Safe & Nutritious Food

It gives me immense pleasure to welcome Mr. Pawan Agarwal, CEO, FSSAI (Food Safety and Standards Authority of India) to the Food Safety circle of India. Mr. Agarwal has brought a new sen...

We purchased 2 bottles of Ragu Pasta sauce few weeks ago. After joining this circle today I looked at the bottles with a different set of eyes looking for fssai logo and expiry date. To my surprise...

All we have to do to get compost that can be used in terraces . Of course a few minutes in the morning or evening . Sounds simple . Yes that’s how I started and now I am rich with 40 cubic fe...

Friends,many restaurants and street vendor take short cuts in food preparation which leads to consumption of increased preservatives and additives by us. Can we become more aware about s...

Just read in today's paper that 70 per cent of Ayurveda drugs are supposed to contain cinnamon. However, a substantial part of this might be cassia, which is much cheaper and easily available...

Can FSSAI look at developing a standard where certain foods based on their nutrition value are classified as Junk Food. All these food products like soft drinks, chips, pizzas, high cal biscuits co...

Some members in this circle were discussing use of ozonifiers. My word of caution. Ozone not only deactivates the pesticides and bacteria present on edibles rather it is dangerous for humans, too. ...

All most all posts on food safety offer precautions to be taken by consumers and advise us to be on guard. It is well taken. But I don't understand the following: In the case of manufac...

It is great to see such a community of food experts, citizens and FSSAI. I would like to raise the issue about awareness and action at farmer level. How do we identify common unsafe prac...

The circle on Food Safety could be quite productive if the sample test reports are shared on various public domain, electronic and print media etc. These report should get published with the name ...