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Packaged food products sold under names that are yet to receive trademark confirmation could attract a goods and services tax (GST) rate of 5 per cent, ending the exemption they enjoy now. The GST
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), in a bid to ensure uniformity in the method of testing food samples in laboratories and avoid variations in results, has issued a notice stating that
The Central government has received a proposal from the government of Telangana for the establishment of a spice park in Nizamabad for turmeric. The Spices Board would extend all technical support if the land and
The Union Cabinet chaired by the Narendra Modi, Prime Minister has given its ex-post facto approval for MoU signed between India and various BRICs countries for the establishment of the BRICS Agriculture Research Platform (BRICS-ARP).
Indian Farmers’ Fertiliser Cooperative (IFFCO), the world’s largest processed fertiliser cooperative, inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the government of Sikkim, on the basis of which Sikkim IFFCO Organics Limited (Sikkim-IFFCO) will be established
The government of Haryana has imposed a ban on the use of liquid nitrogen in food preparations (including frozen desserts) and beverages (including cocktails), following the death of a man from Delhi, who had a
In a bid to test fruits for the presence of calcium carbide and other chemicals used to hasten the process of ripening them, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has submitted a recommendation to the
Various nodal agencies have been instructed by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) to check the import of pepper into country. The authorities have instructed the agencies on possible contamination in pepper
India’s food processing industry received 43 per cent higher foreign direct investment (FDI) in the fiscal year 2016-17 on the back of favourable policy measures. While the food processing industry received $727 million in
The Supreme Court has asked the government to stop itself from starting any project on, or commercial release of genetically modified (GM) mustard. A Bench of Chief Justice of India J.S. Khehar and Justice D.Y.