Food Standards

USEPA s ethical faux pas

Industry tests using human beings would now be accepted by the us Environmental Protection Agency (epa) in fixing standards for chemicals in food and water. The agency is about to finish

Publication Date:

30/12/2004

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

13

Issue:

20041231

pp:

0

Tags:

Food Standards, Pesticide Industry, United States Of America (US)

India

The verdict is out

Consumer rights receive a fizzy fillip

Publication Date:

30/12/2004

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

13

Issue:

20041231

pp:

0

Tags:

Food Standards, Pesticide Residues, Legislation, Supreme Court, India

Health

Detection of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in commonly consumed edible oils and their likely intake in the Indian population

Edible oils such as coconut, groundnut, hydrogenated vegetable, linseed, mustard, olive, palm, refined vegetable, rice bran, safflower, sesame, soybean, and sunflower were analyzed for the presence of light and heavy polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) residues using liquid-liquid extraction, cleanup on a silica gel column, and resolution and determination by HPLC using a fluorescence detector. Ten PAH viz. acenaphthene, anthracene, benzo(a)pyrene, benzo(e)pyrene, benz(ghi)perylene, chrysene, coronene, cyclopenta(def)phenanthrene, phenanthrene, and pyrene were monitored.

Publication Date:

01/12/2004

Author(s): Manoj K. Pandey, Krishn K. Mishra, Subhash K. Khanna & et al

Source: Journal of the American Oil Chemists Society

Vol:

81

Issue:

12

pp:

1131-1136

Tags:

Edible Oils, Health Effects, India, Research, Food Standards, Food Contamination

Food Policy

The prevention of food adulteration act & rules (as on 1.10.2004)

An Act to make provision for prevention of adulteration of the food. This Act may be called the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954. It extends to the whole of India. It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.

Publication Date:

01/10/2004

Source: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

Tags:

Pesticides, Food Standards, Food Adulteration, Food Additives, Prevention of Food Adulteration Act 1954, Pesticides And Toxins, Legislation, India

Environment

Consuming trends

Is It Really Safe?

Publication Date:

14/06/2004

Author(s): Nidhi Jamwal

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Food Standards, Food Process Industry, Health Effects

India

Governments should try for 100 per cent pure water

HANS JEURING is the chairperson of Codex Committee on Pesticides Residue CCPR . It is responsible for establishing maximum limits for pesticide residues in food commodities, and comes under the Codex Alimentarius Commission CAC a UN body that sets fo

Publication Date:

30/05/2004

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

13

Issue:

20040531

pp:

0

Tags:

Food Standards, Food Contamination, Health Effects, Pesticide Residues, Developing Countries, European Union (EU)

India

Pests behind Codex standards

Swearing by them is nothing more than laziness and deception of regulators

Publication Date:

30/05/2004

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

13

Issue:

20040531

pp:

0

Tags:

Pesticides, Food Standards, Pesticide Industry, Pesticide Residues, WHO

Agriculture

Ideal edibles

New Zealand dishes out safe food

Publication Date:

30/05/2004

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

13

Issue:

20040531

pp:

0

Tags:

Pesticides, Food Standards, New Zealand

India

In sync

The seven members of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (saarc) unanimously decided to harmonise their food norms by 2007, at a recent meeting in Kathmandu. Those members not

Publication Date:

14/05/2004

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

12

Issue:

20040515

pp:

0

Tags:

Food Standards, SAARC, Kathmandu

India