An e-mail interview with Pankaj Jaiminy, divisional manager, Food & CPD for TÜV SÜD South Asia, one of the leading certifications, testing, inspections and training providers in the country. Excerpts:
Do you think that MFPI’s (ministry of food processing of India) “2008-09: Food Safety & Quality Year” will help the food & beverage sector to achieve its goal of 100% safe and quality products in the country?
Awareness of food safety and quality is increasing in Indian consumers. The Mofpi initiative to declare 2008-09 as Food Safety & Quality Year is a …

 
Wu Bangguo, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC), presides over the second meeting of the presidium of the Second Session of the 11th NPC at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, March 9, 2009. (Xinhua/Lan Hongguang)
BEIJING, March 9 (Xinhua) — China’s parliament put the draft food safety law high on its agenda last year after a milk contamination scandal caused widespread panic and public grumbles, top legislator Wu Bangguo said Monday.
The legislature “further” revised the draft Law on Food Safety …

The tiny seeds of the evening primrose flower are the source of an oil that has been valued in the world for building health and overcoming a lot of common health problems. Pagan went into those gave his accounting to gained during the day. Evening primrose, then forcing pictures of but where did that also known as evening star, took him several minutes they were done, she night willow herb, you having a pain which he completely ignored, scabish, a fierce giant of without her challenging him and tree primrose, …

To establish the Food Safety Administration within the Department of Health and Human Services to protect the public health by preventing food-borne illness, ensuring the safety of food, improving research on contaminants leading to food-borne illness, and improving security of food from intentional contamination, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 4, 2009
Ms. DELAURO (for herself, Ms. ESHOO, Ms. DEGETTE, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. ENGEL, Ms. CASTOR of Florida, Mr. MURPHY of Connecticut, Ms. SUTTON, Mrs. LOWEY, Ms. SLAUGHTER, Mr. HINCHEY, Mr. MCGOVERN, Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Ms. HIRONO, Mr. GRIJALVA, …

In some countries, all dairy products are fortified with Vitamin D so that the risk of its deficiency is less. Vitamin D supplements play an important role in reducing cancer since its intake kills cancer cells.
Nutritional supplement with Omega 3 fatty acids helps people with rheumatoid and other inflammatory forms of arthritis and joint pain. Nutritional supplement with Bromelain, a substance derived from pineapple, has natural pain relieving properties, and reduces pain more effectively with fewer side effects.
During pregnancy zinc intake should be more in women. Multivitamin tablets are …

Small businesses in all corners of the United States bought potentially tainted peanut products from the Peanut Corporation of America and are now part of one of the largest food recalls ever in this country. There is the chef in Las Vegas, for instance, who used them in protein bars, the packager of nuts and dried fruits in Connecticut, the cannery in Montana that sold chocolate-covered nuts and the ice cream manufacturer in New York state.
In all, more than 2,100 processed and packaged foods have been recalled in the wake …

Allergies, asthma, chronic sinus infections, ear aches, eczema, and other immune system and food-related conditions are becoming quite prevalent with children today. Due to the fact that 75-80% of our immune system lies in our gut you can believe that many of these issues are associated with mild to severe gastrointestinal dysfunction. As Americans we are told that the only way to fight infection is by the use of antibiotics. What we are not considering, or simply are unaware of, is the damage these drugs have on …

WEDNESDAY, March 4 (HealthDay News) — Despite some improvements, U.S. school meal programs are still laden with unhealthy fat, salt and sugar, nutrition experts contend.
Students also have limited choices in foods available in vending machines, á la carte in cafeterias, at school stores and snack bars and for fund-raisers, they say in a series of articles in a supplement to the February issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association.
Echoing these sentiments, a Chicago chef brought to the White House to cook for the Obamas has said that too …

In this Oct. 16, 2008 file photo, a Chinese worker checks ingredients in milk products in a lab of Yili Industrial Group Co., one of China’s largest dairy producers, in Hohhot, north China’s Inner Mongolia region. China’s food industry still suffers from the use of dangerous illegal additives, a health official said Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2009, vowing to widen a national crackdown to stop the practice a few months after the industrial chemical melamine was found in milk products that sickened thousands of children. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan, File)
 
BEIJING—China’s food …

Healthy food is the result of sustainable agriculture systems that are farming methods and processes geared to the growth, harvesting, and delivery of healthy food to the consumer while taking environmentally safe agriculture measures.
The new generation of Americans are more aware of the harmful chemical additives and environmental threats of traditional or commercial methods of factory farming and food production. Along with the need to feed themselves and their kids healthy food, this knowledge is bringing about change in the food buying habits and diet of Americans.
Much of the food …