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APEDA director 1st Indian chairmain of CODEX

Sanjay Dave, Director APEDA, has become the first Indian to be elected as the Chairman of Codex Alimentarius Commission — a UN body for food safety standards. The Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) is the government's export promotion agency for.....

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Area under organic farming rises to 4.4 million hectares

Area under organic farming has grown many-fold in six years to 2009-10 in India on the back of thrust given to the chemical-free mode of cultivation. From 42,000 hectares under organic certification in 2003-04, more than 4.4 million hectares area was under organic certification in the country as on March 2010, an official.....

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Scholars to analyze halal food standards at Riyadh conference

The Kingdom will host the first ever international conference on halal food in the Saudi capital on Feb. 12, the Saudi Food and Drug Authority announced here on Tuesday.Speaking at a press conference held at SFDA headquarters on Tuesday, the organization's Chairman Mohammed Al-Kanhal said Custodian of the.....

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EU recalls and bans Egyptian sprout seeds

The European Union today ordered the recall and ban of certain types of seeds from Egypt after a new report from its food safety agency further detailed a link between the products and Escherichia coli outbreaks in Germany and France. The European Commission said in a press release today that the action is aimed at ensuring that all lots of.....