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Food safety: Need of the hour

June 7, 2021 By Kerean Watts Leave a Comment

An outdoor eatery in Pushkar. The Food Safety and Standards of India will now make it mandatory for food vendors to display food hygiene ratings. Image credit: Pierre-jean DURIEU / 123rf

Narendra Singh Tomar has issued a call for food safety on the occasion of World Food Safety Day. Tomar, the Minister of Agriculture and Minister of Food Processing Industries in the Union Cabinet, highlighted that “the current global pandemic has drawn our attention to issues related to food security such as sanitation, antimicrobial resistance, climate […]

Filed Under: Diet & Nutrition, Featured Stories, Opinion, Social issues Tagged With: climate change, diet, environment, food, food poisoning, food safety, FSSAI, hygiene, infrastructure, malnutrition, nutrition, sanitation, World Food Safety Day

Unsafe food: FSSAI urges crackdown

December 12, 2019 By Kerean Watts Leave a Comment

Healthy food concept. Food poisoning. Trans fats concept. Credit: 123rf

Sounding concerns about the prevalence of unsafe food in the country, the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) is seeking a sharp reduction.  FSSAI chairman Pawan Kumar Aggarwal, speaking at a Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) event, drew attention to “very low” public confidence in Indian foodstuffs. Aggarwal drew attention to a survey […]

Filed Under: Diet & Nutrition, Featured, National, News Tagged With: food, food poisoning, food safety, FSSAI

“Water Aunties”: A boon to rural India?

September 18, 2019 By Nicholas Parry Leave a Comment

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Water in India’s rural locations is often a risky business. Could “water aunties” be a solution? In areas where sewage systems are either non-existent, dysfunctional or in a state of disrepair, open defecation is still common. Water is often sourced from groundwater supplies and contamination is simply a fact of life. Outbreaks of diseases such […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Sanitation, Social issues Tagged With: Cholera, environment, food poisoning, infectious diseases, Malaria, water

A major step towards food safety in India

September 7, 2019 By Kerean Watts Leave a Comment

An outdoor eatery in Pushkar. The Food Safety and Standards of India will now make it mandatory for food vendors to display food hygiene ratings. Image credit: Pierre-jean DURIEU / 123rf

The country’s apex food regulator is taking a major step towards improving food safety and hygiene standards in India.  As the Centre launches a large-scale campaign to promote healthy eating in India, it has been announced that 1.7 lakh inspectors have been trained by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) over a […]

Filed Under: Diet & Nutrition, Featured Stories, Infectious diseases, National, News, Social issues Tagged With: food, food poisoning, infectious diseases

Toxic vegetables being sold in Delhi: Study

July 29, 2019 By Vertika Kanaujia 1 Comment

Vegetables being sold at an outdoor market. Image credit: Rafal Cichawa / 123rf

Beware! Chances are high that the vegetables you are eating in the national capital contain high levels of lead.  According to a study conducted by the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), vegetables grown on the Yamuna floodplains contain high doses of lead, leading to high risk to the public. Prolonged consumption of such toxic […]

Filed Under: Diet & Nutrition, Featured Stories, National, News, Social issues Tagged With: Delhi, food, food poisoning, Pollution

Food delivery: Punjab notifies hygiene standards

June 1, 2019 By Kerean Watts Leave a Comment

The luxury of ordering food online is one Punjab is looking to make safer with new guidelines aimed at food delivery services. Delivery companies including Swiggy, Uber Eats and Zomato are required to display the hygiene ratings of eateries they are associated with as a prerequisite for delivering food from them. “The onus of ensuring […]

Filed Under: Diet & Nutrition, Featured, Featured Stories, Government policy, National, News, Science and Technology, Social issues Tagged With: food, food poisoning, Punjab

More to food poisoning in Karnataka than first met the eye

December 22, 2018 By Kerean Watts Leave a Comment

Healthy food concept. Food poisoning. Trans fats concept. Credit: 123rf

Authorities have said the deadly mass poisoning of food at a temple in Karnataka last week was not the result of a lapse in sanitation. Rather, it was the result of something much more sinister. Police in the Chamarajanagar district of Karnataka have booked four people on suspicion of deliberately poisoning prasada offered to worshippers […]

Filed Under: Diet & Nutrition, National, News Tagged With: food poisoning, Karnataka, law

Food poisoning in Karnataka highlights a national problem

December 17, 2018 By Kerean Watts Leave a Comment

Healthy food concept. Food poisoning. Trans fats concept. Credit: 123rf

An incident at a temple in Karnataka has spotlighted one of India’s major public health issues when it comes to infectious disease: food poisoning. More than 130 worshippers at a temple in the Chamarajanagar district became sick after eating food offered during the service. Eleven people died and eight are in critical condition at the […]

Filed Under: Diet & Nutrition, Featured Stories, National, News, Sanitation, Social issues Tagged With: food poisoning, infectious diseases, Karnataka, news, outbreaks, sanitation, schools

Food poisoning in schools: lapses in sanitation

August 26, 2018 By Nicholas Parry Leave a Comment

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An outbreak of food poisoning in a Mumbai school has brought the dangers of the condition to the public’s attention. The incident involved sixteen private school children and a teacher in Sahyadri Vidya Mandir in suburban Bhandup. They were were admitted to hospital in Mulund and placed under observation for 24 hours. This is not […]

Filed Under: Diet & Nutrition, Featured, Infectious diseases, National, News Tagged With: food poisoning, sanitation, schools

Food poisoning is the second most common infectious outbreak in India

March 27, 2018 By Nicholas Parry Leave a Comment

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Food poisoning was the second most common cause of infectious disease outbreak in India in 2017. The IDSP says milk has been found to be one of the most common contaminated products in these cases. Out of 1,649 disease outbreaks reported till December 3 last year, 242 were due to food poisoning, according to data […]

Filed Under: Diet & Nutrition, Featured, Government policy, Infectious diseases, Medicine and Research, National, Social issues Tagged With: food poisoning, outbreaks

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