CSE welcomes Delhi Government move to ask schools to consider banning junk foods and create awareness about its ill-effects

The Directorate of Education, Delhi has directed heads of schools to create awareness among students and parents about ill effects of foods high in fat, sugar and salt (HFSS) and to consider banning sale of such junk foods in schools’ canteens 

Latest study by CSEs Pollution Monitoring Lab finds Antibiotic Residues in chicken

Growing antibiotic-resistance in humans also because of large-scale indiscriminate use of antibiotics in poultry industry, claims CSE study

CSE welcomes FSSAI guidelines on junk food in schools but is concerned about delay in implementation

FSSAI has issued draft guidelines on wholesome and nutritious food availability in school that would help control junk food consumption among school children in India

CSE welcomes FSSAI move that halves trans fat limit from 10 to 5 per cent

FSSAI has cut down the maximum permitted trans fats in fats and oils. At 5 per cent, the new standards are half of the earlier limit and will come into force by August 2016

CSE welcomes ministry recommendations on banning sale of junk foods in school canteens, wants these implemented across schools in India

A committee on junk food and childhood obesity set up by the Ministry of Women and Child Development has recommended ban on junk foods in school canteens and within 200 meters of  school

CSE welcomes food authorities' initiative in testing processed food like Maggi

CSE’s earlier lab test on Maggi had revealed high salt content and empty calories 

Contamination of food is the greatest challenge for food safety in India, says CSE on World Health Day (April 7)

 Food safety is the theme for the World Health Day in 2015

CSE marks 30 years of Bhopal, organises Public Meeting, releases new book

Bhopal 2.0 requires government to clean the toxic waste lying in the factory and fix liability. The lesson is that post-Bhopal, India has laws for hazardous waste management and industrial disasters, but no compliance. Which is why we have scores of mini-Bhopals every year

CSE dispels recent myths perpetuated by Indian poultry industry on use of antibiotics in chicken

Reveals that poultry industry is misleading the public by saying that residues found in Indian chicken are lower than the EU standards. 

CSE's recommendations to control antibiotic use in poultry industry gets support from the medical fraternity

The food authority also begins to act

Unregulated and unlawful

Presence of heavy metals in cosmetics – a CSE study release

Paradigm shift in India's health policy needed, say top officials speaking at CSE conference on Food Safety and Environmental Toxins

Policy should move from disease control to prevention, and focus more on water and sanitation, safe food and clean environment

Continuing nightmare in Bhopal: CSE laboratory tests soil, water samples from Union Carbide

Links toxins to production processes of plant. Bhopal, December 1, 2009: For more than 25 years, the Union Carbide (UCIL) factory has been contaminating the land and water of Bhopal. Latest tests show that groundwater in areas even three km away from the factory contains almost 40 times more pesticides than Indian standards.

CSE responds to pesticide industry advertisement published in the guise of public interest appeal in a major national daily.

Pesticide regulation is clearly about high stakes. The stakes concern our health and our bodies

CSE's national conference on food safety and environmental toxins kicks off

Puts the limelight on lax regulations, weak enforcement

'Junk the junk food': Rahul Bose, Sandeep Dikshit run to support CSE's campaign to shun junk food in schools

// // Over 400 school and college students participate in Quarterathon for a cause of public health