Inside BENEO’s new pulse plant: pioneering sustainable protein from faba beans
Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Radha Mohan Singh recently announced a Rs 215-crore project through the National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC) for Meghalaya Milk Mission for various training under dairy farm, chilling centre
Section 22 of the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 provides inter-alia, that no person shall manufacture, distribute, sell or import any genetically modified article of food except as otherwise provided under the Act and
India’s health supplement and nutraceutical industry is rapidly growing and is poised to be USD 10 Billion industry by 2025. As this sector grows, FSSAI is gearing itself to strengthen the regulatory ecosystem through cross-border
Addressing an Assocham event, Chairman of FSSAI Ashish Bahuguna said, "Everyone expects the acceptability of nutraceuticals to grow. I feel the first challenge is that consumers have confusion. There is so much misinformation." There
The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) and the Ministry of Food processing Industries recently organized a conference on ‘Startups & MSMEs in Food Processing’ in partnership with the ICAR-NRC on Mithun,
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) and the Central Institute of Fisheries Technology (CIFT), Cochin, have co-developed a document that highlights key precautions which should be taken by consumer, traders and lab
As part of the National Nutrition Mission (NNM), being implemented on pilot basis in four districts in Kerala, the health department has added reduction in obesity and encouraging breastfeeding as additional targets. NNM, implemented
The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government has planned to introduce fortified rations (vitamin- and supplement-added wheat and rice) in 118 so-called ‘aspirational districts’ to improve nutrition outcomes among children and women in the first initiative
India’s tuberculosis programme hopes to hand out cash incentives to 13 lakh patients by the end of July, even though it only reaches 3.5 lakh currently. The Nikshay Poshan Yojana, the centre’s scheme to give
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has initiated the Eat Right campaign, wherein the key stakeholders like food processing industries and restaurants will volunteer to reduce the percentage of salt, sugar and