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Hepatitis B, C pose huge health challenge in India: Experts

Despite the cost of drugs coming down and dramatic advances in the treatment of Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C, getting rid of both types of the disease remains a huge challenge primarily due to lack

Publication Date: 
28/07/2016
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Hepatitis, India, Waterborne diseases, Food Safety, Water Pollution, Health Effects, Health
Health

Draft Food Safety and Standards (Food Products Standards and Food Additives) Amendment Regulation, 2016

The following draft of certain regulations further to amend the Food Safety and Standards (Food Products Standards and Food Additives) Regulations, 2011, which the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India proposes to make with previous approval of the Central Government in exercise of the powers conferred by clause (e) of sub-section (2) of

Publication Date: 
26/07/2016
Food Safety And Standards Authority Of India (FSSAI)
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Food Additives, Food Safety, Food Standards, India, Food Safety And Standards Authority Of India (FSSAI)
Health

Packaged foods exceed salt limit, poses risk to health: Study

Foods like papads, meal-based sauces, Asian sauces, pickles, bread and bakery products were found to have high levels of salt.

Publication Date: 
26/07/2016
Deccan Chronicle (Telangana)
Tags:
Telangana, Food Safety, Salt, WHO, Nutrition, Health Effects, Hypertension (Blood Pressure), Health
Health

Regulator to ensure quality prasad at shrines

Ever thought about the quality of food your revered shrine is serving? Well, the country’s apex food regulator is thinking about that on your behalf.

Publication Date: 
25/07/2016
Aditi Tandon
Tribune (New Delhi)
Tags:
Food Safety, Religious Beliefs, Food Safety And Standards Authority Of India (FSSAI), Religious Places, Supreme Court, Health
Health

Health could soon become a fundamental right

NEW DELHI: Health may soon be declared a fundamental right of every individual, similar to education, if the draft National Health Policy proposed by the ministry goes through.

Publication Date: 
25/07/2016
Sushmi Dey
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Health Policy, Drugs, Food Safety, Health Care, Health
Health

Question raised in Lok Sabha on Norms of Food Safety, 22/07/2016

Question raised in Lok Sabha on Norms of Food Safety, 22/07/2016. Standards for articles of food prescribed under the Food Safety (FSS) Act, 2006 and regulations thereunder, are primarily enforced by the Food Safety Departments of the States/Union Territories. Random sampling and testing of food products, etc.

Publication Date: 
22/07/2016
Lok Sabha
Tags:
Food Safety, Food Safety and Standards Act 2006, India, Parliament, Food Standards
Health

Question raised in Lok Sabha on Food Adulteration, 22/07/2016

Question raised in Lok Sabha on Food Adulteration, 22/07/2016.As per the information made available by State/UT Governments to the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (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 22, 2016
Lok Sabha
Tags:
Food Adulteration, Food Safety, Food Safety And Standards Authority Of India (FSSAI), India, Statistics, Parliament
Health

Question raised in Lok Sabha on Potassium Bromate in Breads, 22/07/2016

Question raised in Lok Sabha on Potassium Bromate in Breads, 22/07/2016. The Government is aware of the study by the Centre for Science and Environment. Potassium bromate was earlier permitted to be used as an additive for manufacturing bread and other bakery products under the erstwhile Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954.

Publication Date: 
22/07/2016
Lok Sabha
Tags:
Food Additives, Prevention of Food Adulteration Act 1954, Food Safety, Health Effects, Processed Foods, CSE Study, India, Parliament
Agriculture

People want GMO food labeled — which is pretty much all they know about GMOs

After years of fierce debate involving scientists, food manufacturers, farmers and environmental groups, Congress has passed a bill that would make it mandatory to inform consumers about the GMOs —

Publication Date: 
22/07/2016
Washington Post
Tags:
Agriculture, GMOs, Food Safety, GM Crops, Genetic Engineering, Health, Organic Farming
Health

Question raised in Lok Sabha on Review of Mid Day Meal Scheme, 18/07/2016

Question raised in Lok Sabha on Review of Mid Day Meal Scheme, 18/07/2016. Under Mid Day Meal Scheme, hot cooked meals are provided to 10.03 crore children in 11.50 lakh institutions on every working day of the school. Despite this scale of operations, only 95 complaints of misappropriation/corruption have been received during the last three years. State-wise number of such complaints is annexed.

Publication Date: 
Monday, July 18, 2016
Lok Sabha
Tags:
Mid-Day Meal Programme, India, Statistics, Child Health, Food Safety, Parliament, Corruption

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