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International Year of Millets (IYOM) 2023 provides an opportunity to increase global production, efficient processing and better use of crop rotation and promote millets as a major component of the food basket

FSSAI Specifies Comprehensive Standard Of Millets

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Millets are a group of small-grained cereal food crops that are highly tolerant to drought and other extreme weather conditions and require low chemical inputs such as fertilisers and pesticides

FSSAI Notifies Regulatory Standards For Basmati Rice

The standards are aimed at establishing fair practices in the trade of Basmati rice and protect consumer interest, both domestically and globally

FSSAI Issues New Regulations To Curb Fake Vegan Foods

The FSSAI regulations stated that the Food Business Operator should ensure that all stages of production, processing and distribution

FSSAI Tells Online Food Portals To Adhere To Nutritional Value On Display

In a letter to all e-commerce Food Business Operators (FBOs), FSSAI has asked them to make provisions in their platforms, including mobile apps, for display of calorific value and information related to nutrition and allergen. This would enable FBOs to feed the data on online platforms

Food To Be Labelled As Veg Or Non-veg Irrespective Of Amount Of Ingredient Used: Delhi HC Told

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It is clarified that the declaration regarding Non-Veg. or Veg. Food is mandatory irrespective of the percentage of any ingredient in the food, the FSSAI said

FSSAI Opens 3rd National Food Lab At JNPT

NFL JNPT has come up in a PPP mode with the set-up, operate and transfer (SOT) model. Vimta Labs Ltd will be the PPP partner responsible for operating the NFL at JNPT.

Only 3 % Of Packaged Food Item Samples Contain Over 2 % Trans Fat: FSSAI Survey

To assess the market situation, the regulator said that it has carried out a baseline survey for presence of industrially produced trans-fatty acid content in the selected food categories

FSSAI Asks E-Tailers To Delist Non-Dairy Products Claiming As Dairy Items

The FSSAI has further directed that no such defaulting products listed on the online platforms are allowed for sale in the future as well.

FSSAI Mulling Using Next-Gen Technology Tools To Ensure Food Safety, Quality

FSSAI has started providing technical and financial assistance to states and union territories by creation of infrastructure and testing equipment for mobilising resources to carry out manual special camps inspections, awareness drives etc

This Ain’t No Milk

Santosh Sreedhar

Opinion Columns

A fight to protect the right to use the terms used in Dairy products may not be worth pursuing, and may not be of any significant benefit for the Vegan industry.

FSSAI Makes Mandatory For Food Businesses To Mention FSSAI Licence No. On Invoice/Bills From Oct 1

FSSAI number is compulsory to be displayed on packaged food labels but the issue lies especially in case of establishments such as restaurants, mithai shops, caterers, even retail stores.

Food Security Must Be Seen As Essential Public Health Component: Harsh Vardhan

PIVA has been calibrated and tested for coconut, sunflower, mustard, palm, rice bran, soyabean, groundnut, olive oil and ghee.

Govt Expects Edible Oil Prices To Cool Off With Release Of Imported Stock