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The UK's Department for International Trade, is bringing in a strong delegation of UK food and drink companies to participate in the 10th India Food Forum, 31 January - 2 February, in Mumbai. The trade mission brings together seventeen...

Nestle India's instant noodles brand Maggi, whose sales were severely hit by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) ban in 2015, has now cornered close to 60 per cent market share, a top company official said. Maggi...

Tamil Nadu born food tech startup NativeSpecial has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Indian Angel Network, and Madurai-based Native Angels Network. Angel investor Nagaraja Prakasam has led this round of funding on IAN’s behalf and K. Premnath will...

The Odisha government has launched the online registration and licensing system for Food Business Operators (FBOs). According to a PTI report: Inaugurating the facility, Health and Family Welfare minister Pradip Kumar Amat said the online food licensing and registration system...

Food regulator Food Safety and Standards Authority of India recently announced its plans to launch a national campaign to give training to street food vendors for improving their hygiene practices and safety standards. To promote authentic Indian street food, FSSAI...

Regulator FSSAI said it will come up with new regulations for food labelling and packaging as well as strengthen infrastructure to verify claims made by food companies. According to a PTI report: Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI)...

The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has recommended a complete ban on celebrities endorsing foods high in salt, sugar or fat. Delivering her opening address at the briefing, Director General, CSE, Sunita Narain was quoted by PTI as saying,...

Food Safety and Standards Authority (FSSAI) is revising food labelling norms and examining global models, its CEO Pawan Kumar Agarwal said. "Our labelling provisions are currently under revision. We are looking at Codex norms. We are going beyond that to...

Wrapping food items in newspaper is bad for your health as its ink has multiple bioactive materials with known negative health effects, FSSAI said on Friday. "Wrapping food in newspapers is an unhealthy practice and the consumption of such food...

Food regulator FSSAI is collecting samples of milk and honey sold in the market to check quality of these two food items after it received consumer complaints, its CEO Pawan Kumar Agarwal said. According to PTI report: The Food Safety...