Four-year-old boy dies after swallowing toy in chips packet in KandhamalA toddler dies in Odisha after a toy in a chips packet got stuck in his food pipe. The toy choked the airway of the child, which led to his...
20 Nov, 2025, 04.11 PM IST
Vande Bharat train passenger finds insect in sambhar, Railways issue clarificationA passenger travelling on the Vande Bharat Express found an insect in their breakfast sambar. Southern Railways apologised, investigated th...
17 Nov, 2024, 09.28 AM IST
Zomato CEO Deepinder Goyal chief says Hyperpure’s packaging date fiasco was manual error by vendorDeepinder Goyal said the vendor in question has been delisted from the B2B marketplace’s database. But he wonders why the small number of m...
04 Nov, 2024, 08.47 PM IST
FSSAI allows labelling curd in regional names amid political controversyFood safety regulator FSSAI on Thursday revised its order and allowed the use of regional names in printed labels of curd packets amid poli...
30 Mar, 2023, 06.27 PM IST
UP authorities order not to distribute free food packets with photographs of PM, CM"The food commissioner of Uttar Pradesh issued directions to all district magistrates of the state not to distribute free food packets cont...
08 Jan, 2022, 09.28 PM IST
India formulates safety code for vegan foodThe Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has formulated draft Food Safety and Standards (Vegan Food) Regulations 2021.
08 Sep, 2021, 08.53 AM IST
Madhya Pradesh: Digvijaya Singh's food facility shut after COVID-19 scareThe food facility was being run from a building owned by the former MLA, who tested positive for coronavirus, a source in the Congress said.
12 May, 2020, 04.26 PM IST
COVID-19 pandemic: Social organisations provide food to needySome Sikh community members have been organising 'langar' (free kitchen) at a gurudwara in suburban Mumbai since last two days. Besides, so...
24 Mar, 2020, 01.19 PM IST
Maggi effect: FSSAI issues order on defying MSG related normsFSSAI has allowed state authorities to start proceedings against noodle or pasta makers if taste enhancer monosodium glutamate is found in ...
01 Apr, 2016, 09.47 PM IST
'Live' beetles found in Cerelac in CoimbatoreTalking to reporters, Food and Safety department official Kathiravan said "the samples were collected and will be sent to labs for testing.
16 Jun, 2015, 11.18 PM IST
Live worms found in Nestle Cerelac baby food in CoimbatoreLive worms were found in a packet of Nestle Cerelac baby food bought by an IT professional in Coimbatore for his one-year-old son.
16 Jun, 2015, 04.51 PM IST
After ban, Jammu and Kashmir authorities crackdown on Maggi productsJ-K authorities lifted 103 samples for laboratory testing and also seized thousands of packets of the Nestle product from different distric...
05 Jun, 2015, 09.58 PM IST
Maggi row: CSE for nutrition fact labelling on productsCSE said that as a consumer's right, what is there in a food product should be clearly mentioned on the pack with quantity of each ingredie...
05 Jun, 2015, 02.29 PM IST
Maggi scare: CSE study had flagged instant noodles for high salt contentA CSE study on junk food had flagged health concerns over 'very high salt content' in Nestle's Maggi instant noodles three years ago.
04 Jun, 2015, 11.00 AM IST
High lead levels found in Maggi noodles, Delhi mulling banA Delhi govt spokesman said 10 out of 13 samples tested for lead content in the popular food item were found to have amounts higher than pe...
03 Jun, 2015, 10.28 AM IST
Tested Maggi samples, lead within safe limits: NestleThe company was, however, silent on presence of the taste enhancer monosodium glutamate (MSG) in the famous 'two-minute' noodle brand.
02 Jun, 2015, 04.36 AM IST
68 per cent of milk does not meet food norms: Centre tells SCAn overwhelming majority of samples of milk supplied across the country failed to meet the food safety and standard norms.
03 Jul, 2013, 10.35 AM IST