1. North Eastern Indian state of Nagaland has placed restrictions on the availability of junk food in and around its schools and colleges as raising cases of obesity, hypertension and diabetes among school childeren have been observed.
2. Staying with regulation the FSSAI has asked all states to keep strict watch on dairy products as well as packaged drinking water and edible oils. The directive comes after detergent was allegdly found in Mother dairy milk samples in Agra.
3. ITC has been given 15days notice to clarify the nutritional claims its authors on the labels of its sunfeast Yippee noodles line after Uttarakhand officials tested samples from a store in Haridwar. The notice directs ITC to provide nutrients profile and lab reports to back their claims of energy, protein, carbohydrate, sugar and calcium.
4. Cumin prices have increased by almost one third in 2015 after a surge of 6% last month, with production forecast down by 20%.
5. Several federal agencies including USDA announced actions and investments of more than $110 million to support workers, farmers and rural communities suffering from drought and to combat wildfires.
6. The proposed regional milk grid in South Asia will benefit dairy farmers in the region by linking milk surplus countries with the deficit ones, they said. New Delhi will also push for tariff reduction to less than 5% under the South Asia Free Trade Area (SAFTA) agreement to facilitate the grid. The move is expected to benefit South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries like Bangladesh, Bhutan and Sri Lanka, which import milk from outside the region to meet their demand.
7.Indian flour millers and global trading companies have sewn up deals to import 500,000 tonnes of wheat.
2. Staying with regulation the FSSAI has asked all states to keep strict watch on dairy products as well as packaged drinking water and edible oils. The directive comes after detergent was allegdly found in Mother dairy milk samples in Agra.
3. ITC has been given 15days notice to clarify the nutritional claims its authors on the labels of its sunfeast Yippee noodles line after Uttarakhand officials tested samples from a store in Haridwar. The notice directs ITC to provide nutrients profile and lab reports to back their claims of energy, protein, carbohydrate, sugar and calcium.
4. Cumin prices have increased by almost one third in 2015 after a surge of 6% last month, with production forecast down by 20%.
5. Several federal agencies including USDA announced actions and investments of more than $110 million to support workers, farmers and rural communities suffering from drought and to combat wildfires.
6. The proposed regional milk grid in South Asia will benefit dairy farmers in the region by linking milk surplus countries with the deficit ones, they said. New Delhi will also push for tariff reduction to less than 5% under the South Asia Free Trade Area (SAFTA) agreement to facilitate the grid. The move is expected to benefit South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries like Bangladesh, Bhutan and Sri Lanka, which import milk from outside the region to meet their demand.
7.Indian flour millers and global trading companies have sewn up deals to import 500,000 tonnes of wheat.
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