Fake 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...

Chinese tariffs on US agricultural products like fruit, vegetables, meat, and grains took effect, but Beijing market vendors remain unfazed...

Changing consumer food habits is challenging, especially moving from unbranded to branded products. The dropsy scare in 1998 boosted refine...

Auditors uncovered “deficient” manufacturing equipment cleaning and storage controls during a visit last month to an Aurobindo Pharma Ltd. ...

Despite campaigns for regulatory reform since a corruption and fraud scandal in 2013, India's Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation r...

Food bought from overseas soaks up dollars, which no developing economy wants to part with right now. But that isn’t all. In the current ge...

The US drug agency is bewildered with Indian pharma industry's culture of getting things done at all costs.

Dubious testing facilities, half-baked safety standards and nonchalant attitudes to hygiene may mean that every food item is prone to conta...

The move came in response to media and public outcry after a Shanghai TV station exposed Shanghai Husi Food Co. of selling stale meat.

FDA’s statement comes as a validation of the claim by Indian drug manufacturers who had maintained that Ranbaxy’s $500 mn settlement was an...

A reform-oriented Budget package that phases out subsidies can herald 8% growth next fiscal year.

South Korea, Australia and Japan on Saturday pulled melamine-contaminated sweets and drinks from supermarket shelves amid a widening scanda...

Multinationals Mars and Nestle have been told to pull three products from South Korean shelves over the China milk scandal.

The note posted in July on the Web site of China's food safety inspection agency came from a doctor: There had been a sudden rise in infant...

China's tainted milk scandal spiralled into uncharted territory with the government announcing that up to 53,000 children had been sickened...

Although no trace of infant formula from China has turned up in the United States, federal authorities have said they are taking added prec...

US Congressional Committee is launching an investigation in US FDA whether it was lenient in allowing Ranbaxy to sell new drugs in the US m...