FSSAI’s ‘Swasth Bharat Yatra’ campaign concludes in nation capital
Food regulator FSSAI-led ‘Swasth Bharat Yatra’, a pan-India cyclothon to sensitise people about eating safe food and being healthy, concluded at Connaught Place in the national capital. In this national campaign launched on October 16 last year, Tamil Nadu bagged the best state award for its active participation. Minister of State for Health Ashwini Kumar […]
Lancet report blames ‘Big Food’ firms for fuelling obesity, climate change
Big Food is portrayed as the new Big Tobacco in a sweeping report that links the industry’s influence to a global obesity epidemic, along with malnutrition and climate change. The Lancet Commission on Obesity blamed a growth-focused sector for a system that gorges populations on empty calories while misusing land, energy and other resources. Without […]
FSSAI Asks Food Officers to Keep Check on Labelling Defects on Health Supplement Packaging
FSSAI has pointed out that it has received reports that nutraceutical/ health supplement products that have gelatine shells or contain ingredients of animal origin are depicting the green dot on their packaging, therefore, declaring the same as vegetarian. The FSSAI states that this is in contravention of the Food Safety and Standards (Packaging and Labelling) […]
Commodity outlook: Short-term indicators turn bullish for edible oils
Markets have been firm due to positive cues from key soybean contracts on the Chicago Board of Trade. Soybean futures on the Chicago bourse rose due to concerns about a smaller crop in Brazil, the world’s second-largest producer, following a spell of dry weather. Soyoil futures on NCDEX, too, rose in line with those of […]
FMCG to grow 11-12% in 2019, slightly slower than 2018 – Nielsen
Market research firm Nielsen expects India’s fast moving consumer goods sector to grow 11-12% during calendar year 2019, a tad lower than a year ago period due to higher base. In 2018, the FMCG market grew 13.8% helped by favourable macros such as GDP growth and Inflation as well as manufacturers passing on the benefits […]
Britain’s biggest retailer Tesco set to axe up to 9,000 jobs
Britain’s biggest retailer, supermarket group Tesco, said that it planned to axe up to 9,000 jobs under the next stage of a vast restructuring programme, as it continues to come up against increasing competition from German discount retailers Aldi and Lidl. Tesco, which employs about 300,000 staff in the UK out of a total global […]
George Fernandes: The minister who threw Coca-Cola out of India, stalled HPCL privatization
In 1977, he threw Coca-Cola out of India and two-and-a-half decades later, put spokes in the sale of India’s second-biggest fuel retailer HPCL to the likes of Reliance Industries and Royal Dutch Shell. That was George Mathew Fernandes, former defence minister in the Vajpayee government who died Tuesday. A firebrand trade unionist and socialist, Fernandes […]
Cremica Food Industries to open food park in Himachal’s Una
FMCG firm Cremica Food Industries said it would start a food park in Una district of Himachal Pradesh next month, for which it has made an investment of over Rs 100 crore. The food park is spread across 55 acre and has been developed as one of the finest food processing infrastructure facilities, said a […]
