A Parliamentary Standing Committee has called for stricter regulation of sugar content in infant food products, recommending tighter oversight, mandatory front-of-pack sugar disclosures and enhanced…
View More Parliamentary Panel Seeks Tougher Curbs on Sugar in Infant Foods
India Shifts to Smarter Food Regulation with Permanent FSSAI Licences. India is overhauling its food business compliance system, replacing recurring licence renewals with a framework…
View More Faster Licences, Fewer Checks? India’s Food Safety Reforms Face Their Biggest Test
India’s food regulator has refused to soften its stance on the labelling of so-called “energy drinks”, dealing a significant regulatory setback to leading beverage makers,…
View More FSSAI Draws a Red Line on ‘Energy Drinks’; Beverage Giants Get 90 Days to Rebrand
India is rapidly transforming from one of the world’s fastest-growing consumer markets into a major manufacturing base for global fast-moving consumer goods companies. Multinational brands…
View More Global FMCG Giants Bet on ‘Made in India’ as Manufacturing Investments Accelerate
Agricultural scientists and industry representatives have called for a more efficient, transparent and science-based regulatory system to accelerate the safe approval of genetically modified and…
View More Experts Call for Faster, Science-Based Approval of GM and Genome-Edited Crops
India has once again achieved record foodgrain production, but the latest estimates from the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare show that the country’s agricultural…
View More Record Harvest, Bigger Challenges: India’s Agriculture Enters a New Phase
Food industry leaders and legal experts have welcomed the recent amendments introduced by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), describing them as…
View More FSSAI Amendments Win Industry Support for Balancing Food Safety and Ease of Business
Nestlé has agreed to sell a 50% stake in its global waters business to private equity firm Platinum Equity in a $3.4 billion transaction, creating…
View More Nestlé Sells 50% of Waters Business in $3.4 Billion Joint Venture
A Centre-appointed expert committee has proposed linking concessional GST on mango beverages to their actual fruit content, recommending that only drinks containing 22-25% natural mango…
View More Centre Eyes GST Relief for High-Pulp Mango Drinks
Tata Consumer Products Ltd. has signalled further price hikes across its portfolio if rising commodity costs, geopolitical tensions in West Asia or an El Niño-led…
View More Tata Consumer to Raise Prices if Input Costs Climb