Health

FSSAI to play tough with direct selling companies

After packaged food industry and street food vendors, the food safety regulator is set to tighten the noose around direct selling companies and agents.

Publication Date: 
19/01/2017
Sushmi Dey
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Food Safety, Food Safety And Standards Authority Of India (FSSAI), Food Process Industry, Health
Agriculture

Reshaping agriculture and nutrition linkages for food and nutrition security

Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR) Sponsored Short Course on Reshaping Agriculture and Nutrition Linkages for Food and Nutrition Security is being organized at ICAR - Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture (ICAR - CRIDA), Hyderabad during 17-26, November 2016.

Publication Date: 
01/12/2016
K Sreedevi Shankar, R Nagarjuna Kumar, Pushpanjali, & et al
ICAR-Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture
Tags:
Agriculture, Food Security, Nutrition, Climate Change, Food Crops, India, Health, Carbon Dioxide, Heavy Metals, Food Process Industry, Plant Breeding, Legumes
Industry

Firms such as Kellogg's, Unilever and Nestlé 'use child-labour palm oil'

Global firms behind popular brands such as Kit Kat, Colgate toothpaste and Dove cosmetics use palm oil produced by child workers in dangerous conditions, Amnesty International has claimed.

Publication Date: 
30/11/2016
Guardian (UK)
Tags:
Industry, Child Labour, Labour, Palm Oil, Indonesia, Food Process Industry
Health

FSSAI launches Rs 482 cr scheme to upgrade food testing labs

NEW DELHI: Food safety regulator FSSAI today announced a Rs 482-crore scheme to strengthen the food testing infrastructure in the country.

Publication Date: 
04/11/2016
Economic Times (New Delhi)
Tags:
Food Safety, Food Safety And Standards Authority Of India (FSSAI), Food Process Industry, Health
Health

The influence of brand equity characters on children's food preferences and choices

The objective of the study was to assess the influence of brand equity characters displayed on food packaging on children’s food preferences and choices, 2 studies were conducted. Brand equity characters are developed specifically to represent a particular brand or product. Despite existing literature suggesting that promotional characters influence children’s food choices, to date, no research has assessed the influence of brand equity characters specifically.

Original Source

Publication Date: 
20/10/2016
Lauren Sophie McGale, Jason Christian Grovenor Halford, Joanne Alison Harrold & et al
Journal of Pediatrics
33-38
Tags:
Child Health, Advertising, Food Process Industry, Health Effects, United Kingdom (UK), Non Communicable Diseases, TV, Obesity
Health

Tracking hygiene: FSSAI steps up compliance check

Controversies such as the temporary ban on Nestle’s Maggi instant noodles appear to have had a bearing on the hospitality sector, with the food regulator stepping up inspections of hotels and resta

Publication Date: 
19/10/2016
Economic Times (New Delhi)
Tags:
Food Safety, Food Process Industry, Food Safety And Standards Authority Of India (FSSAI), Health
Food Policy

New food norms to open up value-added market

According to the draft guidelines, 850-1,100 parts per million iron can now be added to salt to hike level of micronutrients

Publication Date: 
13/10/2016
Viveat Susan Pinto
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
Food Policy, Regulations, Food Safety And Standards Authority Of India (FSSAI), Food Safety, Food Process Industry
Agriculture

Agribusiness in South Asia

Agribusiness (including agriculture) accounts for almost one third of South Asia’s GDP and has the potential to almost double over the next fifteen years (reaching US$1.5 trillion by 2030).

Publication Date: 
01/10/2016
Soujanya Chodavarapu, Asa Giertz, Peter Jaeger
The World Bank
Tags:
Agriculture, Agro-Based Industry, Food Process Industry, South Asia, India, Trade, Farmers, Livestock, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Food Safety
Water Pollution

OSPCB tightens noose around bakeries

The Odisha State Pollution Control Board (OSPCB) has decided to turn the heat on bakery units, which are allegedly causing water pollution in the city.

Publication Date: 
23/09/2016
Riyan Ramanath V
Times Of India (Bhubaneswar)
Tags:
Orissa (Odisha), Industrial Pollution, Water Pollution, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD), Food Process Industry
Climate Change

Fast food chains largest contribtors of carbon emissions: Study

NEW DELHI: Rapidly growing multinational fast food chains in India are the largest contributors to hydrofluorocarbons (HFC) emissions and could add the equivalent of nearly one million tonnes of ca

Publication Date: 
19/09/2016
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Fast Foods, Carbon Dioxide, Hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs), Food Process Industry, Global Warming, Green House Gases, Climate Change

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