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- Sauce that may be costing lives sold at just Rs 20/litre to vendors: UP food raid seizes over 200 litres of contaminated stock
  A food safety raid in Hapur’s Pannapuri led to the sealing of a food manufacturing unit found producing adulterated tomato sauce using vege...
  10 Apr, 2026, 03.56 PM IST
- Parents beware! Kids’ favourite eclairs, mango bites & more chocolates found unsafe. 109+ Telangana manufacturers flagged for serious violations
  A recent Telangana food safety drive inspected 109 confectionery establishments, uncovering widespread issues with product quality and safe...
  01 Apr, 2026, 10.39 AM IST
- Losing out on eating, selling quality food
  FSSAI surveys reveal that a significant portion of India's prepared food fails to meet quality standards, exacerbating food insecurity due ...
  11 Aug, 2025, 11.05 PM IST
- FSSAI gets 21,042 consumer grievances against food delivery apps in last 5 fiscal years
  Over 21,000 consumer complaints against online food delivery apps have been registered with the FSSAI in the past five years. These complai...
  01 Apr, 2025, 07.04 PM IST
- Substandard soan papdi lands Patanjali manager, two others in jail for six months
  After many hearings, soan papdi of substandard quality would land Lila Dhar Pathak, a businessman, Ajay Joshi, the distributor and Patanjal...
  19 May, 2024, 10.10 AM IST
- 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...
  14 May, 2024, 02.33 PM IST
- Now, you won't get Gobi Manchurian in this Goa town. Here's why
  The Mapusa Municipal Council in Goa has banned Gobi Manchurian, a popular fusion dish, due to concerns about poor hygiene, synthetic colors...
  05 Feb, 2024, 04.54 PM IST
- Food platforms yet to delist many restaurants sans FSSAI licence
  Apart from Swiggy, UberEats, Zomato, FSSAI had sent notices to Box8, Fasso’s, FoodCloud, Foodmongo, Foodpanda, Jusfood and LimeTray.
  02 Aug, 2018, 11.59 PM IST
- Delist unlicensed eateries, FSSAI tells delivery firms
  The regulator has also asked 10 such food delivery companies to submit an action-taken report along with details of the restaurants registe...
  21 Jul, 2018, 08.07 AM IST
- 'Decline in child population growth led to fall in enrolment'
  "There is marginal decline in enrolment in government primary schools whereas the enrolment at upper primary level is showing increasing tr...
  17 Dec, 2015, 03.34 PM IST
- Food regulator FSSAI proposes tougher regulations for food importers
  The draft norms require importers to indemnify consumers through third-party insurance cover for injuries or damages caused by imported foo...
  16 Dec, 2015, 03.00 AM IST
- Maggi row: Paswan says govt has nothing against Nestle
  Weeks after regulatory action forced Nestle to pull out popular snack Maggi, Food and Consumer Affairs Minister Ram Vilas Paswan today said...
  22 Jul, 2015, 03.28 AM IST
- Nestle Maggi row: Parliamentary panel to take up food safety issues on July 10
  FSSAI under the Health Ministry, is likely to give a presentation while the Consumer Affairs Ministry will place before the panel concerns ...
  08 Jul, 2015, 03.57 PM IST
- Strict action if noodles found sub-standard: Himachal minister
  Himachal Pradesh government said it will take strict action if samples of any noodle brand are found to be sub-standard.
  06 Jun, 2015, 06.49 PM IST
- Need to implement laws to check food adulteration: Ram Vilas Paswan
  Ram Vilas Paswan said, "Acts and facts are different...the law is good...it has to be implemented by the state governments."
  09 Dec, 2014, 02.57 PM IST
- Govt working on standards to check sub-standard goods' imports
  The Commerce Ministry has been tasked to coordinate with all the departments on the matter.
  01 Sep, 2013, 12.59 PM IST
- Maharashtra minister accuses BJP of misleading people on wheat imports
  The BJP is misleading people on the issue of imported red wheat, Maharashtra Minister for Food and Civil Supplies Sunil Tatkare said.
  04 Nov, 2007, 05.32 AM IST
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