India Embraces Healthier Beverage Choices as Sugar-Free Trend Grows
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- August 1, 2025
Food Manifest 
Key Update The Telangana Food Safety team recently uncovered serious violations at multiple spice manufacturing and repacking units during its ongoing ‘Spices Drive’, which covered all 33 districts and over 30 establishments across the state. Officials shared their findings on the department’s official X account to raise public awareness about hygiene lapses and regulatory violations.
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Key Development A division bench of the Rajasthan High Court has barred FSSAI and the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC) from approving the sale, manufacture, distribution, or import of genetically modified (GM) food items in India until they frame comprehensive regulations. The court asked the authorities to complete the regulations within six months under Section
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Key Update The Madhya Pradesh Food and Drugs Administration (MP-FDA) has expanded its scrutiny beyond medicines and, as a result, revealed that nearly one in every 30 food samples tested in the state was adulterated. Between April 1 and September 30, food safety officers across Madhya Pradesh collected 9,827 legal samples and 12,214 surveillance samples.
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Key Update Thiruvananthapuram authorities discovered unhygienic conditions at the base kitchen in Thycaud, Kerala, which prepares meals for the Vande Bharat train. The finding emerged during a statewide operation named ‘Operation Pothichor’, carried out under the directive of the Railway Police Chief, with health department officials to monitor food quality on trains and at railway
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