Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, minister of state for food processing industries, inaugurated Sikaria Mega Food Park Pvt Ltd at Village Tulakona in Agartala on Wednesday. This is the first mega food park in Tripura. The inauguration took place in the presence of state chief minister Biplab Kumar Deb.
The mega food park has been set up […]
CIFTI-FICCI and Food Industry Asia will jointly host a seminar on Sweeteners- Innovative Ingredients for a Better Health in Bengaluru on March 14, 2019.
According to the organisers, consumers are concerned about the consumption of the sugar. Sugar has overtaken fat as the latest food villain, and brands are taking consumers’ growing concerns about sugar […]
The India Section of the AOAC INTERNATIONAL is pleased to announce its 6th annual conference scheduled during Feb 28th to March 01, 2019 at The Park Hotel, New Delhi.
CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT
6th Annual Conference of the India Section of the AOAC INTERNATIONAL
Towards Collaborative Leadership to Ensure Food Safety
Date: February 28 – March 1, 2019
Location: Hotel “The Parkâ€, New Delhi
For registrations, please visit here
Food regulator FSSAI will launch “rigorous” inspections on food companies to ensure that best standards are followed as part of its effort to build trust among people about the safety and quality of cooked or packaged products, its CEO Pawan Kumar Agarwal said Thursday. The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) will […]
Food businesses in India will not be able to use words or phrases such as natural, fresh, original, traditional, authentic, genuine and real on food labels except under specific conditions detailed as per a notification issued by FSSAI.
The regulations — Food Safety and Standards (Advertising and Claims) Regulations, 2018, — will pertain to claims […]
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has launched Heart Attack Rewind, a mass media campaign calling for the elimination of industrially-produced trans fat in the food supply.
The 30-second public service announcement (PSA) – the first mass media campaign of its kind – will support FSSAI’s global target of eliminating trans fat […]
Technology on farms is possible only with innovation and policy support in India. The country is witnessing uberisation on farms, with miniaturisation of equipment to sow and irrigate agricultural lands.
This was stated by Ashok Gulati, Indian agricultural economist and former chairman, Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP) at the Bangalore Technology Summit, where […]
As a result of the various schemes operationalised by the Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MoFPI), Government of India, food processing and preservation capacities have increased by 351 per cent, cold chain and cold storage capacities have gone up by 720 per cent, five lakh jobs have been created and infrastructure has been created […]
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), in a recent development, has gazette notified the regulation on laboratories, giving a structure to the food lab ecosystem in the country by detailing out recognition and notification of laboratories. Eventually, the new norms will help improve quality of food testing.
The comprehensive regulations will replace […]
Pomegranate farmers in the state of Maharashtra are facing a serious crunch due to drought impact on over 50 per cent of the plantation. This was stated by Prabhakar Chandane, president, All India Pomegranate Growers’ Federation.
Exports of the fruit to the European Union (EU) commence from December and continue till March, but according to […]