The Union ministry of health and family welfare is collecting data from scientists and research institutions on ill-effects of soft drinks and other carbonated beverages. This exercise, the first of its kind, has been taken up by the ministry in the backdrop of research reports by various laboratories that consumption of soft drinks is not good for the health of people.

Of the many issues that will be discussed at the 61st World Health Assembly in Geneva this month, prevention and control of non-communicable diseases is what the food industry will be following closely. Its future, and growth plan, will depend on the outcome of the deliberations in Geneva.

The government of South Australia is planning to ban junk food advertising in children's viewing times. The province's Health Minister John Hill says the government will implement a voluntary ban

The report: "Independent, Third Party Assessment of Coca-Cola Facilities in India' By: The Energy and Resource Institute, Delhi Tested plants: Kaladera (Rajasthan), Nemam (Tamil Nadu),

Consumer rights groups in the country have come out against surreptitious advertising by cola companies. Sixty such organizations have come together to constitute the Indian chapter of the Global

In November last year, Brazil's National Health Monitoring Agency launched a public debate on regulations that would ban radio and tv advertising for soft drinks and foods with sugar, saturated fat

Kerala's Cola rift A division bench of the Kerala High Court recently allowed Pepsico to begin operations in its plant in Puthussery village panhayat in Kerala's Palakkad district. In 2004, the

Coca-cola booted Students of the University of Guelph in Canada, have voted to remove Coca-Cola products from their campus because of the company's unethical practices in India and Colombia. As

On February 15, 2007, the Supreme Court refused to grant interim relief to the Kerala government, which had challenged a high court order quashing a ban on the sale of cola products in the state. A

In a year of remixes, I the cola controversy I was a tune that stayed true to its original from three years ago. In August, the Delhi-based Centre for Science and