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FSSAI heightens food safety vigilance during festival season | India News

NEW DELHI: Food safety regulators Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has asked its senior officials to exercise strict food safety vigilance on the manufacturing and sale of food items meant to be consumed during the ongoing festival seasonparticularly “kuttu atta, singhada atta, bhagar/samak ke chawal (barnyard millet)” under their respective jurisdictions.
They have been asked to conduct more frequent inspections and sampling drives to ensure that such products are safe to consume and strictly adhere to the respective food product standards.
Many people opt for fasting during the festival period and demand for food
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Blinken says all of Gaza facing “acute food insecurity” as US pushes Netanyahu over his war plans

Tel Aviv — The entire population of the war-torn Gaza Strip — some 2.3 million people — is now living through “severe levels of acute food insecurity,” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday. He spoke amid increasing signs that the US government is losing patience with Israel over its handling of the war with Hamas.

“According to the most respected measure of these things, 100% of the population in Gaza is at severe levels of acute food insecurity. That’s the first time an entire population has been so classified,” said Blinken during an official visit to the

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Going out with a bang: Children’s Food Bowl Festival

After holding countless events across the past two years focusing on educating children across Greater Shepparton on healthy eating habits, imparting practical meal preparation skills and generally encouraging healthy attitudes towards food, Ms Thorp is set to finish her role in July.

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Cardboard boxes are now ‘like gold’ to food banks struggling to keep up with demand

The cost of cardboard is the latest struggle London’s food bank is adding to its list of problems, with ever-increasing demand putting pressure on the supply of boxes used to store and distribute food.

It’s yet another example of the increasingly tight situation food banks across the country are finding themselves in as inflation and other factors drive up the cost of food, rent, and even cardboard, said London Food Bank co-director Glen Pearson.

“The usage of these boxes and the need for the boxes has doubled,” Pearson said of the past two years. “It just shows you how the

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