Health

Honey Grading and Marking Rules, 2008

Honey Grading and Marking Rules, 2008.

Publication Date: 
23/12/2008
Ministry of Agriculture
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Honey, India, Health, Food Standards, Food Safety, Food Contamination, Food Additives, Health Effects
Agriculture

Food biotechnology: consumer perceptions of food biotechnology - summary of key findings for India

The study conducted by AFIC on how consumers in India perceive the use of biotechnology to produce foods. It reveals that the most common food safety concern are pesticide residues, food poisoning, and food from unknown source.

Publication Date: 
01/12/2008
Asian Food Information Centre
Tags:
Food Supply, Food Poisoning, Food Additives, Pesticides And Toxins, Pesticide Residues, Food Safety, GMOs, Biotechnology, India
Pesticides And Toxins

Safety evaluation of certain food additives and contaminants

This report contains monographs prepared at the sixty-eighth meeting of the Joint FAOM0 Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA), which met in Geneva, Switzerland, from 19 to 28 June 2007.

Publication Date: 
01/12/2008
WHO
Tags:
Food Contamination, Food Additives, Pesticides And Toxins, Acute Toxicity, Toxicity Studies, Food Safety, Toxicology, WHO
Food Policy

Food for thought: issues of food safety

The Ministry of Food Processing Industries, GOI, has declared 2008-09 as Food safety and Quality Year. Food safety implies absence or safe levels of various of kinds of contaminants. Sources of food contamination include harmful chemicals, heavy metals, pesticides, preservatives, colouring agents, additives, adulterants etc.

Publication Date: 
01/12/2008
Toxics Link
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Pesticides, Food Contamination, Food Adulteration, Food Additives, Heavy Metals, Mercury, Pesticides And Toxins, Maximum Residue Level (MRL), Food Safety, India
Health

 Sweet success

your natural sweetener may become healthier and a little cheaper. The Food Technology Department of the Lakshmi Narayan Institute of Technology, Nagpur, has devised a method to prepare a water-based extract of stevia, a small bushy herb that yields natural sweetener stevioside. The technology involves boiling the leaves in water and collection of extract from the steam. D K

Publication Date: 
29/09/2008
Down to Earth
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Food Additives, Health Effects, Health, India, Nagpur (D)
Health

Prevention of Food Adulteration (5th Amendment) Rules, 2008

These rules may be called the Prevention of Food Adulteration (5th
Amendment) Rules, 2008. They shall come into force on the expiry of a period of six months from the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.

Publication Date: 
19/09/2008
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Tags:
Food Adulteration, Food Additives, Prevention of Food Adulteration Act 1954, Pesticides And Toxins, Food Safety, Government Of India (GOI), Ministry Of Health And Family Welfare, India
Biodiversity

Seaweed invader elicits angst in India

An effort in southern India to raise coastal farmers out of poverty by paying them to cultivate red algae for a food additive has gone awry.

Publication Date: 
06/06/2008
Pallava Bagla
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Sea Weeds, Invasive Alien Species, Poverty, Food Additives, Marine Ecosystems, Corals, Gulf Of Mannar Marine NP, PepsiCo, Contract Farming, Farmers, India

 Call for ban on food colours

The uk food watchdog, the Food Standards Agency, has called for a voluntary ban on six artificial colours from food and drink by 2009 saying that the additives have possible side effects on

Publication Date: 
14/05/2008
Down to Earth
Tags:
Food Additives, Health Effects, Child Health, Food Safety
India

 Bytes

real flab: Researchers in the US have found that artificial sweeteners are more fattening than sugar as the consumption of the low-calorie substitutes makes it harder for people to control their

Publication Date: 
14/03/2008
Down to Earth
Tags:
Food Additives, Health Effects, Medical Research, Obesity, Fauna, United States Of America (US), Extinct Species
Health

Sweetener may be worse for dieters than sugar

To lose weight, bin the diet cola. That's the message from studies showing rats got fatter on diets containing artificial sweeteners than on those with sugar.

Publication Date: 
16/02/2008
New Scientist
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Food Additives, Health Effects, Medical Research

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