Food Manifest 
Overview Ahead of the Diwali festival, food safety authorities across India have stepped up inspections and enforcement drives to ensure the safety and quality of sweets, snacks, and other festive food. Ludhiana The district food safety team intensified inspections to ensure that local markets sell safe and high-quality food. Officials collected nine samples of sweets,
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Key Update Under FSSAI’s Repurpose Used Cooking Oil (RUCO) programme, officials have collected 245 kilolitres of used oil from food businesses in the district over the past four months. Approved aggregators converted this into 192 kilolitres of biodiesel. FSSAI launched RUCO to make food businesses sell used oil to licensed aggregators instead of reusing it
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Major Update The Food Safety Department has invited food business operators (FBOs) in Coimbatore district to apply for a state-level award that recognises best practices in reducing the use of single-use plastic and other plastic materials banned by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI). The initiative, launched by the Tamil Nadu government,
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key Development The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) launched a major inspection drive on e-commerce warehouses in Tamil Nadu and found serious lapses in food storage. During the three-day operation, officials inspected 37 warehouses in the Coimbatore district alone, acting on directions from the State Health Secretary and the Commissioner of Food
READ MOREReport The Tamil Nadu Food Safety Department will soon install ‘oil, sugar, and salt’ awareness boards in all educational institutions across Coimbatore to promote healthy eating habits and raise food safety awareness among students. About the Initiative Officials launched a campaign to tackle the growing problem of childhood obesity and non-communicable diseases (NCDs). The board
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Report Between January 1 and June 25, Food Safety Officers inspected 746 retail shops and wholesale fruit storage facilities across the Coimbatore district. They conducted these inspections during the peak mango season to check for violations of artificial ripening. Officials identified 26 traders who were using ethylene sachets to ripen mangoes in an unapproved manner.
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