The Hotel and Restaurant Association of Western India (HRAWI) was felicitated by FSSAI during the closing ceremony of the Swasth Bharat Yatra in New Delhi. The Association was recognised for its contribution in arranging for refreshments and accommodation for delegates of the country’s apex food regulator and volunteers who cycled through the Western region promoting […]
India, China and Indonesia will be home to three-quarters of the world’s population by 2030. The three countries will be home to half the world’s urban population. And this will have a significant impact on the demand and food production, as urban consumers have more diverse diets and convenience food.
This was stated in a […]
Hundreds of millions of waste produced in India comes from agriculture and agricultural enterprises. According to statistics, 70 per cent of the waste is used in industrial sector and as domestic fuel. The remainder can be converted into bio-components and bio-fuels and can also be used in the generation of energy.
This was stated by […]
Thirty-nine per cent of Indians opined that fruits and vegetables was the category in which adulteration was most rampant.
This was their answer to the first question in LocalCircles’ four-point survey, which informed that 78 per cent of the country’s citizens had faced food adulteration.
The survey was about the category in which they have witnessed […]
India cannot depend on imported food security, but on home-grown food security. This was stated by Venkaiah Naidu, the country’s vice-president, at the National Consultation on Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition, which took place at the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF), Chennai, on Monday.
“Agriculture is our basic culture, and our core philosophy is of […]
FSSAI has collaborated with the National Biodiesel Association to establish a nationwide ecosystem for the collection of used cooking oil and its conversion into bio-diesel, in adherence to the country’s apex food regulator’s directive to monitor the quality of used cooking oil, which came into force recently.
This was stated by Pawan Kumar Agarwal, chief […]
The Institute of Plasma Research (IPR), Gandhinagar, Gujarat, has developed a technology to produce plasma-activated water (PAW) that has the potential to keep fruits and vegetables fresh.
PAW is produced by exposing water to non-thermal air or oxygen plasma. Sharing the details on it, S K Nema, who was involved in the research, explained, “Air […]
The consumption of Chakti, Africa’s maiden biofortified variant of pearl millet, may improve the nutritional status of women and children in the region, where anaemia is a significant public health concern. This scientific breakthrough is thanks to plant breeders at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) under the work of […]
PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry has urged the government to promote and propagate genetically-modified (GM) foods to enable India catapult its agricultural and horticultural economies, stating that eventually with GM food applications, India could be one of the largest exporters of its agricultural produce.
The Chamber also appealed to the government emphasising that the […]
The food package, whether it is the primary or secondary package, serves a number of roles: It protects the food, provides the consumer with information, helps market the food, warns customers of potential dangers (such as from allergens), provides a container for transport, allows the product to be tracked and traced, and can even […]
