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Food safety regulator FSSAI has issued draft guidelines for standards of instant noodles and has proposed that egg powder may be added. According to a PTI report: The notification has been issued in wake of maggi controvesry last year, so...

Pepsico, Coca Cola and Bisleri have got a clean chit from food safety regulator FSSAI for their packaged water facilities, while crackdown is underway on some smaller players operating without valid manufacturing licenses. According to a PTI report: The three...

Food regulator FSSAI has proposed fixing limits for various additives for alcoholic beverages, including wine and others. "Calling for suggestions, views, comments etc from stakeholders within a period of 30 days on the draft notification related to additional additives, enzymes,...

Food regulator FSSAI has asked state authorities to crack down on mineral water packaging units that are operating without its licence. According to a PTI Report: As many as 75 per cent of the packaging units, owned by various firms,...

The Government has banned use of potassium bromate as a food additive following a Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) study that found its presence in bread as causing cancer. The Food Safety Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), however,...

Food regulator FSSAI has asked its central licensing authority to issue a show cause notice to Patanjali Ayurved over complaints about misleading advertisement of mustard oil product...READ MORE

Baba Ramdev-led Patanjali Ayurved has come under the Indian food regulator's scanner yet again, this time over its edible oil brand advertisement, which is alleged to be misleading. According to a PTI report: The Food Safety and Standards Authority of...

Facing allegation about presence of carcinogenic chemcals in their products, a bread manufacturers' body has stopped using controversial potassium bromate and potasium iodate as additives from last night. According to a PTI report: The All India Bread Manufacturers Association, which...