laid out standards for permissible degrees of micr...

TRIFED inks MoU with MoFPI to develop new range of tribal food

Policy | News | 29 Dec, 2020

The Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation of India (TRIFED), under the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, has bee...

ICAR inks MoU with MoFPI to support micro-level food entrepreneurs

Policy | News | 22 Dec, 2020

Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) has signed an MoU with Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MoFPI) rec...

QCI launches recognition scheme for hygiene rating audit agencies

Policy | News | 16 Dec, 2020

Quality Council of India (QCI) at the behest of the FSSAI has come out with a Scheme for approval of Hygiene Rating Audi...

AYUSH Ministry approves 200 health & wellness centres in Uttarakhand

Policy | News | 15 Dec, 2020

Under the Centrally Sponsored Scheme of National AYUSH Mission (NAM), the Ministry of AYUSH has recently approved 2...

APEDA, IIMR strategise action plan to promote millets

Policy | News | 03 Dec, 2020

Considering the potential of increasing exports of Millets and Millet products and the focus given by Government for dev...

Govt to develop National Institute of Naturopathy campus at Pune

Policy | News | 04 Dec, 2020

Invoking recollections of Mahatma Gandhi’s famous Nature Cure campaign of 1946 at the “Nisarg Upchar” ...

Government aims to take food processing facilities to far off regions

Policy | News | 25 Nov, 2020

Union Minister for Food Processing Industries, Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, Na...

MoFPI opens Mega Food Park in Punjab

Policy | News | 24 Nov, 2020

Union Minister for Food Processing Industries, Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Rural Development and Panchayati Raj has...