Oil Adulteration

Authorities seized over 3,000 kg of 'adulterated' ghee during a raid at a facility in Gujarat's Navsari on Sunday. They also confiscated palm oil, which is believed to have been mixed with the ghee to cut costs.

The Food and Safety Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) often shares simple ways to check for food adulteration at home. Here are 5 tests you should not miss.

The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) shared a video on their Instagram on how to check the purity of your oil at home.

FSSAI released a new order to prohibit mixing of mustard oil with other edible oils to keep a check on sale of adulterated cooking oil for domestic consumption.

Fresh turmeric has an earthy and peppery flavour and a slightly bitter taste. When used in cooking or just consumed along with warm water, you may find it more effective and beneficial than turmeric powder.

Over the years, we've read reams about the murky olive oil world; olive oils being mangled with adulteration, misleadingly labelled et al. Hopefully, this article will help sift a bit of the wheat from the chaff.

Between revelations by Italian police in December linking organized crime to 7,000 tons of counterfeit olive oil, and an estimated four-fold increase in adulterated extra virgin following the dismal 2014 olive harvest, there is no denying that fraud remains rampant.

Over 68 per cent of milk in the country does not conform to standards laid down by the food regulator and the most common adulterant found in it is detergent, caustic soda, glucose, white paint and refined oil considered "very hazardous" which could cause serious ailments, the Lok Sabha was informed today.

Licenses of 150 fuel retail outlets across India have been terminated for malpractices like under-measurement and adulteration of transport fuels.

A potentially harmful oil called 'gutter oil' has made its way to Hong Kong and investigators fear that this oil has been used to make some of the local favourites there - including dumplings, pastries and pineapple buns. The oil, which originates from...

Large quantities of synthetic milk and spurious edible oil have been seized in raids conducted during the past fortnight from Aligarh and the adjoining districts of Etah and Hathras, Food and Drug Authority said today.

Maharashtra BJP today demanded that a CBI probe should be ordered into the murder of additional collector Yashwant Sonawane by oil adulteration mafia.     A delegation of BJP leaders led by Eknath Khadse met the Governor K Sankaranarayanan today and put forward the demand.     Khadse also demanded a white pap...

The raids on the oil mafia in Maharashtra, triggered by the murder of Additional Collector Yashwant Sonawane, continued through the night. In fact the raids are still on in the Kurla area of Mumbai and in Akola district.Nearly 200 people have been taken into custody so far and close to 1250 litres of oil has been seized.The government launched a cr...

Manjunath Shanmugam, an executive with Indian Oil, was murdered for exposing an adulteration racket in Lakhimpur, Uttar Pradesh four years ago.

Authorities seized over 3,000 kg of 'adulterated' ghee during a raid at a facility in Gujarat's Navsari on Sunday. They also confiscated palm oil, which is believed to have been mixed with the ghee to cut costs.

The Food and Safety Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) often shares simple ways to check for food adulteration at home. Here are 5 tests you should not miss.

The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) shared a video on their Instagram on how to check the purity of your oil at home.

FSSAI released a new order to prohibit mixing of mustard oil with other edible oils to keep a check on sale of adulterated cooking oil for domestic consumption.

Fresh turmeric has an earthy and peppery flavour and a slightly bitter taste. When used in cooking or just consumed along with warm water, you may find it more effective and beneficial than turmeric powder.

Over the years, we've read reams about the murky olive oil world; olive oils being mangled with adulteration, misleadingly labelled et al. Hopefully, this article will help sift a bit of the wheat from the chaff.

Between revelations by Italian police in December linking organized crime to 7,000 tons of counterfeit olive oil, and an estimated four-fold increase in adulterated extra virgin following the dismal 2014 olive harvest, there is no denying that fraud remains rampant.

Over 68 per cent of milk in the country does not conform to standards laid down by the food regulator and the most common adulterant found in it is detergent, caustic soda, glucose, white paint and refined oil considered "very hazardous" which could cause serious ailments, the Lok Sabha was informed today.

Licenses of 150 fuel retail outlets across India have been terminated for malpractices like under-measurement and adulteration of transport fuels.

A potentially harmful oil called 'gutter oil' has made its way to Hong Kong and investigators fear that this oil has been used to make some of the local favourites there - including dumplings, pastries and pineapple buns. The oil, which originates from...

Large quantities of synthetic milk and spurious edible oil have been seized in raids conducted during the past fortnight from Aligarh and the adjoining districts of Etah and Hathras, Food and Drug Authority said today.

Maharashtra BJP today demanded that a CBI probe should be ordered into the murder of additional collector Yashwant Sonawane by oil adulteration mafia.     A delegation of BJP leaders led by Eknath Khadse met the Governor K Sankaranarayanan today and put forward the demand.     Khadse also demanded a white pap...

The raids on the oil mafia in Maharashtra, triggered by the murder of Additional Collector Yashwant Sonawane, continued through the night. In fact the raids are still on in the Kurla area of Mumbai and in Akola district.Nearly 200 people have been taken into custody so far and close to 1250 litres of oil has been seized.The government launched a cr...

Manjunath Shanmugam, an executive with Indian Oil, was murdered for exposing an adulteration racket in Lakhimpur, Uttar Pradesh four years ago.