: Officials of the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday seized mangoes from vendors who used calcium carbide to ripen the fruits. According to experts, usage of calcium carbide is extremely harmful to health. While mangoes worth Rs 1,91,400 were seized from a shop near Sindhuwadi at MG Road in Ghatkopar (E), another stock worth Rs 71,500 was seized from one more shop in the same area. The FDA is also planning a crackdown on shopkeepers who mix papaya or banana pulp in mango juice. FDA's joint commissioner (Mum) Suhas Choudhari said cases will be registered under the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act. Citizens can alert the FDA about such rackets on 2659-0686 or fax 26591959 —Yogesh Naik I TNN
Popular Posts
-
Two years ago, Sudhakar Sawardkar was a healthy 36-year-old, who worked as head of administration at a tech-manufacturing firm. It...
-
"How to disable a STOLEN mobile phone? To check your Mobile phone's serial number, key in the following digits on your phone: * # 0...
-
The monsoon continues its march across India, bringing smiles to farmers and frowns to some, like transporters. On Sunday, (from left)...
-
We asked readers if the BMC should have focused on conservation and ecology, and not just beautification, in the Powai Lake revamp. Here are...
-
Fire claims 5 kids, mother critical TIMES NEWS NETWORK Thane: Five children of a family died after their house caught fire in Bhiwan...
-
How Much Sleep Do We Need? Between the seventh and eighth hour is when we get almost an hour of REM (rapid eye movement) sleep, the t...
-
Mumbai: If the health of a city can be measured by comparing its tree cover with its population then Mumbai needs an urgent green transp...
-
57 die in rain, floods in India Send by e-mail Save Print ...
-
by invitation BEYOND N-DEAL Biz opportunities to reduce risk SOON India will move ahead with the long-awaited 123 nuclear deal. But do the ...
-
A pencil sketch by one of the participants in the Friends of the Environment art competition. Photo: Courtesy of ITREB Pakistan In Islam,...
Posts
0 comments:
Post a Comment