Inside BENEO’s new pulse plant: pioneering sustainable protein from faba beans
Lov Verma, a 1978-batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre, working as Secretary, Department of AIDS Control under Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has been appointed as Secretary, Department of Health and Family Welfare.
The Union Minister of Health & Family Welfare, Ghulam Nabi Azad launched indigenously technologies developed by the National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) Hyderabad, in New Delhi on Feb 20. These include three different kits for
On the backdrop of recent food import clearance issue, Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has issued import-related guidelines to its authorised officers. The guidelines try to clear ambiguity over labelling and other
The US Food and Drug Administration (US-FDA) announced that Commissioner Margaret A. Hamburg, MD will travel to India next week to further strengthen cooperation between the FDA and its Indian regulatory counterparts. She will visit
The Bombay High Court has extended the deadline for product approval and obtaining licenses by eight weeks. The new deadline is therefore 28th March 2014."In our view, taking into consideration the peculiar facts and the
Tetra Pak, a leading company in food processing and packaging has announced that it is closing down its plant in the Netherlands due to declining demand and over capacity from other Tetra Pak plants in
In its latest step to increase the safety of the American food supply, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have issued the 2013 Voluntary National Retail Food Regulatory Program Standards (Retail Program Standards). The
The US Food and Drug Administration (US-FDA) has announced that it is now accepting online submissions of voluntary and mandatory dietary supplement adverse event reports (AERs). FDA has implemented a secure capability in the interest
Following a request by Nexira, a global natural ingredients supplier, the US-FDA (United States Food and Drug Administration) has expanded safe use of acacia gum (known as gum Arabic or Babul in India) across the
The number of overweight and obese adults in developing countries has ballooned from 250 million to almost 1 billion. The figure is highlighted in a major new review from the Overseas Development Institute exposing the