Tips to check quality of some common foods

Some simple tests to check oil, honey, sugar and other items for adulteration

Tightening up

To rein in beverages industry

Ban likely on junk food in schools

Food safety authority asks states to consider prohibition

Clean milk drive

Stalemate

Over food law enforcement

Pesticide-rich food

Agriculture department confirms high pesticide residues

The Honey Trap

Investigation into the business of adulteration of honey

Follow Up

Rampant food adulteration in Mysore

Who has framed the Food Safety and Standards Bill, the government or the industry?

Adulterated milk floods Maharashtra

Don't make the world dysfunctional

Centre eases quarantine norms for wheat imports

Food safety mess

Traders say Food Safety and Standards Act rolls out red carpet for multinationals

In short

Bihar bans gutkha on World No Tobacco Day

The ban is already successful in Madhya Pradesh and Kerala

How do you like your food, sir?

EC stops import of US long-grain rice

Rajasthan human rights body seeks answers over food adulteration

In petition, Commission claims use of banned food dyes; use of colour on low quality cereals, and vegetables being washed in sewage water

On the dotted line

India's decision to ratify the Biosafety Protocol is meaningless unless domestic laws are tightened

Handy testing kit

Ever wanted to find out whether there is urea in the milk you consume or if oil of argemone has found its way in your mustard oil? Rasoi Kasauti, …

Can adulteration of edible oils be addressed by the Goonda Act?

Madras HC recently called for classifying those who adulterate food as goons; but we need long-term solutions

Requiem

It was a strong anti -adulteration law aimed at the standardising of food stuffs. Stronger industrial lobbies and vested interests helped it die …

Honey Fraud: Central consumer authority to act on CSE findings

The Central Consumer Protection Authority has asked food regulator, the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India, to take appropriate …

Supreme Court notice to Centre, states on honey adulteration plea based on CSE probe

CSE probe last year, brought to you by Down To Earth, exposed how Indian honey brands have been taking consumers for a ride