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  • World Food Safety Day: Mistakes that are making your food unsafe

    World Food Safety Day: Mistakes that are making your food unsafe

    We are celebrating World Food Safety Day for the first time ever. On this occasion, we tell you how small steps can help you keep your food safe and healthy.

  • Ways to save yourself from contaminants you don't know about

    Ways to save yourself from contaminants you don't know about

    In your daily life you interact with so many bacteria and germs that can cause infections, cold and flu along with other respiratory diseases. Here are simple ways to counter contraction with these germs.

  • Children in 3 states were given contaminated polio vaccine, finds the health department

    Children in 3 states were given contaminated polio vaccine, finds the health department

    In an unfortunate turn up of event, children from certain areas in Maharashtra, Telengana and Uttar Pradesh were administered polio vaccines contaminated with type-2 polio virus, said the health ministry.

  • OCD: The libido ruiner you didn't know about

    OCD: The libido ruiner you didn't know about

    Know why people suffering from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder have a troubled sex life and ways to cope with the issue.

  • Study finds restaurant meals as the reason behind food-borne illnesses in kids

    Study finds restaurant meals as the reason behind food-borne illnesses in kids

    Once contaminated food enters the body, some germs release toxins that can cause diarrhoea, vomiting and sometimes fever or muscle aches.

  • World Water Day 2018: 6 shocking facts about drinking water

    World Water Day 2018: 6 shocking facts about drinking water

    Did you know, 2.1 billion people across the world lack access to safe drinking water?

  • 90 percent of bottled water from leading brands is contaminated by microplastics

    90 percent of bottled water from leading brands is contaminated by microplastics

    Indian bottling companies on Friday contested the findings, saying they enforce strict quality control.

  • Greenhouse technology is effective for contamination-free vegetables, better output

    Greenhouse technology is effective for contamination-free vegetables, better output

    "Vegetables cultivated at controlled environment facilities are healthy and safe since they are grown with optimum use of nutrients, fixed temperature and without outside contamination."

  • '5-second rule' is wrong; it's not safe to eat food dropped on floor

    '5-second rule' is wrong; it's not safe to eat food dropped on floor

    Food, dropped on the floor, is not safe to eat, however quickly you pick it up, warns a new study that debunks the notion that it is okay to eat it within 5 seconds

  • Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) to crack down on vendors selling biriyani with non-permitted food colours

    Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) to crack down on vendors selling biriyani with non-permitted food colours

    Following its scanner on bread laced with harmful chemicals, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has now trained its gun on the use of non-permitted synthetic food colours in the celebrated biriyani.

  • Tests show that bakery products are safe: Bengal bakeries

    Tests show that bakery products are safe: Bengal bakeries

    Bakery associations in West Bengal on Tuesday claimed tests conducted on bread samples produced by around 4,000 establishments in the state have revealed their products are 'safe' for consumption.

  • AIIMS director says there is no need to panic about chemicals in bread

    AIIMS director says there is no need to panic about chemicals in bread

    There is no need to panic about the presence of chemicals like potassium bromate and potassium iodate in the pre-packaged daily bread, but excess of anything should be avoided, AIIMS director M.C. Mishra said on Thursday

  • Bread makers assure that they will not use potassium bromate or iodate in products

    Bread makers assure that they will not use potassium bromate or iodate in products

    Leading bread makers on Thursday asserted that they will give up the use of chemicals like potassium bromate and iodate, in wake of a study warning these chemicals may cause cancer, in their products.

  • Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) orders testing of bread samples after CSE's study

    Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) orders testing of bread samples after CSE's study

    The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has ordered sampling and testing of bread products across the city after a study by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) reportedly found certain harmful chemicals in bread, buns, pavs, pizza bases and other commercially-sold bakery items, an official said on Wednesday

  • Only permissible chemicals used for bakery products: Assocham

    Only permissible chemicals used for bakery products: Assocham

    'Potassium bromate was being used with the permission of the food regulator,' said industry body Assocham.

  • This is what the doctors and nutritionists have to say about carcinogens in your bread

    This is what the doctors and nutritionists have to say about carcinogens in your bread

    In wake of a CSE study which reportedly found certain harmful chemicals in bread, buns, pavs, pizza bases and other commercially-sold bakery items, doctors and nutritionists have called for stricter regulation of the industry.

  • CSE says the bread you eat is laced with hazardous chemicals like potassium bromate or iodate

    CSE says the bread you eat is laced with hazardous chemicals like potassium bromate or iodate

    The study, conducted by CSE's pollution monitoring laboratory, said Indian bread manufacturers use potassium bromate and potassium iodate for treating flour. 'The use of these chemicals in the bread-making sector has been banned in many countries because they are listed as hazardous for public health: one is a category 2B carcinogen and the other could trigger thyroid disorders.

  • Now you can eat truffles without being scared of radioactive contamination

    Now you can eat truffles without being scared of radioactive contamination

    Burgundy or summer truffles - fungi that range among the most expensive foods in the world - are safe to eat, say researchers, suggesting that these truffles found mostly in central Europe contain only negligible amounts of radioactive compounds.

  • Someone found plastic in a Snickers bar and Mars Inc. recalled products from 55 countries!

    Someone found plastic in a Snickers bar and Mars Inc. recalled products from 55 countries!

    According to the press release on their website, a small piece of plastic was found in one Snickers bar purchased in Germany and they have decided to voluntarily recall a selection of Snickers, Mars, Milky Way and Celebrations products manufactured in their Netherlands factory.

  • Mouthing in children - why you should be concerned

    Mouthing in children - why you should be concerned

    The habit of babies trying to explore everything with their mouth could be harmful!

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  • Rapid blood test predicts COVID-19 patients at high risk of severe disease: Study
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  • A glass of wine a day may up your risk of atrial fibrillation by 16 per cent: Obesity plays a role too

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