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Empire Restaurant in Benagluru Faces Trouble as Tests Confirm Banned Food Colours 0
- A to Z, Event, Food Hygiene, Food Safety, Health & Wellness, News
- July 30, 2025
Key Development Bengaluru’s popular Empire restaurant chain, already under the scanner for serving unsafe chicken kebabs, now faces deeper scrutiny as lab reports confirm the presence of banned food colours in its dishes. The State Food Laboratory has found Sunset Yellow—a synthetic food dye banned in kebabs by the Karnataka government—in samples collected from multiple
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Ham Salad Recalled in U.S. Over Listeria Concerns 0
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- July 30, 2025
Key Development The Food Safety Authority of the United States (FSIS) has issued a nationwide public health alert for certain ready-to-eat ham salad products. These products may be unsafe because they contain breadcrumb ingredients that are suspected to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, a harmful bacterium that can cause serious illness. Products Under Alert 12-ounce
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FSSAI flag 500+ e-commerce food warehouses for safety violations 0
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- July 29, 2025
Key Development The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) served notices to 526 storage facilities linked to e-commerce food platforms following 8,143 inspections conducted in 2024–25, Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Jitin Prasada informed the Rajya Sabha. Over the past two years, FSSAI has conducted five meetings with online food business
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FTA Fallout: How Ultra-Processed Imports Threaten India’s Health 0

Key Development India’s Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the UK, announced recently, allows tariff-free imports of British food and drink, chocolates, sweet biscuits, soft drinks, and more. A similar pact with four EU nations points to a likely surge in ultra-processed food imports at lower prices. While this appears to boost trade, it raises serious

TTD Launches In-House Food Testing Lab to Ensure Prasadam Safety 0

Key Development For the first time, food samples—such as ingredients used in the iconic Tirupati laddoo prasadam and food served to devotees—can now be tested for quality directly in Tirumala. The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) inaugurated a modern Food Quality Testing Laboratory on Tuesday. TTD Chairman B.R. Naidu and Executive Officer (EO) J. Syamala Rao

India’s Sugar-to-Ethanol Push May Disrupt Food Chain and Safety 0

Key Development India plans to divert nearly a quarter of its sugar output to ethanol production by 2034, a move that could reshape the food supply chain and raise concerns about long-term food safety and availability. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) outlined these trends in