Unsafe foods in India

Last week it was reported in media that nestle has been adding sugar in baby formulae which likely led to many of these babies liking sugar and needing sugar as the grew into toddlers and then eventually teenagers.

This week we are seeing reports that masalas from everest and mdh have been found to be carcinogenic or cancer causing by agencies in singapore.

May i please urge LocalCircles to take up food safety as an issue at the earliest.

I find media to be pathetic on this issue. They dont report anything till shit hit the fans and after that they are all over it. Members of media, when issues are being raised by people u should talk about them and not when something has been classified as unsafe and toxic.

If media does not change its ways there is high chance people will stop reading news papers and watching tv news in the next few years more

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Rohini Bhat

You bring up two separate issues, the baby formula with sugar has nothing to do with the way food products containing carcinogen. Contamination starts at the source, meaning farming. First citizens should demand strict control over pesticide and fertilizer use. Indian government is giving free and subsidized pesticides to farmers for years, they use it with no set standards. Why are taxpayers paying for this poison? Why don't we demand and buy clean food? more

Apr 23

Mukut Debchoudhury (i am an nri)

govt is keeping eyes shut . politicians ,ministers compromising with syndicates and wholesellers , one or two days they will ban such items to get more payout. few months back in assam reported ramnant use of formain in fishes , which is dangerous for helath . but authorities instead of banning formain added fish it had asked for the names of laboratories and technicians name who tested the fish sample and finding made public, ramnant use of dangerous pesticides on vegetables like cabagge and other vegetable s is becomining dangerous health hazard but govt is silent no action taken more

Apr 22

PUTHUCODE ANANTHARAMAN

Calcium carbonate, and synthetic colors are some of preservatives added to have long shelf life. FDA, when they check quality vendor to be punished. It is difficult to have corruption free government staff, to keep foid quality. Such quality violations are day to day affairs in oublic eatries. The guilty is Scot free, with the help of the government officials It us better not to buy or eat from outside eatr ies, to keep goid healrh. more

Apr 22

Santosh Ramanand

Also rampant is Artificial Ripening of Mangoes and Nowadays Bananas. They use Carbide to do so which leads to lot of health problems. Authorities always turn a blind eye as they are well taken care of. more

Apr 22

Raghav Gupta

India has stringent Laws for the PFA to implement and they are all bracketed under Criminal offenses. yet giving this a blind run or being selective about imposing the law is due to lack of us as citizens permitting this to go on. There is no quality control becuase we as citizens happilyare consuming low grade / quality and even spurious food and merchandise more

Apr 22

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