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FSSAI turns aggregator to eradicate hunger

Indian Food Recovery Alliance will serve as a platform for NGOs engaged in collecting leftover food to meet volunteers, donors

FSSAI training food businesses to improve food safety standards

All food businesses need to have at least one person as food safety supervisor who has to be trained and certified as per FSSAI's curriculum

FSSAI flags off 9 mobile food testing labs, to offer 53 more

FSSAI's CEO Pawan Agarwal announced plans to launch a food safety index to judge all states and UTs

Identity crisis

Set up in 2011, FSSAI has moved gradually while setting standards for the food industry

FSSAI panel to address concerns on health supplements, nutraceuticals

Challenge with food supplements is that there is no framework for testing food supplements products

FSSAI panel cracks whip on junk food, bats for tax, ad ban on kid's channel

The Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006, does not define the term "junk food", the panel observed

FSSAI bans import of food items with less than 60% shelf life

Shelf life means the period between the date of manufacture and the Date of expiry

FSSAI drafting organic food norms

Size of organic food market is around Rs 3,350 cr, industry estimates suggest its growing 30% a year

FSSAI sets rules to check health supplement mis-labelling

FSSAI has specified that health supplements should not be sold as medicines

Limit for iron particles in tea increased to 250 mg/kg: FSSAI

The continuous presence of iron filings in tea has raised safety concerns and there have been many demands to fix an upper limit

New food norms to open up value-added market

According to the draft guidelines, 850-1,100 parts per million iron can now be added to salt to hike level of micronutrients

FSSAI proposes norms to hold e-tailers responsible for food quality

The guidelines, released on Tuesday for public comments, include any online platform or e-commerce site of manufacturer involved in the food business in any form

Food importers allege lack of action on new guidelines

New guidelines take into account some key concerns of food importers on single-window clearance & random sampling of products

FSSAI proposes new standards for frozen veggies, jams

According to the draft, standards have been framed for canned tomatoes, tomato juice, frozen beans, cauliflower, peas and spinach

Now, FSSAI wants to monitor water supplied by municipalities

The FSSAI is in talks with state authorities to plug the holes arising out of lack of co-ordination between different agencies

FSSAI looking for ways to regulate online food business

While the regulator has already held a meeting with all major ecommerce firms, it is looking for more clarity on the matter

FSSAI makes public draft standards on making instant noodles

The standards specify the raw materials that can be used for manufacturing of noodles

FSSAI to allow up to 5% vegetable fats in chocolates

Artificial sweetener Isomaltulose also permitted; move is likely to benefit importers

FSSAI proposes double ash content in noodles

Ash content is now allowed up to 1%, the new notification has proposed to increase it to 2% for seasonings or tastemakers

FSSAI partners with ASCI to keep a tab on misleading ads

From now on, ASCI can take up cases and process complaints against misleading F&B advertisers