Tag: Food

As per Pranav Anam, Founder, The Gene Box, nutrigenomics as a science that studies the interaction between food and genetics has the potential to pave the way for meaningful personalization and faster adoption of nutrition services.................

The National Food Laboratory is furnished with a comprehensive array of equipment with the latest technologies and facilities to conduct analysis as per global accreditation standards for testing and calibration. FSSAI will also be establishing NFLs at Mumbai and Chennai in the near future along the same lines.................

Dr H K Bhanwala, Chairman, NABARD has emphasized on the linkage of exports and enhancement of income of farmers. He also stressed on the need to ensure ecosystem support for enhancing export of agricultural produce and processed food products.............

The eight-point Charter of Demands presented by the consumer and civil society organization to the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) highlighted immediate steps to be taken for elimination of trans fats from the Indian food system by 2022..................

While screening is one of the elements in the effective management of GI cancers, certain patients with associated complications such as obstructive jaundice require more sophisticated screening.....................

More than 60,000 deaths, approximately, were attributable to high trans fat intake in India in 2010, according to the World Health Organization (WHO)..............

Besides embracing the transformative innovation and technology adoption to boost agriculture, India needs to focus on much required trade disruptions in the year 2019, writes K Vijayaraghavan in this exclusive article that outlines the future outlook of the sector...............

The joint project with Food and Agriculture Organisation, seeks to mainstream biodiversity, climate change and sustainable land management objectives and practices into Indian agriculture......……...

Mentioned Mr Dola Mahapatra, Executive Director, Rise Against Hunger India in his exclusive interaction with the BioVoice. Dr Mahapatra shared details on his organization's vision, current activities and various aspects of policymaking involving huger reduction, nutrition, agricultural production and much more...…………...

Besides approving India’s membership to the Executive Board of the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) for 2020 and 2021, the Food and Agriculture organisation (FAO) Council gave green signal to India’s proposal to observe an International Year of Millets in 2023..................