Media Invitation: Press Conference
Date: December 2, 2020, 12.30 PM INDIA TIME
Date: December 2, 2020, 12.30 PM INDIA TIME
There seems to be a problem with India’s Food safety and standards. This comes in the wake of Nestle admitting that the lead in Maggi noodles is below the Indian standard.
Sunita Narain's response to the comments on her previous editorial "Why I would not advocate vegetarianism"
Food Talk, a media briefing and public meeting organized by Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), takes a close look at the complete gamut of issues related to food labeling, claims and advertisements
This is with reference to our study on residues of potassium bromate/iodate in bread released on May 23, 2016.
CSE welcomes announcement made by Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) to ban use of potassium bromate in bread
CSE’s earlier lab test on Maggi had revealed high salt content and empty calories
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Dr Satya Prakash, former director, Central Food Laboratory, Kolkata talks to Environment Health Bulletin on the status of labs in India. Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) had notified Rules on 5th August 2011 under FSSA Act 2006 to give guidelines to food industry for hygiene and regulations/ standards for safe and wholesome food for human consumption.
• Responses to Sunita Narain's Letter • Endosulfan Industry's dirty war to save its toxic product: Summary of Recent Events by CSE • Chronology of events 'Analysis of samples from Padre Village in Kasaragod district of Kerala for Endosulfan Residues'. • Health impacts of endosulfan • Petition Filed by Emfwa Against Karnataka Government. • EPW Report: Endosulfan - Centre in Denial • Decisions adopted by the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee at its fifth meeting • Decisions adopted by the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee at its sixth meeting • Endosulfan: the Health Effects Division’s human health risk assessment