Health supplements cannot be sold as ‘medicines’ any more, with food safety watchdog as FSSAIÂ announced new standards for manufacturers of these products to check mis-labelling.
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has operationalised with immediate effect new standards for eight categories of products, including health supplements and nutraceuticals.
FSSAI will now start granting […]
Food Contact Materials migration testing involves overall and specific migration testing on food packaging, kitchen utensils & food processing machinery
Food packaging is primarily intended to protect the food contained in the packaging from temperature and atmospheric changes, oxygen, dust and moisture, as well as increase its shelf life, or the maximum length of time […]
Mumbai, Nov 16 (PTI) The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) today said it is in the process of setting up a food safety standards review panel to identify gaps in the existing standards for safe and nutritious food against international standards.
“FSSAI has formulated a three-pronged strategy for ensuring safe and nutritious […]
For centuries, ingredients have served useful functions in a variety of foods. Our ancestors used salt to preserve meats and fish, added herbs and spices to improve the flavor of foods, preserved fruit with sugar, and pickled cucumbers in a vinegar solution. Today, consumers demand and enjoy a food supply that is flavorful, nutritious, […]
The Food Safety & Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) is likely to come up with fortification standards for packaged food products such as cereals and biscuits. Fortification means deliberately increasing the content of essential micronutrients such as iron, Vitamin A, Vitamin D, Iodine, etc, in a food product so as to improve its nutritional […]
Food Safety and Standards Authority in India has finally operationalised standards for caffeinated beverages and allowed use of ‘blue tint’ in plastic container of five litre and above for packaging of mineral water.
Look what new standards says:
Water used in preparation of caffeinated beverages should conform to the standards of packaged drinking water
Water should […]
 Are all delicious and very special Tirupati laddus safe?
It has come under scanner as FSSAI (Food Safety and Standards Authority of India) has asked the Commissioner of Food Safety, Andhra Pradesh, to investigate into certification and alleged violation of food safety norms by TTD in making of laddus following a petition by a city-based […]