Food Policy

Action plan of food safety and quality year 2008-09

Food safety is a growing concern across the world. There is an increasing need to provide greater assurance about the safety and quality of food to consumers. Food standards are expected to acquire greater importance, given increasing concerns on food safety on the one hand, and growing consumer demand for products which are healthy on the other.

Publication Date: 
01/12/2008
Goutam Sanyal
Ministry of Food Processing Industries
Tags:
Food Supply, Food Standards, Pesticides And Toxins, Food Safety, India
Pesticides And Toxins

Complete solutions for pesticide residue analysis in foods

Pesticides are widely used in many areas of modern agriculture as they are considered economically important for high yield production. In today

Publication Date: 
01/12/2008
Varian
Tags:
Pesticides, Food Standards, Pesticides And Toxins, Pesticide Residues, Food Safety, Research
Pesticides And Toxins

Fast screening for pesticides in fruits and vegetables by gas chromatography

Identifying and quantifying pesticides in fruits and vegetables is important for public health and safety reasons. As sample loads increase, analysts look for ways to enhance the speed of sample preparation and analysis while maintaining high data quality. The United States Department of Agriculture has

Publication Date: 
01/12/2008
LECO Corporation
Tags:
Pesticides, Vegetables, Food Standards, Health, Pesticides And Toxins, Pesticide Residues, Food Safety, United States Of America (US)
Pesticides And Toxins

Pesticides Amendment (Notification of Proposed Use) Regulation 2008

This Regulation is the Pesticides Amendment (Notification of Proposed Use) Regulation 2008.

Publication Date: 
01/11/2008
New South Wales Government
Tags:
Pesticides, Food Standards, Pesticides And Toxins, Pesticide Use, Pesticide Regulation, Maximum Residue Level (MRL), Australia
Health

Technical capacity, policymaking and food standards: An overview of Indian experience

The SPS Agreement in the WTO gives legal validity to the CODEX standards. Since the developed countries have been at the forefront of setting the food standards in the CODEX, the developing countries have been increasingly engaged in the CODEX, and also in the WTO, with an objective to increase their exports of the agricultural and food products.

Publication Date: 
01/11/2008
Nupur Chowdhury, Sanjay Kumar
Asian Biotechnology and Development Review
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Tags:
Food Standards, Trade, WTO, Health, Food Safety, CODEX, India, Developing Countries
Health

Technical capacity, policymaking and food standards: An overview of Indian experience

The SPS Agreement in the WTO gives legal validity to the CODEX standards. Since the developed countries have been at the forefront of setting the food standards in the CODEX, the developing countries have been increasingly engaged in the CODEX, and also in the WTO, with an objective to increase their exports of the agricultural and food products.

Publication Date: 
01/11/2008
Nupur Chowdhury, Sanjay Kumar
Asian Biotechnology and Development Review
11
1
57
Tags:
Food Standards, Trade, WTO, Health, Food Safety, CODEX, India, Developing Countries
Health

Melamine contamination: HC asks govt to ban 8 milk powder brands

In a latest development the High Court yesterday ordered the government to ban display and sale of eight foreign milk powder brands, which were found contaminated with melamine in a Dhaka University laboratory test.

Publication Date: 
24/10/2008
New Nation (Bangladesh)
Tags:
Milk, Food Standards, Health Effects, High Court, Bangladesh
Food Policy

Samples of 8 brands sent to FAO for further test

Samples of powdered milk of eight brands that had tested positive for melamine contamination were handed over to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) yesterday for further testing.

Publication Date: 
22/10/2008
Daily Star (Bangladesh)
Tags:
Food Standards, FAO, Bangladesh
Health

Five milk brands given clean bill

Authorities said yesterday that the samples of five popular milk powder brands which came under the microscope in Singapore for possible contamination of melamine had come clean.

Publication Date: 
17/10/2008
Daily News (Sri Lanka)
Tags:
Food Standards, Health, Sri Lanka
Health

Mobile labs to test water, food quality

Hyderabad, Oct. 6: With instances of infectious and water-borne diseases rising in the state, the century-old Institute of Preventive Medicine (IPM) at Narayanguda here is planning to launch a new project with 14 mobile laboratories to provide diagnostic services at the doorsteps. These mobile labs will monitor water quality, test food for toxicity and diagnose diseases.

Publication Date: 
07/10/2008
Deccan Chronicle (Hyderabad)
Tags:
Food Standards, Water Quality, Waterborne diseases, Health Care, Andhra Pradesh

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