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FRAI urges govt to intensify crackdown on counterfeit products, illicit tradeRetailers are urging the government to intensify efforts against illegal trade and fake products, citing risks to consumer safety and the l...
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...
Drug regulator oversight sought for nutraceuticals; NGO flags quality, pricing concernsA Gujarat NGO is pushing the government to regulate nutraceuticals like medicines. They cite concerns about product quality and unregulated...
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...
Losing out on eating, selling quality foodFSSAI surveys reveal that a significant portion of India's prepared food fails to meet quality standards, exacerbating food insecurity due ...
FSSAI gets 21,042 consumer grievances against food delivery apps in last 5 fiscal yearsOver 21,000 consumer complaints against online food delivery apps have been registered with the FSSAI in the past five years. These complai...
Substandard soan papdi lands Patanjali manager, two others in jail for six monthsAfter many hearings, soan papdi of substandard quality would land Lila Dhar Pathak, a businessman, Ajay Joshi, the distributor and Patanjal...
HC quashes penalty order issued to Tata Chemicals and others over 'substandard iodized salt'The Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court has overturned a 2016 ruling by the Food Safety Appellate Tribunal in Maharashtra's Buldhana, whi...
Delist unlicensed eateries, FSSAI tells delivery firmsThe regulator has also asked 10 such food delivery companies to submit an action-taken report along with details of the restaurants registe...
Defence-run canteen stores department (CSD) supplies sub-standard food items without quality testingAccording to CAG, "CSD head office (HO) shortlisted only 520 items for testing against 956 food and liquor products procured. But out of sh...
Complaints of food quality in CRPF, BSF unsubstantiated: GovernmentIn a written reply to Lok Sabha, Union Minister of state for home Kiren Rijiju said that all the forces have a robust grievance redressal m...
Nestle India rejects Rajasthan food regulator’s report on 'substandard' CerelacCerelac Wheat was found to be substandard by the chief medical and health officer of Rajasmand district in Rajasthan in a report dated Octo...
181 food licences in Thane cancelled for FDA rule violationOf the total food samples inspected last year, 105 were found to be sub-standard and 30 unfit for human consumption.
UP lab finds ITC's Yipee noodles "sub-standard"A state-owned lab in Uttar Pradesh has allegedly found ITC's Yipee noodles "sub-standard", a charge that the company vehemently denied.
Ram Vilas Paswan says fear only among those selling low quality food itemsConsumer health is paramount and companies must sell only healthy food products, even as he assured the government was against "inspector r...
Food samples at KFC, Sagar Ratna, Bikanerwala sub-standard: Delhi govt's Food Safety Department tells HCThe Delhi High Court has been told by the city government's Food Safety Department that rice and other food samples collected from three po...
1394 complaints against food quality served in trainsThere are more than one thousand complaints about sub-standard food and lack of hygienic conditions in trains received by railways last yea...
- 15,000 cases of substandard food products detected in China
Chinese officials claimed to have detected 15,000 cases of substandard food in a crackdown & shut down 5,700 unlicensed businesses.
- Our soldiers being fed substandard food: CAG
The Army is already reeling under a series of meat, egg, atta, dal and other ration scams in recent years, with even Lt-General rank office...
- China approves draft food safety law
Stung by food scandals, China today approved a draft law on food safety to plug "weak points" in production, processing, delivery, storage ...