Price control of Oral Rehydration Salt (ORS), a life-saving intervention for diarrhoea, is mired in controversy as the company with the largest share in the ORS market has challenged the ceiling pr
Implementation of evidence-based interventions to control obesity is regarded as a public health priority. In this working paper, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness evidence of sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) taxes, nutrition labeling, advertising bans on unhealthy food, and school-based interventions are reviewed.
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Energy Drinks, 16/12/2016. Prevention of Food Adulteration Act,1954 has been repealed and a new Act namely, “The Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006” has been enacted by the Central Government.
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Harmful Toxic Chemicals in Cold and Energy Drinks, 29/11/2016. Standards for carbonated beverages (non-alocoholic) have been prescribed in regulation 2.10.6 of the Food Safety and Standards (Food Products Standards and Food Additives) Regulations, 2011.
Everytime an actor invites you to "Taste the Thunder" while endorsing a 300 ml bottle of cola, little do we realise that he is in fact advocating the consumption of ten tea spoons of sugar with eve
