Inside BENEO’s new pulse plant: pioneering sustainable protein from faba beans
The enactment of Food Safety and Standards Act 2006 (FSSA 2006) completed 10 years last month. The Parliament passed the Act, which received President’s assent on August 23, 2006. With this Act India took a
Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) released the draft stating new standards for alcoholic beverages, defining each type of beverage and cites separate regulations for them. Along with the draft FSSAI also released
Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) under the Ministry of health and family welfare, has said that the term fast food is not defined under the Food Safety and Standards (FSS) Act, 2006
If one has to talk on harmonisation of Indian standards with that of codex, one has to understand the need for the same. India is a signatory of WTO as well as Sanitary as well
Caffeinated energy and soft drinks makers in the European Union will not be allowed to claim the drinks boost alertness or concentration after the European Parliament blocked European Commission proposals to regulate but allow these
Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) have now joined hands with Mysuru-based CSIR-CFTRI (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-Central Food Technological Research Institute) to assist their technology expertise to provide hygienic food products and
Food Safety and Standards Authority of India has come up with a National Risk Assessment Cell to ascertain risk areas of concern. This has been done to strengthen the food safety ecosystem that would eventually
In a major blow to curb junk food consumption, Kerala Government has imposed 14.5% ’fat tax’ on the consumption of junk food items like pizzas and burgers sold through branded restaurants and 5% tax on
Union Cabinet meeting chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved a long-term contract by signing a MoU with Mozambique for import of pulses either through the private channels or Government-to-Government (G2G) sales through
Karnataka government has now set up an Agriculture Mission to reduce the gap between the government departments and the farmers by providing information at their doorstep. Although the initiative was started in 2015 to help