Health

Your multivitamins have no health benefits, says study!

We all take multivitamins to provide our body with additional nutrients other than the meager quantity we get from our adulterated foods.

Publication Date: 
30/05/2018
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Nutrition, Food Adulteration, Minerals, Heart Diseases, Health Effects, Health
Health

Draft Food Safety and Standards (Food Products Standards and Food Additives) Amendment Regulations, 2018 related to standards of Milk Protein Concentrate, Whey Protein Concentrate and Colostrum and Colostrum Products

The FSSAI has notified these draft regulations in course to amend the principal regulations i.e.

Publication Date: 
26/02/2018
Food Safety And Standards Authority Of India (FSSAI)
Tags:
Food Adulteration, Food Safety, Food Standards, Milk Products, India, Food Safety And Standards Authority Of India (FSSAI), Food Additives
Governance And Institutions

The consumer protection bill, 2018

This new bill introduced in the Lok Sabha includes provision for fine and imprisonment for adulteration of products, compounding of offences and establishment of the Central Consumer Protection Authority. Celebrities endorsing misleading ads will have to pay penalty of up to Rs 50 lakh and serve a ban of up to three years says this which replaces replaces the Consumer Protection Act 1986.

Publication Date: 
05/01/2018
Lok Sabha
Tags:
Consumer Act 1986, Food Adulteration, Food Safety, India, Parliament, Advertising
Health

Question raised in Lok Sabha on Adulteration in Food Items, 22/12/2017

Question raised in Lok Sabha on Adulteration in Food Items, 22/12/2017. Cases of adulteration, including use of harmful chemicals in food items, do come to the notice of Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) from time to time. The Food Safety Officers in the States/UTs take food samples on regular basis and send them for analysis in the food laboratories to check the compliance of the provisions of Food Safety

Publication Date: 
Friday, December 22, 2017
Lok Sabha
Tags:
Food Adulteration, Food Safety and Standards Act 2006, India, Statistics, Parliament
Health

Question raised in Lok Sabha on Cases of Milk Adulteration, 15/12/2017

Question raised in Cases of Milk Adulteration, 15/12/2017. As per information received from the States/UTs by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) regarding cases of milk adulteration registered in the Country and action taken against the defaulters during last three years i.e. 2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17 are at Annexure-I, Annexure-II and Annexure-III respectively.

Publication Date: 
Friday, December 15, 2017
Lok Sabha
Tags:
Milk, Food Adulteration, India, Statistics, Parliament
Health

Food safety body, NADA join hands to check doping substances, adulterants in sports nutrition products

The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has signed a MoU with National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) to focus on collaborative efforts to address the issues of doping substances and ot

Publication Date: 
15/09/2017
Business Line (New Delhi)
Tags:
Food Safety, Ministry Of Health And Family Welfare, Food Safety And Standards Authority Of India (FSSAI), Food Adulteration, Health Effects, Health
Health

Draft Food Safety and Standards (Food Products Standards and Food Additives) Amendment Regulation 2017 regarding inclusion of fatty acid composition for various edible vegetables oils

The draft FSS (Food Product Standards and Food Additives) Amendment Regulation, 2017, incorporates in the standards for edible oils, their fatty acid compositions , thereby paving the way for determination of the authenticity of the edible oils.

Publication Date: 
19/06/2017
Food Safety And Standards Authority Of India (FSSAI)
Tags:
Edible Oils, Food Safety, Food Standards, Food Safety And Standards Authority Of India (FSSAI), India, Health Effects, Food Adulteration
Health

Formalin crime in Bangladesh: A case study

Abuses of formalin in foods have become a great concern due to grim health hazard. The aim of this study was to shed light on formalin crime and also the situational analysis of food adulteration in Bangladesh. The primary objective of this paper is highlighting the response of formalin users, community and government about the abuse of formalin in Bangladesh. The secondary objective of this paper is drawing successful strategies to make adulteration free food on the basis of the existing laws and strategies to curb the threading perils arranging healthy and safe life.

Publication Date: 
21/11/2016
Md. Kamruzzaman
European Journal of Clinical and Biomedical Sciences
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5
39-44
Tags:
Food Adulteration, Health Effects, Bangladesh, Fish, Food Preservation, South Asia, Toxins
Health

Judgement of the Supreme Court of India regarding growing sales of adulterated and synthetic milk in India, 05/08/2016

Judgement of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Swami Achyutanand Tirth & Others Vs Union of India & Others dated 05/08/2016 regarding growing sales of adulterated and synthetic milk in different parts of the country. The petitioners are residents of the State of Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Haryana and NCT of Delhi and have accordingly shown concern towards the sale of adulterated milk in their States.

Judgement Date: 
05/08/2016
Tags:
Milk, Food Adulteration, Supreme Court, Health Effects, Public Interest Litigation (PIL), Food Safety And Standards Authority Of India (FSSAI)
Health

Question raised in Lok Sabha on Food Adulteration, 29/07/2016

Question raised in Lok Sabha on Food Adulteration, 29/07/2016. Some cases of adulteration in food items have come to the notice of the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI). As per the information made available by State/UT Governments to FSSAI, the state-wise details of samples of food articles collected, tested, found not conforming to the prescribed standards and action taken during last three years, are at Annexure-I, II & III.

Publication Date: 
Friday, July 29, 2016
Lok Sabha
Tags:
Food Adulteration, Food Standards, Food Safety And Standards Authority Of India (FSSAI), India, Statistics, Parliament

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