A student who fell ill at the school undergoes treatment at a Ranchi hospital. Picture by Prashant Mitra

Ranchi, Nov. 13: At least five boys have died after consuming milk and snacks in a government-run residential school in Jharkhand, the tragedy unfolding on the eve of children

Consumers will soon be able to figure out if a pack of biscuits, chips or juice is high in nutrients and low in fats. Labels of packaged foods must now compulsorily list nutritional facts per 100 gm or 100 ml or per serving.

Colombo Additional Magistrate, Manjula Thilakarathne has ordered Edna Chocolates (Ceylon) Ltd. to stop production, sales, and export of Edna chocolates due to the usage of milk powder contaminated with melamine.

The government has decided to ban procurement, sale and stocking of powdered milk of three Chinese brands

A mobile court realised Tk 95,000 in fines from four factories during an anti-adulteration drive in Tangail town on Thursday for making food items in unhygienic environment.
The mobile court also seized a huge quantity of date-expired and sub-standard vermicelli and flour.

The city government has decided to revamp the existing system of checking the sale and supply of food items, eatables and drinks at hotels, restaurants, shops and other food outlets across the city by bringing changes in the food laws.

At a meeting of the city government

Environment activists demanded on Friday that the government should set up an independent regulatory commission and highly equipped laboratories at national, divisional and district level to control food adulteration.
They also demanded a complaint centre so that the victims of food adulteration can lodge their complaints.
The demands were made at a discussion meeting on

Police seized 60 maunds of adulterated ghee and vegetable oils from a factory near Chittagong University (CU) in the early hours of yesterday.

They also arrested five people in this connection.

The arrestees were identified as Akash, Sagar and Vishnu of Tangail, Shahid of Mymensingh and Rahim of Bhola.

Sources said Hathazari police unearthed the factory housed in a thatched structure at CU Gate No 1 beside Chittagong-Hathazari Road.

In a drive that started at around 2:30am, they seized 13 drums of adulterated ghee and vegetable oils and 7 drums of palm oils from the factory.

Sale of adulterated, stale and substandard foods is rampant in the port city for the last few months in absence of anti-adulteration drive.

Owners of a large number of hotels, restaurants and fast food shops in the city have been selling adulterated foods without any problem to the consumers since December last year after the much-talked-about anti-adulteration drive came to a sudden halt following the transfer of Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) Magistrate Mohammad Munir Chowdhury to Bogra.