Inside BENEO’s new pulse plant: pioneering sustainable protein from faba beans
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) is working on a set of rules for labeling of food products, particularly those considered high in fat, sugar and salt. The country’s apex food regulator
Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Radha Mohan Singh said that it is a matter of immense pride that India is number one in milk production in the world. In the year 2015-16, the
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has notified the revised standards for chocolates, and brought two more chocolates praline and couverture under the standard product category. The new standards permit the use
Indian government is all charged up to set the ball rolling for the Goods and Services Tax regime which will be implemented form 1st July, 2017. Before the government rolls out GST, it has decided
India’s central biotech regulator, Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC), cleared the genetically modified (GM) Mustard for commercial cultivation and recommended its approval to the environment ministry "The application on GM Mustard presented by Deepak Pental
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi recently has given its approval for re-structuring the schemes of the Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MoFPI) under new
Food Safety and Standards Authority of India has organised a National Summit on Food Safety and Nutrition landscape in India at Hotel Lalit, New Delhi. The event was chaired by chief guest Amitabh Kant, CEO,
In a unique initiative, the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India piloted high-level discussions between national and international experts on an innovative framework to create ‘Food Smart Cities’ in India. Building on the Ministry
The government had in 2016 allowed overseas retailers to sell food products manufactured locally but they lobbied to be allowed to carry more items of daily use in order to make such outlets more viable.
The food regulator, FSSAI has now proposed a set of measures, including tax, strict labelling norms and ban on their advertisements on children’s shows, to check the consumption of food products high on fat, sugar