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A Food And Beverage News Special
April 26, 2008

Ensure quality standards are clear & achievable
Indian food ingredient industry is currently doing business under the existing Prevention of Food Adulteration Laws which are more stringent as compared to Codex standards,

Need to promote functional foods health benefits
Indian food industry is worth about Rs 4,00,000 crores ($100 billion) as opposed to the US food industry is worth over $ 600 billion. While Indian food industry has very tiny portion of functional foods, in the US,

IMM 2008 to focus on quality wheat flour and end products
Ingredients, which are not hazardous at the same time, enhance the quality of end products should be promoted, says Biren Pilani

Flour fortification - Need of the hour
The problem of malnutrition in Tamil Nadu, as identified by Dr M S Swaminathan, encompasses a spectrum of deficiencies of which the most devastating is a deficiency of one or more of the three micronutrients,

Dietary fibre as functional food
Dietary fibre doubles as functional food by ensuring delivery of dietary fibre to consumers in a form that is convenient to them, taste and texture acceptable to them and becomes part of their life style.

Avesthagen's Teestar bioactive ingredient
Avesthagen Limited is engaged in the production of the clinically validated botanical bioactive ingredients for the food sector.

Kamani focus on health and nutrition
In fact carbohydrates and not the fats are more harmful and responsible for CVD, obesity/overweight, diabetes - the most commonly prevalent health issues, said Dr K D Yadav, Kamani Oil Industries

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