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Customer wins Rs 15,000 compensation after restaurant collects Rs 151 service charge as ‘staff contribution’; Consumer Commission orderA man has won Rs 15,000 compensation after a Jalandhar restaurant charged him Rs 151.53 as service charge. The Consumer Commission ruled th...
Pune hooch tragedy: Toll rises to 17 as 22 police, excise officials suspended, methanol supplier tracedA spurious liquor tragedy in Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad has claimed 17 to 18 lives. Most victims were daily wage labourers. The state govern...
Maharashtra: Five police officials suspended amid chaos over deaths linked to illicit liquor consumptionTen people have died from consuming illicit liquor in Pimpri-Chinchwad and Pune. Five police officials, including a Senior Police Inspector...
Nearly 1,000 kg fake chilli, garam masala, turmeric and coriander found in Delhi’s Khari Baoli, Asia’s largest wholesale spice marketPolice raided an illegal spice unit in Delhi's Khari Baoli. They seized 802 kg of fake spices. Adulterated materials like rice and industri...
Gujarat saunf adulteration: 3,500 kg of fennel seeds dyed with unsafe chemicals seized in major raidThe Gujarat Food Safety Department seized more than 3,500 kilograms of allegedly adulterated fennel seeds from Ganapati Cleaning Factory in...
Mumbai watermelon case update: Stunning twist as no additives found in fruit by FDA, focus shifts to poison angleMumbai watermelon case: Investigations into the deaths of a Mumbai family have ruled out food adulteration, with FDA tests finding no conta...
Can watermelon turn so deadly that it can kill you? Doctors explain after 4 Mumbai deaths & here’s how to eat it safelyA tragic incident in Mumbai, where four family members died after reportedly consuming watermelon, has raised concerns over food poisoning,...
How to spot real and fake watermelon: Simple home tests to do amid FSSAI findings of adulterated fruits in marketsWith rising concerns over adulterated fruits in the market, especially during summer, knowing how to identify real and fake watermelon at h...
Vaishno Devi offerings case exposes toxic metal in silver: How this adulterant, if present in your jewellery, can damage lungs, kidneys & raise cancer riskA major controversy has emerged at the Vaishno Devi Temple after investigations found that much of the “silver” donated by devotees contain...
Fake mango alert: 3,800 kg of chemically made pulp seized in Pune. Know side effects & how to identify artificially ripened aam at homeMango Adulteration Alert: With the mango season in full swing, rising cases of mango adulteration in India have sparked serious food safety...
How much The Real Housewives of Atlanta star Drew Sidora and estranged husband Ralph Pittman earn? Divorce court documents reveal income, custody and housing battleHow much The Real Housewives of Atlanta star Drew Sidora and estranged husband Ralph Pittman earn became public after court filings from th...
Sauce that may be costing lives sold at just Rs 20/litre to vendors: UP food raid seizes over 200 litres of contaminated stockA food safety raid in Hapur’s Pannapuri led to the sealing of a food manufacturing unit found producing adulterated tomato sauce using vege...
Navratri food crackdown: Kuttu, singhara atta, sendha namak, laddoos seized in FSSAI raids across Haridwar, Mau, Ghaziabad and other districtsAuthorities are intensifying food safety checks across Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand as Navratri celebrations begin, cracking down on adult...
Hyderabad fake ghee raid: How 3,000 kg of cow & buffalo cream were mixed with cheap substances and supplied to publicAuthorities in Hyderabad busted an illegal dairy unit producing fake ghee and cream using palm oil and vanaspati. More than 3,000 kg of adu...
Your jeerawala tadka could be deadly: How cement-coated fennel is being sold as cumin in a fake spice racket across IndiaFake spice racket: In a disturbing case of food adulteration in Gwalior, what was being sold as cumin was found to be fennel seeds coated w...
Cough syrup adulteration case: Tamil Nadu government suspends two senior drug inspectorsTamil Nadu suspended two senior drug inspectors for inaction in a cough syrup adulteration case. The state government is taking steps to pe...
'Only in India we are liberal with health concerns', says SC on bail plea in food adulteration caseHearing appeals against dismissal of their pre-arrest bail pleas by the Madhya Pradesh High Court at Indore, the bench was told by lawyer P...
Maharashtra govt mulls life term imprisonment for adulterationThe move is being considered in the wake of rising cases of food adulteration and spurious chemical products in the past three years.
Fuel spiking rampant, admits governmentThe Centre agreed with the SC that fuel adulteration, mainly mixing kerosene with petrol and diesel, was rampant in the country.
China registers over 5.62 lakh food adulteration cases in 2014Most complaints were about online sales of fake products, false advertising, unlicensed production and adverse reactions.