COVID-19: Around 45 mln pushed into global food insecurity, says FAO report

Around 33 million reside in South and South east Asia, remainder in sub-Saharan Africa

Sell stevia, face legal action

Food Standards Authority says natural sweetener not a food item  

"Governments should try for 100 per cent pure water"

HANS JEURING is the chairperson of Codex Committee on Pesticides Residue (CCPR). It is responsible for establishing maximum limits for pesticide …

Rampant food adulteration in Mysore

Fat of the matter

What does 'healthy oil' really mean? It is difficult to tell. The Centre for Science and Environment studied branded edible oils to understand …

Billed to confuse

A new bill leaves little scope for dissent on GMOs

Who controls

How do you like your food, sir?

A fiscal crisis: Why FCI needs provisioning in food subsidy budget

Mounting expenses, under-provisioning of food subsidy budget leading to a huge debt is highly worrisome 

Centre eases quarantine norms for wheat imports

Two-minute wake-up call

Nestle's resistance to the nationwide ban on Maggi noodles shows why the country needs an urgent policy on recall of harmful food products

कोविड-19: अब क्यों जरूरी है खाने की आदतें बदलना

हमें विचार करना चाहिए कि हम जो भोजन करते हैं उसका उत्पादन कैसे होता है। इसका प्रभाव उपभोक्ता के अलावा उत्पादक और पर्यावरण पर ...

High CO2 emissions reducing nutrients in rice, wheat

Wheat and rice grown at atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide levels between 546-586 parts per million reduced their protein, zinc, iron …

'FSSAI’s move to shut down two regional offices will give wrong signal'

FSSAI’s move suggests the central regulator is backing down and is not in full control of food safety regulatory enforcement, says Delhi-…

Fast foods

Metals for food

Depleting groundwater sources compel farmers in Gujarat to use industrial effluents for irrigation

In Court

India won’t ease milk norms for US

US has to meet all seven criteria to export milk to India

The dollar-conscious producers

Two firms in Tamil Nadu show the way to exporting organically produced foodstuff.

Butterflies brought by tsunami threaten Andaman's ecology

Nutritional security could have made the fight against COVID-19 easier

This weak link between growth in income and nutritional outcomes requires the attention of policy makers

COVID-19: Food wastage on the rise

Lockdowns have led to hoarding and higher supply chain wastage

India to import 3 mln tonnes of pulses in 2020-21

Import could lower prices of domestic pulses, increasing losses to farmers

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