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FSSAI's scientific panel reconstituted
Issue Date: Jun 14, 2011
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has reconstituted its scientific panel and brought independent scientists and experts in its fold. The reconstitution was done after the Supreme Court reprimanded FSSAI, in February this year, for inducting members from the food industry in the panel, defeating it's very purpose of regulating the food industry. Of the eight scientific panels, seven had 18 members from big food businesses.
Free food body of corporate influence
Issue Date: Mar 15, 2011
THE Supreme Court has directed the food regulatory body to reconstitute its scientific panels. The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) had inducted members from the food industry, defeating its purpose of regulating that very industry.
The M in IMA
Issue Date: May 31, 2008
recently, the Indian Medical Association (ima) earned the dubious distinction of being the first association of medical professionals in the world to endorse a food brand. And that too of a company best known for its brands of non-nutritive and unsafe carbonated beverages. Going by the law of the land, this endorsement is illegal. The Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954 clearly makes it illegal to label foods as wothy of being recommended by the medical profession.
IMA to endorse PepsiCo's food products
@vibhavarshney Issue Date: May 31, 2008
the Indian Medical Association (ima) will now endorse PepsiCos Tropicana fruit juices and its breakfast cereal Quaker Oatsthe first time in the world that a medical association will endorse a food product. Terming it a partnership for health, the associations secretary-general, S N Misra, said although the company had not paid money for the endorsement, PepsiCo may sponsor the associations conferences and meetings for three years, the agreement period.
The pesticide is the point
Issue Date: Aug 15, 2003
In February, we released a study on pesticide residues in bottled water being sold in the market. We reported how we found legalised pesticides in bottled water. In other words, the norms for regulating pesticide levels in these bottles were so designed that pesticide residues would not be detected.
