: Growing awareness about the quality and safety of food has resulted in a thriving new industry

A fake soft drink unit that refilled glass bottles of branded soft drinks with a chemical mixed with water and sugar, was busted in northeast Delhi recently. The cops confirm that there may be many more units operating in the city.
So, the next time you are thinking about enjoying a chilled bottle of cola, make sure you pick the right one, as the market is flooded with spurious drinks.

July 22: When this reporter called up a restaurant in West Marredpally and ordered a tandoori chicken without the addition of any colouring, the reply was, Humare paas koi eisha chicken item nahi milta jisme rang nahi hota. Red colour sab mein daltein hain. (We don

Lab To Check Food Adulteration Will Come Up At Navrangpura Within 3 Months
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Ahmedabad: Lead in your chocolate, ammonia in your milk and arsenic in fruits

Tea Board of India (TBI) is all set to introduce an exclusive Assam logo in the line of ISI mark to ensure that only quality Assam CTC tea enter the export market.

The Assam logo would be introduced to put in place stringent quality mechanism system for the export market where Assam tea is facing stiff competition from those produced in Kenya and Sri Lanka.

Ahmedabad: Your tomato soup may be red but chances are there

New Delhi: Waking up to the dangers associated with the prevailing practice of artificial ripening of fruits, the ministry of health & family welfare has shot off letters to state authorities to raise their vigil against the use of carbide gas for ripening fruit.

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NEW DELHI: The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has asked the States and Union Territories to ensure prevention of use of carbide gas for premature ripening of fruits.

Due to increased accessibility to information, growing public awareness and enhancement of the State PFA (Prevention of Food Adulteration Act) enforcement machinery, the sale of sub-standard and adulterated food has come down considerably, but pulses, milk etc., are some of the items that still are most adulterated.

Continuing its raids on illegal ripening of mangoes for the second day on Thursday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorities raided outlets in Ponda and Mapusa and seized 11 tonnes of mangoes.
According to Food and Drug Administration Director Salim Veljee, the FDA officials sealed three godowns in Ponda, two in Upper Bazaar and one at Curti, and one in Mapusa.