Chocolate caution!

Malaysia

Tainted meat

Who killed them?

Bird deaths in the Okhla Bird Sanctuary raise questions

According to report

Spraying poison

Despite a government ban on use of some common pesticides in agriculture, our food continues to be contaminated. The there-is-no-alternative …

Pesticide-rich food

Agriculture department confirms high pesticide residues

पंजाब-हरियाणा से एमएसपी पर खरीद बंद करने की सिफारिश, किसानों को बोनस न दें राज्य

कृषि लागत और मूल्य आयोग ने सिफारिश की है कि अनाज गोदामों में स्टॉक को कम करने के लिए सरकारी खरीद कम की जाए ...

South Korea commits $20 million to ending world hunger

Agreement with UN World Food Programme marks South Korea’s transition from recipient to donor

Books in cyberspace

Online Library>> Education • Brazil

Difficult to digest

After much debate, the Cabinet cleared the food security bill. Will it really ensure food for every Indian?

Is it safe?

Today every European and some Asians are asking themselves: How safe is the food we eat?

Not just water

Mineral or drinking water? Government sets new standards to reorganise the bottled water industry

Confessions of a fast food junkie

Book>> Stuffed and Starved by Raj Patel Harper Collins Delhi 2008

US not keen to trade freely

Bring farmers to farms

‘Pesticides, antibiotic use and ultra-processing threaten food safety in India’

Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment says that in addition to microbiological and chemical contamination, factors like salt, sugar and …

Model in a fix

Chhattisgarh's much appreciated public distribution scheme is falling apart due to corruption and mismanagement

Eat at your own risk

Junk food is bad for health. Its definition tells its inner story—food that is high on calories and saturated fat but low on nutrition. 

Junk food in schools: high court asks FSSAI to frame rules

Food standards authority says it has invited proposals for developing guidelines for making available quality food in school canteens

The China affair what it means to us

Crisis brewing

Collapse of the former Soviet market and an indifferent attitude to quality clips Nilgiris tea industry

Moscow introduces GM-free label

Pro-industry food safety and standards bill does not address safety concerns

"We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun." -- George Orwell in his 1937 novel The Road …

ICDS gets packaged food for the malnourished