Processed Food
Farmers rights to be protected during food processing modernisation: MoS
As the Centre moves to modernise the food processing sector of the country, it will also protect the rights and interests of farmers, Union Minister of State (MoS) for Food Processing and Jal Shakti Prahlad Singh Patel said here on Friday. The Minister, who is presently in the southern state, gave the assurance while visiting the CSIR-National Institute For Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (NIIST) at Pappanamcode here during the day, a government statement said. Scientists at the Institute apprised the Minister of the activities of NIIST and he also viewed a presentation on the progress of various projects of the institute, it said. Patel visited various labs at NIIST and the officials briefed him about the eco-friendly products manufactured there, it further said and added that the Minister also planted a sapling in the institute's campus. He later visited MoS External Affairs and Parliamentary Affairs V Muraleedharan who is undergoing treatment at KIMS hospital in ...
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Premature death linked to consumption of ultra processed food: Study
In Brazil, reducing UPF consumption by 10 per cent to 50 per cent could potentially prevent 5,900 to 29,300 premature deaths annually
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DFM Foods freezes at 20% upper circuit on promoter's delisting proposal
DFM Foods has outperformed the market by surging 47 per cent in a week, as compared to 1.5 per cent gain in the S&P BSE Sensex.
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Top poultry player Suguna Foods goes for brand revamp with all new Delfrez
The group has invested over Rs 100 crore in the new brand and plans to launch over 1,000 outlets by 2025
Exports of agri, processed food products up 14.7% to $11.65 bn in Apr-Oct
Exports of agricultural and processed food products rose by 14.7% to $11.65 billion during the April-October period on the back of healthy growth in commodities
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Japanese brand Kikkoman plans to turn the Indian palate to soy sauce
World's largest soy sauce maker enters India through fully-owned subsidiary
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TPCI urges govt for flat 5% GST on all processed food items to spur growth
The Trade Promotion Council of India (TPCI) on Friday urged the government for a flat 5 per cent Goods and Services Tax (GST) on all food processed items to spur the growth of the sector. The council also pushed for input tax credit on food sales; tax holiday for five years for companies investing in infrastructure, including digital infrastructure; special incentives to food processing through interest subvention, and lower taxes; and competitive import tariffs over five years, with lowest or nil slab on inputs or raw materials. TPCI Founder Chairman Mohit Singla said non-tariff barriers in the food sector are impacting the industry and trade. "The new standards such as Alimentrus Codex Standard of EU require a lot of investment to meet. Therefore, TPCI demands a separate fund/ incentives for R&D and testing labs for meeting the global standards," he added. Chairman, Food and Beverages Committee, Vivek Agarwal said some of the items like molasses, white chocolate, cocoa butter, ..
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Processed food linked to cancer? Media ignores problems with the study
The researchers used data from a large cohort study, called NutriNet-Sante, that tracks the eating habits and health of thousands of French people
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Aspirational value of processed food
Amazed at how many processed foods a migrant was thinking of at the time, I went into lecture mode
