After years of debate, FSSAI has chosen to go with a controversial 5-star system to rate the nutritional value of packaged foods. Now it must figure out how to generate consumer awareness, buy-in from industry, and set nutritional thresholds for its new system. India’s food industry is batting for the regulator’s decision to paste ‘health …
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When corporate responsibility is used correctly it can be a tremendous force for good. However, too often in the past, it has been a cynical attempt to simply sell more products. The Ukraine crisis has revealed just how powerful real corporate social responsibility can be. In a surprising, organic show of unity, everyone from the …
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You may have read news stories about a link between air pollution and neurodegenerative conditions like Alzheimer’s disease. And in a landmark study published in The Lancet, air pollution was named as one of 12 important ‘modifiable’ risk factors for dementia. But what’s the nature of this link? Does higher exposure to air pollutants lead to …
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Synopsis Officials in the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) said the social audit will begin with public sector undertakings (PSUs) and then extended to all the corporate entities. One of the officials said markets regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has already mandated Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) to work on …
Half of the blood samples showed traces of PET plastic, widely used to make drink bottles Scientists have discovered microplastics in human blood for the first time, warning that the ubiquitous particles could also be making their way into organs. The tiny pieces of mostly invisible plastic have already been found almost everywhere else on …
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