tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62731347301036179212024-03-19T13:15:06.872+05:30Food TechnologyDr. V.H . Pottyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11500499095968478516noreply@blogger.comBlogger865125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6273134730103617921.post-21265325073250086002024-02-18T18:50:00.001+05:302024-02-18T18:50:27.647+05:30DHL: Duty Payment for Your Shipment #7140012563<div style="margin:0px auto;text-align:center;font-size:12px;color:#A2A2A2;padding-bottom:6px"> ## Por favor no escriba debajo de esta linea ## </div> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr> <td> <table width="100%"> <tbody><tr> <td style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; color: #fff; line-height: 1.5em;font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; width: 100%;text-align: center;background: #98c332; padding:8px; margin:4px"> <style>.zd_link {color:#FFF;}</style><a href="https://bestsoftware.zendesk.com/hc/requests/1598119" class="zd_link">Ticket #1598119: DHL: Duty Payment for Your Shipment #7140012563</a> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:center;padding-left:4px"> <table width="100%"> <tbody><tr> <td style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial;font-style:normal; font-variant:normal;padding:8px;text-align:left"> <p dir="auto"></p><div style="margin-top: 25px" data-version="2"><table class="zd-liquid-comment" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" role="presentation"> <tbody><tr> <td width="100%" style="padding: 15px 0; border-top: 1px dotted #c5c5c5;"> <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="table-layout:fixed;" role="presentation"> <tbody><tr> <td width="100%" style="padding: 0; margin: 0;" valign="top"> <p style="font-family:'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Sans',Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding: 0; color:#1b1d1e;" dir="auto"> <strong>sharfharef</strong> </p> <p style="font-family:'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Sans',Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 0; padding: 0; color:#bbbbbb;" dir="auto"> 18 feb 2024, 8:20 a. m. GMT-5 </p> <div class="zd-comment" dir="auto" style="color: #2b2e2f; line-height: 22px; margin: 15px 0;"><p style="color: #2b2e2f; line-height: 22px; margin: 15px 0;" dir="auto"><strong><img alt="On Demand Delivery - E-commerce - DHL Express Belgium" src="https://www.dhlexpress.be/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Picture5-e1523612615883.png" style="width: 901px; height: 185px; max-width: 100%; margin: 81.62px 0px;"></strong></p><p style="color: #2b2e2f; line-height: 22px; margin: 15px 0;" dir="auto"><strong>Dear Customer,</strong><br><br><strong>DHL Last note: This email informs you that your shipment is still waiting to be processed.</strong></p><p style="color: #2b2e2f; line-height: 22px; margin: 15px 0;" dir="auto">Your package could not be delivered on 19.02.2024 because no duty was paid (2.95)</p><p style="color: #2b2e2f; line-height: 22px; margin: 15px 0;" dir="auto"> </p><p style="color: #2b2e2f; line-height: 22px; margin: 15px 0;" dir="auto">Order number: <a href="https://bestsoftware.zendesk.com/hc/requests/7140012563" target="_blank" rel="ticket">#7140012563</a><br>Total : <strong>(2.95)</strong><br>Delivery is planned between: 28<strong>.02.2024- 05.03.2024</strong></p><p style="color: #2b2e2f; line-height: 22px; margin: 15px 0;" dir="auto"><br><br><a href="https://cyclesabir.youcan.store/" rel="noreferrer">• Click here to confirm sending the shipment</a></p><p style="color: #2b2e2f; line-height: 22px; margin: 15px 0;" dir="auto"> </p><p style="color: #2b2e2f; line-height: 22px; margin: 15px 0;" dir="auto"><br>Thank you for your trust,</p><p style="color: #2b2e2f; line-height: 22px; margin: 15px 0;" dir="auto"> </p><p style="color: #2b2e2f; line-height: 22px; margin: 15px 0;" dir="auto"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">DHL EXPRESS WORLDWIDE DELIVERY 2024</span></p><p style="color: #2b2e2f; line-height: 22px; margin: 15px 0;" dir="auto"><br></p><p style="color: #2b2e2f; line-height: 22px; margin: 15px 0;" dir="auto"><br></p><p style="color: #2b2e2f; line-height: 22px; margin: 15px 0;" dir="auto"><br></p><div style="flex: 0 1 auto; flex-flow: row wrap; color: rgb(25, 25, 25); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; padding-top: 3.2rem; padding-bottom: 3.2rem; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; display: flex; white-space: normal; box-sizing: border-box; orphans: 2; widows: 2; transition-duration: 0.01ms !important; animation-duration: 0.01ms !important; animation-iteration-count: 1 !important; justify-content: space-between; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px auto;"><ul style="width: 239.39px; max-width: 20%; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.01ms !important; animation-duration: 0.01ms !important; animation-iteration-count: 1 !important; flex-basis: 20%; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 2.1rem 2.1rem 0px; list-style: disc inside;" dir="auto"><li style="font-weight: 700; list-style-type: none; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0.7rem 0px 1.4rem;"><h3 style="font-weight: 700; display: flex; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.01ms !important; animation-duration: 0.01ms !important; animation-iteration-count: 1 !important; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; color: #333; text-transform: none; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" dir="auto">Quick Links</h3></li><li style="list-style-type: none; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0.7rem 0px 1.4rem;"><a href="https://www.dhl.com/de-de/home/kundenservice.html" style="transition: color 0.2s; width: 218.39px; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" rel="noreferrer">Customer service</a></li><li style="list-style-type: none; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0.7rem 0px 1.4rem;"><a href="https://www.dhl.com/de-de/home/anmelden.html" style="transition: color 0.2s; width: 218.39px; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" rel="noreferrer">Login to the customer portal</a></li><li style="list-style-type: none; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0.7rem 0px 1.4rem;"><a href="https://www.dhl.com/global-en/home/digital-partners-integrations.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="transition: color 0.2s; width: 218.39px; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Digital Partners & Integrations</a></li><li style="list-style-type: none; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0.7rem 0px 1.4rem;"><a href="https://developer.dhl/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="transition: color 0.2s; width: 218.39px; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Developer Portal<span> </span></a></li><li style="list-style-type: none; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0.7rem 0px 1.4rem;"><a href="https://www.dhl.com/de-de/home/fordern-sie-ein-angebot-an.html" style="transition: color 0.2s; width: 218.39px; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" rel="noreferrer">Request a quote</a></li><li style="list-style-type: none; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0.7rem 0px 1.4rem;"><a href="https://www.dhl.com/de-de/home/dhl-fuer-geschaeftskunden.html" style="transition: color 0.2s; width: 218.39px; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" rel="noreferrer">DHL for Business Customers</a></li></ul><span style="top: -8.4rem; display: block; visibility: hidden; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span><ul style="width: 239.39px; max-width: 20%; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.01ms !important; animation-duration: 0.01ms !important; animation-iteration-count: 1 !important; flex-basis: 20%; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 2.1rem 2.1rem 0px; list-style: disc inside;" dir="auto"><li style="font-weight: 700; list-style-type: none; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0.7rem 0px 1.4rem;"><h3 style="font-weight: 700; display: flex; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.01ms !important; animation-duration: 0.01ms !important; animation-iteration-count: 1 !important; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; color: #333; text-transform: none; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" dir="auto">Our Divisions</h3></li><li style="list-style-type: none; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0.7rem 0px 1.4rem;"><a href="https://www.dhl.com/de-de/home/express.html" style="transition: color 0.2s; width: 218.39px; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" rel="noreferrer">DHL Express</a></li><li style="list-style-type: none; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0.7rem 0px 1.4rem;"><a href="https://www.dhl.com/de-de/home/global-forwarding.html" style="transition: color 0.2s; width: 218.39px; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" rel="noreferrer">DHL Global Forwarding</a></li><li style="list-style-type: none; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0.7rem 0px 1.4rem;"><a href="https://www.dhl.com/de-de/home/freight.html" style="transition: color 0.2s; width: 218.39px; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" rel="noreferrer">DHL Freight</a></li><li style="list-style-type: none; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0.7rem 0px 1.4rem;"><a href="https://www.dhl.com/de-de/home/parcel.html" style="transition: color 0.2s; width: 218.39px; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" rel="noreferrer">DHL Parcel</a></li><li style="list-style-type: none; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0.7rem 0px 1.4rem;"><a href="https://www.dhl.com/de-de/home/supply-chain.html" style="transition: color 0.2s; width: 218.39px; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" rel="noreferrer">DHL Supply Chain</a></li><li style="list-style-type: none; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0.7rem 0px 1.4rem;"><a href="https://www.dhl.de/en/privatkunden.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="transition: color 0.2s; width: 218.39px; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">DHL Post & Parcel<span> </span></a></li><li style="list-style-type: none; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0.7rem 0px 1.4rem;"><a href="https://www.dhl.com/de-de/home/other-global-divisions.html" style="transition: color 0.2s; width: 218.39px; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" rel="noreferrer">Other Worldwide Divisions</a></li></ul><span style="top: -8.4rem; display: block; visibility: hidden; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span><ul style="width: 239.39px; max-width: 20%; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.01ms !important; animation-duration: 0.01ms !important; animation-iteration-count: 1 !important; flex-basis: 20%; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 2.1rem 2.1rem 0px; list-style: disc inside;" dir="auto"><li style="font-weight: 700; list-style-type: none; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0.7rem 0px 1.4rem;"><h3 style="font-weight: 700; display: flex; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.01ms !important; animation-duration: 0.01ms !important; animation-iteration-count: 1 !important; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; color: #333; text-transform: none; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" dir="auto">Industries</h3></li><li style="list-style-type: none; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0.7rem 0px 1.4rem;"><a href="https://www.dhl.com/de-de/home/branchen/automobilbranche.html" style="transition: color 0.2s; width: 218.39px; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" rel="noreferrer">Automotive industry</a></li><li style="list-style-type: none; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0.7rem 0px 1.4rem;"><a href="https://www.dhl.com/de-de/home/branchen/chemie.html" style="transition: color 0.2s; width: 218.39px; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" rel="noreferrer">Chemistry</a></li><li style="list-style-type: none; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0.7rem 0px 1.4rem;"><a href="https://www.dhl.com/de-de/home/branchen/konsumgueter.html" style="transition: color 0.2s; width: 218.39px; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" rel="noreferrer">Consumer goods</a></li><li style="list-style-type: none; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0.7rem 0px 1.4rem;"><a href="https://www.dhl.com/de-de/home/branchen/energie.html" style="transition: color 0.2s; width: 218.39px; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" rel="noreferrer">Energy</a></li><li style="list-style-type: none; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0.7rem 0px 1.4rem;"><a href="https://www.dhl.com/de-de/home/branchen/engineering-and-manufacturing.html" style="transition: color 0.2s; width: 218.39px; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" rel="noreferrer">Mechanical and plant engineering</a></li><li style="list-style-type: none; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0.7rem 0px 1.4rem;"><a href="https://www.dhl.com/de-de/home/branchen/life-sciences-und-healthcare.html" style="transition: color 0.2s; width: 218.39px; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" rel="noreferrer">Life Sciences and Healthcare</a></li><li style="list-style-type: none; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0.7rem 0px 1.4rem;"><a href="https://www.dhl.com/de-de/home/branchen/oeffentlicher-sektor.html" style="transition: color 0.2s; width: 218.39px; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" rel="noreferrer">Public sector</a></li><li style="list-style-type: none; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0.7rem 0px 1.4rem;"><a href="https://www.dhl.com/de-de/home/branchen/einzelhandel.html" style="transition: color 0.2s; width: 218.39px; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" rel="noreferrer">Retail</a></li><li style="list-style-type: none; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0.7rem 0px 1.4rem;"><a href="https://www.dhl.com/de-de/home/branchen/technologie.html" style="transition: color 0.2s; width: 218.39px; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" rel="noreferrer">Technology</a></li></ul><span style="top: -8.4rem; display: block; visibility: hidden; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span><ul style="width: 239.39px; max-width: 20%; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.01ms !important; animation-duration: 0.01ms !important; animation-iteration-count: 1 !important; flex-basis: 20%; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 2.1rem 0px 0px; list-style: disc inside;" dir="auto"><li style="font-weight: 700; list-style-type: none; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0.7rem 0px 1.4rem;"><h3 style="font-weight: 700; display: flex; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.01ms !important; animation-duration: 0.01ms !important; animation-iteration-count: 1 !important; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; color: #333; text-transform: none; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" dir="auto">Company Information</h3></li><li style="list-style-type: none; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0.7rem 0px 1.4rem;"><a href="https://www.dhl.com/de-de/home/ueber-uns.html" style="transition: color 0.2s; width: 218.39px; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" rel="noreferrer">About DHL</a></li><li style="list-style-type: none; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0.7rem 0px 1.4rem;"><a href="https://www.dhl.com/global-en/delivered.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="transition: color 0.2s; width: 218.39px; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Delivered<span> </span></a></li><li style="list-style-type: none; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0.7rem 0px 1.4rem;"><a href="https://www.dhl.com/de-de/home/jobs-und-karriere.html" style="transition: color 0.2s; width: 218.39px; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" rel="noreferrer">Jobs and Careers</a></li><li style="list-style-type: none; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0.7rem 0px 1.4rem;"><a href="https://www.dhl.com/de-de/home/presse.html" style="transition: color 0.2s; width: 218.39px; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" rel="noreferrer">Press center</a></li><li style="list-style-type: none; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0.7rem 0px 1.4rem;"><a href="https://www.dpdhl.com/en/investors.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="transition: color 0.2s; width: 218.39px; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Investors<span> </span></a></li><li style="list-style-type: none; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0.7rem 0px 1.4rem;"><a href="https://www.dhl.com/de-de/home/ueber-uns/nachhaltigkeit.html" style="transition: color 0.2s; width: 218.39px; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" rel="noreferrer">Sustainability</a></li><li style="list-style-type: none; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0.7rem 0px 1.4rem;"><a href="https://www.dhl.com/de-de/home/einblicke-und-innovationen.html" style="transition: color 0.2s; width: 218.39px; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" rel="noreferrer">Insights & Innovations</a></li><li style="list-style-type: none; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0.7rem 0px 1.4rem;"><a href="https://www.dhl.com/de-de/home/ueber-uns/partnerschaften.html" style="transition: color 0.2s; 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Pottyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11500499095968478516noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6273134730103617921.post-70105815468818690242024-02-18T05:09:00.001+05:302024-02-18T05:09:31.802+05:30DHL: Duty Payment for Your Shipment #7140012563<p><strong><img class="n3VNCb KAlRDb" style="margin: 81.62px 0px; width: 901px; height: 185px;" alt="On Demand Delivery - E-commerce - DHL Express Belgium" src="https://www.dhlexpress.be/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Picture5-e1523612615883.png" data-noaft="1" width="1074" height="173"></strong></p> <p><strong>Dear Customer,</strong><br><br><strong>DHL Last note: This email informs you that your shipment is still waiting to be processed.</strong></p> <p>Your package could not be delivered on 19.02.2024 because no duty was paid (2.95)</p> <p> </p> <p>Order number: #7140012563<br>Total : <strong>(2.95)</strong><br>Delivery is planned between: 28<strong>.02.2024- 05.03.2024</strong></p> <p><br><br><a href="https://cyclesabir.youcan.store/">• Click here to confirm sending the shipment</a></p> <p> </p> <p><br>Thank you for your trust,</p> <p> </p> <p><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">DHL EXPRESS WORLDWIDE DELIVERY 2024</span></p><p> <br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p> <div class="c-voc-footer--sitemap l-grid component-wide" style="margin: 0px auto; 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padding: 0px 2.1rem 2.1rem 0px; width: 239.39px; list-style-type: disc; list-style-position: inside; max-width: 20%; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.01ms !important; animation-duration: 0.01ms !important; animation-iteration-count: 1 !important; flex-basis: 20%; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"><li class="group-heading " style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.7rem 0px 1.4rem; font-weight: 700; list-style-type: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"> <h3 class="c-voc-footer--sitemap-section-group-heading-title level5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Delivery, Verdana, sans-serif; font-weight: 700; display: flex; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.01ms !important; animation-duration: 0.01ms !important; animation-iteration-count: 1 !important; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; 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margin-inline: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"> <a class="link link-light-grey has-icon" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition:color 0.2s; width: 218.39px; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; position: relative; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" href="https://www.dhl.com/de-de/home/global-forwarding.html" _msthash="238" _msttexthash="399126" data-tracking='{"component":"dhl/components/elements/footer-link-element","name":"DHL Global Forwarding","topic":"footer"}'>DHL Global Forwarding</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.7rem 0px 1.4rem; list-style-type: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"> <a class="link link-light-grey has-icon" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition:color 0.2s; width: 218.39px; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; position: relative; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" href="https://www.dhl.com/de-de/home/freight.html" _msthash="239" _msttexthash="144625" data-tracking='{"component":"dhl/components/elements/footer-link-element","name":"DHL Freight","topic":"footer"}'>DHL Freight</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.7rem 0px 1.4rem; list-style-type: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"> <a class="link link-light-grey has-icon" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition:color 0.2s; width: 218.39px; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; position: relative; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" href="https://www.dhl.com/de-de/home/parcel.html" _msthash="240" _msttexthash="120796" data-tracking='{"component":"dhl/components/elements/footer-link-element","name":"DHL Parcel","topic":"footer"}'>DHL Parcel</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.7rem 0px 1.4rem; list-style-type: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"> <a class="link link-light-grey has-icon" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition:color 0.2s; width: 218.39px; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; position: relative; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" href="https://www.dhl.com/de-de/home/supply-chain.html" _msthash="241" _msttexthash="243893" data-tracking='{"component":"dhl/components/elements/footer-link-element","name":"DHL Supply Chain","topic":"footer"}'>DHL Supply Chain</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.7rem 0px 1.4rem; list-style-type: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"> <a class="link link-light-grey link-external has-icon" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition:color 0.2s; width: 218.39px; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; position: relative; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" href="https://www.dhl.de/en/privatkunden.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" _msthash="242" _msttexthash="230464" data-tracking='{"component":"dhl/components/elements/footer-link-element","name":"DHL Post and Parcel","topic":"footer"}'>DHL Post & Parcel<span> </span></a></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.7rem 0px 1.4rem; list-style-type: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"> <a class="link link-light-grey has-icon" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition:color 0.2s; width: 218.39px; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; position: relative; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" href="https://www.dhl.com/de-de/home/other-global-divisions.html" _msthash="243" _msttexthash="569478" data-tracking='{"component":"dhl/components/elements/footer-link-element","name":"Other Global Divisions","topic":"footer"}'>Other Worldwide Divisions</a></li></ul><span class="link-anchor" id="footer-link-container-par_footer_link_section__649098010" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; top: -8.4rem; display: block; visibility: hidden; position: relative; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"></span> <ul class="c-voc-footer--sitemap-section l-grid--w-100pc-s l-grid--w-50pc-s-m l-grid--w-50pc-s-l l-grid--w-50pc-m-s l-grid--w-20pc-m-m" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 2.1rem 2.1rem 0px; width: 239.39px; list-style-type: disc; list-style-position: inside; max-width: 20%; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.01ms !important; animation-duration: 0.01ms !important; animation-iteration-count: 1 !important; flex-basis: 20%; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"><li class="group-heading " style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.7rem 0px 1.4rem; font-weight: 700; list-style-type: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"> <h3 class="c-voc-footer--sitemap-section-group-heading-title level5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Delivery, Verdana, sans-serif; font-weight: 700; display: flex; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.01ms !important; animation-duration: 0.01ms !important; animation-iteration-count: 1 !important; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" _msthash="244" _msttexthash="161525">Industries</h3></li> <li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.7rem 0px 1.4rem; list-style-type: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"> <a class="link link-light-grey has-icon" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition:color 0.2s; width: 218.39px; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; position: relative; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" href="https://www.dhl.com/de-de/home/branchen/automobilbranche.html" _msthash="245" _msttexthash="402194" data-tracking='{"component":"dhl/components/elements/footer-link-element","name":"Auto-Mobility","topic":"footer"}'>Automotive industry</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.7rem 0px 1.4rem; list-style-type: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"> <a class="link link-light-grey has-icon" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition:color 0.2s; width: 218.39px; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; position: relative; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" href="https://www.dhl.com/de-de/home/branchen/chemie.html" _msthash="246" _msttexthash="139802" data-tracking='{"component":"dhl/components/elements/footer-link-element","name":"Chemicals","topic":"footer"}'>Chemistry</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.7rem 0px 1.4rem; list-style-type: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"> <a class="link link-light-grey has-icon" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition:color 0.2s; width: 218.39px; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; position: relative; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" href="https://www.dhl.com/de-de/home/branchen/konsumgueter.html" _msthash="247" _msttexthash="236522" data-tracking='{"component":"dhl/components/elements/footer-link-element","name":"Consumer","topic":"footer"}'>Consumer goods</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.7rem 0px 1.4rem; list-style-type: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"> <a class="link link-light-grey has-icon" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition:color 0.2s; width: 218.39px; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; position: relative; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" href="https://www.dhl.com/de-de/home/branchen/energie.html" _msthash="248" _msttexthash="77961" data-tracking='{"component":"dhl/components/elements/footer-link-element","name":"Energy","topic":"footer"}'>Energy</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.7rem 0px 1.4rem; list-style-type: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"> <a class="link link-light-grey has-icon" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition:color 0.2s; width: 218.39px; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; position: relative; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" href="https://www.dhl.com/de-de/home/branchen/engineering-and-manufacturing.html" _msthash="249" _msttexthash="831987" data-tracking='{"component":"dhl/components/elements/footer-link-element","name":"Engineering and Manufacturing","topic":"footer"}'>Mechanical and plant engineering</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.7rem 0px 1.4rem; list-style-type: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"> <a class="link link-light-grey has-icon" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition:color 0.2s; width: 218.39px; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; position: relative; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" href="https://www.dhl.com/de-de/home/branchen/life-sciences-und-healthcare.html" _msthash="250" _msttexthash="627107" data-tracking='{"component":"dhl/components/elements/footer-link-element","name":"Life Sciences and Healthcare","topic":"footer"}'>Life Sciences and Healthcare</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.7rem 0px 1.4rem; list-style-type: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"> <a class="link link-light-grey has-icon" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition:color 0.2s; width: 218.39px; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; position: relative; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" href="https://www.dhl.com/de-de/home/branchen/oeffentlicher-sektor.html" _msthash="251" _msttexthash="207870" data-tracking='{"component":"dhl/components/elements/footer-link-element","name":"Public Sector","topic":"footer"}'>Public sector</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.7rem 0px 1.4rem; list-style-type: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"> <a class="link link-light-grey has-icon" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition:color 0.2s; width: 218.39px; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; position: relative; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" href="https://www.dhl.com/de-de/home/branchen/einzelhandel.html" _msthash="252" _msttexthash="76011" data-tracking='{"component":"dhl/components/elements/footer-link-element","name":"Retail","topic":"footer"}'>Retail</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.7rem 0px 1.4rem; list-style-type: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"> <a class="link link-light-grey has-icon" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition:color 0.2s; width: 218.39px; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; position: relative; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" href="https://www.dhl.com/de-de/home/branchen/technologie.html" _msthash="253" _msttexthash="160004" data-tracking='{"component":"dhl/components/elements/footer-link-element","name":"Technology","topic":"footer"}'>Technology</a></li></ul><span class="link-anchor" id="footer-link-container-par_footer_link_section__1307971798" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; top: -8.4rem; display: block; visibility: hidden; position: relative; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"></span> <ul class="c-voc-footer--sitemap-section l-grid--w-100pc-s l-grid--w-50pc-s-m l-grid--w-50pc-s-l l-grid--w-50pc-m-s l-grid--w-20pc-m-m" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 2.1rem 0px 0px; width: 239.39px; list-style-type: disc; list-style-position: inside; max-width: 20%; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.01ms !important; animation-duration: 0.01ms !important; animation-iteration-count: 1 !important; flex-basis: 20%; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"><li class="group-heading " style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.7rem 0px 1.4rem; font-weight: 700; list-style-type: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"> <h3 class="c-voc-footer--sitemap-section-group-heading-title level5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Delivery, Verdana, sans-serif; font-weight: 700; display: flex; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.01ms !important; animation-duration: 0.01ms !important; animation-iteration-count: 1 !important; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" _msthash="254" _msttexthash="384943">Company Information</h3></li> <li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.7rem 0px 1.4rem; list-style-type: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"> <a class="link link-light-grey has-icon" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition:color 0.2s; width: 218.39px; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; position: relative; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" href="https://www.dhl.com/de-de/home/ueber-uns.html" _msthash="255" _msttexthash="97500" data-tracking='{"component":"dhl/components/elements/footer-link-element","name":"About DHL","topic":"footer"}'>About DHL</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.7rem 0px 1.4rem; list-style-type: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"> <a class="link link-light-grey link-external has-icon" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition:color 0.2s; width: 218.39px; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; position: relative; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" href="https://www.dhl.com/global-en/delivered.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" _msthash="256" _msttexthash="132756" data-tracking='{"component":"dhl/components/elements/footer-link-element","name":"Delivered","topic":"footer"}'>Delivered<span> </span></a></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.7rem 0px 1.4rem; list-style-type: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"> <a class="link link-light-grey has-icon" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition:color 0.2s; width: 218.39px; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; position: relative; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" href="https://www.dhl.com/de-de/home/jobs-und-karriere.html" _msthash="257" _msttexthash="251459" data-tracking='{"component":"dhl/components/elements/footer-link-element","name":"Careers","topic":"footer"}'>Jobs and Careers</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.7rem 0px 1.4rem; list-style-type: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"> <a class="link link-light-grey has-icon" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition:color 0.2s; width: 218.39px; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; position: relative; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" href="https://www.dhl.com/de-de/home/presse.html" _msthash="258" _msttexthash="183703" data-tracking='{"component":"dhl/components/elements/footer-link-element","name":"Press Center","topic":"footer"}'>Press center</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.7rem 0px 1.4rem; list-style-type: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"> <a class="link link-light-grey link-external has-icon" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition:color 0.2s; width: 218.39px; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; position: relative; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" href="https://www.dpdhl.com/en/investors.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" _msthash="259" _msttexthash="141492" data-tracking='{"component":"dhl/components/elements/footer-link-element","name":"Investors","topic":"footer"}'>Investors<span> </span></a></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.7rem 0px 1.4rem; list-style-type: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"> <a class="link link-light-grey has-icon" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition:color 0.2s; width: 218.39px; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; position: relative; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" href="https://www.dhl.com/de-de/home/ueber-uns/nachhaltigkeit.html" _msthash="260" _msttexthash="264251" data-tracking='{"component":"dhl/components/elements/footer-link-element","name":"Sustainability","topic":"footer"}'>Sustainability</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.7rem 0px 1.4rem; list-style-type: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"> <a class="link link-light-grey has-icon" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition:color 0.2s; width: 218.39px; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; position: relative; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; 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Pottyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11500499095968478516noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6273134730103617921.post-81138977905078855982016-11-09T16:28:00.001+05:302016-11-09T16:28:53.045+05:30Impact of food production and consumption on carbon emission-Why food is excluded from Paris agreement on climate change?<div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yiv7983967950"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478682899140_3423"><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478682899140_3422"><div id="yiv7983967950yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478672255460_22090"><span id="yiv7983967950yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478672255460_27106">Ratification of the Paris Agreement on greenhouse emission by India recently was in the news and by this the country, which together with China and the US contribute more than 42% of carbon emission, has clearly committed itself to make conscious efforts to reduce the environmental degradation by suitable ameliorative actions and programs. It may be recalled that the Paris Agreement within the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was aimed at dealing with greenhouse gases mitigation, adaptation and finance starting with the year 2020. 195 countries attending the 21st Conference of the Parties of UNFCCC in Paris on 12 December 2015 adopted by consensus agreement to be signed and ratified within an year. Accordingly 193 countries signed the Agreement on 22 nd April, 2016 in New York. This was followed by ratification of the same by 103 countries by November 4, 2016. A relevant question that was raised subsequent to the agreement was whether it will adversely impact on food security and health of people by taking proactive action on curbing greenhouse emissions through many means available to each country? </span></div><div id="yiv7983967950yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478672255460_22090"><span><br></span></div><div id="yiv7983967950yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478672255460_22090" dir="ltr"><span id="yiv7983967950yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478672255460_27394">It is not that food situation did not escape the notice of the delegates participating in the Paris Conference because food is a highly sensitive issue involving emotional factors and life and death of their citizens. Wisely the Agreement stipulated clearly that, though the aim of the Agreement was to strengthen the global response to climate change, such measures should be taken in a manner that does not threaten food production. But how can this can be done considering that the food production system globally account for more than 30% of the green gas emission each year? According to available data, food production and consumption involve an entire gamut of activities that include fertilizer production, food storage including low temperature warehousing and packaging. Many might not be aware that the field operations involved in food production emit a staggering 12,000 megatons of carbon dioxide equivalent every year while fertilizer industry contributes another 600 megatons. Added to this refrigeration system that is an integral part of the food chain generates about 500 megatons of carbon dioxide equivalent. Agriculture sector includes production of food grains, dairy products, horticulture produce, beef, poultry, mutton and pork. </span></div><div id="yiv7983967950yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478672255460_22090" dir="ltr"><span><br></span></div><div id="yiv7983967950yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478672255460_22090" dir="ltr"><span id="yiv7983967950yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478672255460_29320">Looking from another angle what contribution each of the above food categories affect human health? While food grains are considered the most basic food for majority of the population across the world, for good health a mixed diet is a prerequisite. That implies man cannot live on food grains alone requiring in addition nutrient dense foods like meat, poultry, fish, dairy products, fruits, vegetables etc. After all getting 2000 to 2500 kCal alone cannot provide a healthy life and other sources that contribute quality proteins, essential fatty acids, vitamins and minerals and dietary fiber are as important as food grains for maintaining good health. Therefore any food production policy that will have to be dovetailed to the objective of greenhouse gas emission reduction will have to tread carefully in order not to adversely affect food and health security. Within the agricultural sector livestock raising accounts for highest emission and any plan to reduce emission will have to consider bringing down consumption of the products from live stock industry that produces beef, milk, mutton and pork. Is this possible when majority of global population is addicted to these products resisting any attempt to cut consumption of these foods with high carbon foot prints? </span></div><div id="yiv7983967950yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478672255460_22090" dir="ltr"><span><br></span></div><div id="yiv7983967950yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478672255460_22090" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478682899140_3464">While climate changes are definitely affecting adversely the health conditions of humans besides contributing large scale changes in the weather conditions and raising global temperatures across the world, food, both quality and quantity wise is influencing the quality of life and spread of diseases and disorders among the people. This poses a great challenge to the policy makers in orchestrating programmes and actions that strike a balance between climate changes and food production. According to some experts consumption of too much sugar, fat and animal based foods collectively contribute to spread of health afflictions like CVD, diabetes, kidney disorders, obesity and others while in economically poor countries limited availability of protective foods is causing stunted growth and health disorders like Kwashiorkor, Marasmus, Anaemia and other deficiency manifestations. Take the case of meat and meat products which if consumed in moderate quantities along with plant based foods can be expected to maintain normal growth and optimum health, same products when over consumed have opposite effect as is happening in rich countries like USA, Europe, Canada, Australia etc. Naturally any call to limit production of animal foods and their consumption can have a favorable impact on health as well as the environment but same measures will further deteriorate the restricted availability of such nutritious foods in developing and underdeveloped countries. Policy orchestration therefore will have to be dovetailed to the special needs of individual countries depending on their economic prosperity and purchasing power. Probably Paris Agreement has this factor in mind while formulating the final recommendations.</span></div><div id="yiv7983967950yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478672255460_22090" dir="ltr"><span><br></span></div><div id="yiv7983967950yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478672255460_22090" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478682899140_4072">There has been some thinking about use of the economic tools to regulate over consumption of foods with high carbon footprints like meat and milk products. According to this concept there should be a Carbon Tax on high greenhouse gas emitting foods like beef which naturally will raise the consumer price very significantly, similar to the tobacco tax or alcohol tax, hopefully leading to reduced buying in the market place and lesser consumption progressively. Taxation as a disincentive was tried in the food and beverage sector in some countries with mixed results. Most notable is the "soda tax" which was tried out by some countries and while soda consumption did come down to some extent the result was not very significant or sustainable. The tiny state of Kerala in India is now trying out a "sugar tax" which is imposed on all foods containing more than 20% sugar. It is doubtful whether this will succeed to the extent anticipated. Sugar tax and Fat tax were thought of by countries like Denmark but fat tax has been discontinued while sugar tax is still in place. Globally sugar tax is becoming more and more common with countries like the UK, the US, South Africa, Norway, Denmark and France adopting this economic measure to cut down on sugar consumption. It is estimated that making a product 10% costlier can reduce consumption between 5 and 10 % and such a reduction could reduce incidence of diabetes significantly. </span></div><div id="yiv7983967950yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478672255460_22090" dir="ltr"><span><br></span></div><div id="yiv7983967950yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478672255460_22090" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478682899140_8751">According to some research data beef consumption can be brought down if it is made 40% costlier through levying appropriate taxes and making it that much costlier can be expected to change the buying habits of people to depress the market to the extent of at least 13%. Those buying meat twice a week are likely to change their buying mode to once a week. On a global level if such a reduction is achieved, green house gas emission is likely to be reduced to the extent of a billion tons besides saving half a million lives by 2020. Similarly increasing milk prices by 21% is supposed to reduce its consumption by 9%. A 15% costlier mutton can lead to 6% reduced purchase at the market place. If these projections are true developed countries have a ready route to achieve their carbon reduction targets through a taxation regime to make some of the foods implicated in obesity and other life style disorders significantly costlier. Of course this is more easily said than done considering how powerful is the food industry lobbies in these countries which have the eyes and ears of the law makers who have to take these baby steps to bring in sustainable results over a period of time.</span></div><div id="yiv7983967950yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478672255460_22090" dir="ltr"><span><br></span></div><div id="yiv7983967950yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478672255460_22090" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478682899140_9090">Recent gas chamber like situation in Delhi where pollution reached extraordinarily high levels gives a peep into the difficulties India may face in achieving any seizable carbon emission reduction. Though there is a controversy regarding what factors were really responsible for such large build up of PM 10 ( 808 ug/m3) and PM 2.5 (622 ug/m3) in the atmosphere surrounding Delhi, agricultural activities in the states surrounding Delhi has definitely made substantial contribution to the misery of the people in the capital city. Two biggest grain producers in the country Punjab and Haryana lie just west of Delhi and after the harvest season farmers burn the stubbles routinely generating huge smoke that spreads to urban areas near these agricultural fields. No one knows how much pollution is added by this smoke to the prevailing in situ generated pollution caused by diesel vehicles and building industry. Open burning is banned in some states penalizing those who indulge in these practices but like all other laws this rule is widely ignored. Though there are grand announcements by the Central Government that farmers would be provided with better technologies to deal with post harvest residue management, one has to wait and see whether any thing is going to happen immediately. </span> </div><div></div><div id="yiv7983967950yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478672255460_22072"> </div><div class="yiv7983967950signature" id="yiv7983967950yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478672255460_23767">V.H.POTTY<div id="yiv7983967950yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478672255460_23769">http://vhpotty.blogspot.com</div><div id="yiv7983967950yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478672255460_23768">http://foodtechupdates.blogspot.com</div></div></div></div></div></div>Dr. V.H . 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The debate about the safety of Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) foods never seems to end and in fact it is becoming more and more bitter and acrimonious day by day. The vacillating attitudes of government policy makers regarding making labeling mandatory for foods derived from raw materials raised by genetic modification are making the consumers more and more disturbing leading to world wide campaigns to ban such foods until their safety is established beyond a shadow of doubt. Massive consumer movements and multi pronged initiatives by consumer groups across the world demanding at least forcing the industry to declare on the label presence of GMO ingredients are gaining momentum and it is a question of time before the industry has to bow before such cascading consumer pressure. A simple question as to why the GMO industry is fighting tooth and nail to sabotage plans for making label declaration mandatory is- why are they doing it if GMO foods are absolutely safe? May be industry has a feeling that consumers will boycott such foods if they become aware of presence of GMO ingredients in such products. Added to this many products carrying declaration that they do not contain GMO ingredients provide a ready platform for consumers to go selectively for such "neat" foods as perceived by them, in preference to the GMO containing ones. Ultimately it boils down to the impact this will have on the bottom line of many GMO food peddlers! </div>
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Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of USA whose dictats are followed by many countries across the world has been very circumspect in its interpretation and policy orchestration vis-a-vis GMO foods. For ages FDA has been maintaining that GMO foods are "almost" like natural foods and are safe to consume by human beings. Probably such a policy support to the GMO industry has created a situation in that country where more than 80% of the processed food products made and marketed contain one or more GMO ingredients without the innocent consumer ever knowing about it! Does this not amount to deception by a government supposed to be the most democratic in the world? Is this ethical? Of course in an over democratized country like the US every individual has the right to do what he or she wants and true to this "ideal" the elected representatives also practice their fundamental right to say and do what they feel is right. It is another matter that a majority of these law makers are obliged to the GMO lobby because their elections have been bank rolled by them and they feel it is not correct to let their clients down by siding with the citizens though they forget that they owe their power to the very same electorate! </div>
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Here is a contradiction which is very difficult to explain away. In some of the states the proposal to make declaration of GMO ingredients mandatory failed ballot initiatives giving an impression that people are not too concerned about this issue. On the other hand surveys after surveys have shown that more than 80% of the citizens want to make such labeling compulsory! This has been attributed to the massive propaganda unleashed by the GMO lobby to "brainwash" the consumers through half "truths" and "no truths" about the safety of GMO foods. To an ordinary citizen it does not make any sense to adopt GMO foods because nature provides foods which have been found safe over centuries and why there should be attempts to tinker with nature. Hybridization technology practiced since long takes time to give desired results but the resultant hybrids generated due to natural gene mutations are stable and safe, consumed since time immemorial. Also not easily understood by the common man is the advantage of GMO foods for them or for the humanity as the claims of increased yield through GMO technology has never been proven any where so far. Of course traits like pest resistance and others are incorporated through GMO technology but here again net advantage is not undisputed. </div>
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Why is that the issue of GMO foods became a debating point again? Recent attempts by FDA to stop use of the phrase " does not contain GMO ingredients" by those not using them has created another unwarranted controversy and many feel that such an attempt is tantamount to punishing the citizen through denial of information about the nature of food being purchased by them. FDA feels that no one should use such declaration because many foods created through biotechnological process do not use genetically modified organisms all the times and most products are at best genetically "engineered" or "bioengineered"and therefore industry must shun using GMO word unnecessarily to avoid confusing the consumer. It is similar to saying that "no protein is present in an edible oil pack". May be there is a point and FDA may be right in issuing such an advisory which industry can adopt as long as no one uses the word GMO in any context. As far as consumer is concerned all he is interested is to know whether the food he is buying is made from natural ingredients with proven credentials. Whether the new FDA advisory is acceptable to the industry remains to be seen.</div>
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Many major food companies using genetic engineered food ingredients are happy that FDA has stuck to its position that it is not required for the processors to disclose presence of genetically engineered ingredients, sticking to its position that such products are not materially different from non-engineered versions. After all industry's efforts to resist mandatory labeling, fearing that customers will be scared off by foods known to contain genetically engineered ingredients seem to be succeeding. However the specious plea by them that mandatory labeling will drive the cost of the food cannot be accepted. It is a good sign that many major food companies have already moved to voluntarily label products that do not contain genetically engineered ingredients, either simply stating that on their packaging or using a small butterfly seal to show that the Non-GMO Project, a nonprofit that provides certification for food producers, has certified the absence of genetic engineered substances. Interestingly there is a genuine attempt by many manufacturers in the US to source non-GMO. ingredients which is a good sign as far as consumers are concerned. According to a recent report there are more than 30000 products in the US market carrying the label that they are free from GMO food ingredients and probably this sector may be worth about $ 13.5 billion which may be a fraction of the total retailed foods estimated at $ 638 billion last year.<br />
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The desire of the citizens for accessing clean and safe foods is reflected by efforts in the US in different states to mandate labeling of foods that do contain genetically engineered ingredients but they have largely failed by narrow margins, after heavy lobbying and campaign spending by the food and biotech industries. it is in this context that the law makers at the federal level passed a bill that would require food companies to reveal presence of genetically engineered ingredient in food products via a QR code, a pixelated square that can be scanned with a smartphone, on packaging that will reduce the chorus for hard printing the same on every label. Though it may be acceptable to many people who have adequate computing literacy to read the code before making a buying decision, a vast majority might not be able to decode to understand the nature of the product. In such a situation FDA also wants to differentiate between genetically engineered and genetically modified to convey different things to the consumers. According to them genetically engineered product comes from the efforts of biotechnologists originating in a laboratory while genetic modification happens by natural process as in hybridization process. Thus we have three technical terms which include Genetically Modified Organism (GMO), Genetically Engineered (GE) and Genetically Modified (GM). Of the three GMO is the most dreaded because genes from another species find their way into a particular food, though in small quantities. This means GM foods are analogous to natural foods while GE foods are similar but created in the lab with some distinct advantages. </div>
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Consumer is still left confused to make out what each of this term means if industry starts using all three terms for declaring their products are free from them. Probably more positive approach could be to make those using food ingredients created through GE or GMO technology to declare the same unequivocally as a part of the transparency protocol which consumers are bound to appreciate. Whether industry will agree for such a transparent practice is some what uncertain at this point of time because of monetary implications. Efforts of many manufacturers to source raw materials not tainted by GE or GMO will get rewarded only if declaration of presence or absence of lab created food ingredients on the label of each pack.. <br />
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We all know that food serves the twin purpose of satisfying our hunger and delivering the nutrients we need for growth and well being. Out of the three basic necessities of life, viz food, shelter and clothing the first one is most important as without food along with air and water no life can sustain in this planet. Most human beings take it for granted that when food is consumed the gastrointestinal ( GI )system automatically process these foods into usable nutrients required for the well being. But rarely any thought is given as to how complex is the GI system and what problems can arise if the normal process of digestion and absorption is hindered or adversely affected due to a host of reasons, many of them not still well known. Only people with disorders like allergies, intolerances, Crohn's disease, Celiac disease, Irritable bowel syndrome etc know what sufferings they have to endure as the present day treatment regimes are not considered absolutely satisfactory. Explosive growth of that industry sector manufacturing gluten free foods bears out the fact that all foods cannot agree with all the people. The so called well being food industry is rolling in money because the products being made by it commands a good following by those with one or the other real or imaginary problem with the foods they eat. Recent evolution of the concept of adverse effect of FODMAPS, a group of carbohydrates present in many foods, is further complicating the picture vis-a-vis tolerance of some of the foods by the GI system. Whether this is really a significant issue will emerge soon requiring attention at the hands of health pundits sooner or later. </div>
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Take the case of Gluten-free foods which are made and marketed through out world mainly to cater to the needs of those consumers who experience disorders like Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and Celiac disease. These foods are designed based on the presumption that gluten is primarily responsible for the discomfort experienced by the patients. However over the years many consumers who do not have this disorder, rightly or wrongly, seemed to have started a feeling that gluten is a villainous food component and avoiding the same can improve their quality of life.The result was the beginning of a booming industry that caught the fancy of the consumer creating a huge market. Whether it is ethical for this industry to make a fast buck exploiting the misconception that is gaining traction during the last one decade is a difficult issue to answer because the industry is after all giving to the consumer what he wants on a platter. What may not be justified is the massive marketing blitz singing the virtues of gluten free foods attracting more and more consumers of normal health into the fold of IBS patients. The global business for gluten free foods is reported to be worth $ 3 billion which is predicted to reach about $ 5 billion within 5 years. Interestingly Europe leads in marketing these foods, more than 50% of business generated in this region. But in terms of growth, USA is on a fast galloping growth phase out pacing Europe in the near future though no one knows what is contributing to this peculiar phenomenon.<br />
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Though no reliable statistics can be cited for the extent of people affected by intestinal disorders like IBS and Celiac disease, some estimates claim that 10-15% of global population is affected. But among those patronizing gluten free foods more than 70% are not suffering from this affliction. That means the size of the current market does not reflect the ground reality vis-a-vis gluten induced GI disorders. While gluten free food market is fast growing, there is another interesting development that gives further hope to the well being industry to expand the market several fold. Based on the findings in Australia that besides gluten, there is a range of food constituents present naturally in most foods which can also create GI related disorders. These are collectively called FODMAPS, the acronym for Fermentable, Oligo-, Di--Mono-saccharides and polyols and it has been scientifically shown that reducing the levels of FODMAPS containing foods in the diet dramatically provides relief to those suffering from such GI related disorders. What does this mean to the food industry? A sign that demand for specially designed food products containing no or low levels of FODMAPS is bound to grow dramatically in the coming years.<br />
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Though Gluten cornered all the attention over many years as a causative factor for GI disorders, there have been many observations in the past that consumption of some carbohydrates does not go well with many consumers and among them a few short-chain carbohydrates that include lactose, fructose and sorbitol, fructans and galacto oligosaccharides caused IBS-like symptoms. What was more significant was that such studies also showed dramatic improvements among the affected people when there was dietary restriction to exclude short-chain carbohydrates in the diet. These carbohydrates induced symptoms similar to that caused by Gluten in the small intestine. These short-chain carbohydrates, being small molecules are either poorly absorbed or not absorbed at all and are capable of dragging water into the intestine through osmosis Further they are easily fermented by colonic bacteria that reside in the large intestine generating gases like hydrogen, carbon dioxide and methane. Such a situation causes an expansion in volume of intestinal contents, which stretches the intestinal wall and stimulates nerves in the gut. that triggers the sensations of pain and discomfort, commonly experienced by those affected by IBS. The FODMAP concept maintains that a collective reduction in the dietary intake of all indigestible or slowly absorbed, short-chain carbohydrates would minimise stretching of the intestinal wall which in turn may reduce stimulation of the gut's nervous system and provide the best chance of reducing symptom generation in people with IBS. Later the collective term FODMAPS was evolved for designating indigestible or slowly absorbed, short-chain carbohydrates. </div>
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Formulation of low FODMAP diet was originally developed by scientists in Australia and tested as to know whether low FODMAP diet really improved symptom control in patients with IBS. It is this pioneering work which established the mechanism by which the diet exerted its effect. This led to efforts to evolve methodologies for measuring the FODMAPS content in foods and create a data base for foods that are consumed regularly. It is tribute to these scientists that a comprehensive and accurate database now exists describing the FODMAP content of a vast array of foods. There is now a better understanding about the mechanism by which the diet works and there is sound evidence indicating that a low FODMAP diet improves symptom control in approximately three out of every four people with IBS and other other Functional Gastric Intestinal Disorders (FGID). To day it is more or less agreed that the basis of many functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGIDs) is distension of the intestinal lumen. Such luminal distension may induce pain, a sensation of bloating, abdominal distension and motility disorders. Therapeutic approaches seek to reduce factors that lead to distension, particularly of the distal small and proximal large intestine. Food substances that can induce distension are those that are poorly absorbed in the proximal small intestine, osmotically active, and fermented by intestinal bacteria with hydrogen. </div>
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An important question that may trouble many consumers is whether poor absorption of most FODMAP carbohydrates present in many foods can affect every body including normal healthy persons. A pertinent question that can be explained away in an understandable language. Any FODMAPs that are not absorbed in the small intestine pass into the large intestine, where bacteria ferment them. The resultant production of gas potentially results in bloating and flatulence. Fortunately most individuals do not suffer significant symptoms but some may suffer the symptoms of IBS depending on their constitution and other biological variations. Fructose<br />
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benefit from a low FODMAP diet need not restrict fructose or lactose. It is possible to distinguish these two conditions by breath testing for the presence of hydrogen hydrogen and methane breath which will help to build into the diet only reasonable restrictions. Some of the significant sources of FODMAPS include wheat, rye, barley, onion, garlic, jerusalem & globe artichokes, asparagus, beetroot, chicory, dandelion leaves, leek, broccoli, brussel sprouts, cabbage, fennel etc. Pulses and beans are rich in galactans while some some fruits like apples, apricots, avocado, blackberries, cherries, lychees, nectarines peaches, pears, prunes, water melon have significant concentrations of polyols. Isomalt, maltitol, mannitol, sorbitol and xylitol gets into the food when they are used as functional processing adjuncts by the industry. If such a large portfolio of foods is out of bounds for some people vulnerable to GI system malfunctioning, it is difficult to imagine how their quality of life is affected. May be this is the price humans pay for the progress of civilization as we see to it day. Ultimately the one going to be benefited is the well being food industry and the pharma sector! </div>
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When it comes to research and development efforts, especially those with potential commercial application, who funds them becomes critical if the results of such scientific studies are to be credible. This is the reason why public funded research assumes critical importance for protecting the health of the citizen. In a country like the US, industry is in the forefront to offer financial assistance to Universities and other R & D institutions, the obvious purpose being touted as public interest. In contrast a country like India where resources are limited and industry is reluctant to open their purse for research in public organizations, most research is funded by the government. Is it not an irony that results generated by public funded agencies are not taken seriously by the industry due to many reasons while industry sponsored projects try to ensure that there is veil of secrecy attached to them for gaining advantage vis-a-vis the competitors. Thus renowned institutions in India like CFTRI, DFRL, NISTEM and a host of universities engaged in food R & D are repositories of knowledge generated over decades of research spending huge public money. Which system is preferable for the progress of a country is indeed a vexed question with uncertain answers.</div>
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The above issue came into sharp focus after a recent report about the unethical practices perpetrated by the sugar industry in the US to mislead the government as well as the consumers through "sponsored" research in some organizations using "friendly" scientists to deflect the truth that sugar is responsible for almost all the ills faced by the American citizens during the last 50 years. Words like Cardiac disease, diabetes, cancer, hypertension, kidney impairment etc are magnetic words that command immediate attention by people who are concerned about the terrible health disaster looming ahead of them and how each one of them can avoid succumbing to these ailments. It is in such an environment that sugar industry sponsored and funded research sought to assure the citizens that there is nothing wrong with consuming sugar and the real culprits are saturated fats, cholesterol and lack of physical exercise. Even if they have a point in asserting about other factors, it is is nothing but fraud to suppress the results that showed adverse impact of sugar on health and continue to pump into the market products with high levels of sugar that stimulate the taste buds of most citizens. If sugar is so innocuous why is that the whole world is now trying to curb its consumption through persuasive as well as mandatory actions to force the food industry to reduce sugar levels in their products? Such research projects are more aptly called tailor-made research to suit the needs of the sponsorer rather than a genuine scientific research! </div>
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One is reminded of the famous quotes of the CEO of the biggest soda company in the world where in consumers were advised not to bother about sugar in the soda but concentrate on physical exercise for maintaining their body weights. That shows the mindset of the food and beverage industry which has least priority as far as the health of the citizen is concerned or the quality of the environment he lives. Though the sugar industry tried to portray sugar as a safe ingredient through its tainted research efforts, it is now universally recognized that sugar is an addictive substance like opioids and habit forming and once hooked on it is next to impossible to keep away from sugar sweetened products. On the economic side down fall of sugar from its high pedestal can have severe financial impact on industries based on beverages, confectionery including chocolates, fruit preserves, canned fruit products and pastry products. Is it not a catch 24 situation? One cannot demolish the industry which provides gainful employment to millions of people while it is criminal to ignore the harmful effects, if any, of the products the industry churns out? That is probably the logic behind the approach of governments like that in the US not to be too harsh on the industry but use persuasive efforts rather than coercive methods to ensure healthy products are made in stead of suspect products too high in sugar, fat and refined carbohydrates. </div>
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Sponsored research generally refers to programs funded by private players among the industry to achieve a certain result of their liking but what is nauseating is the tendency of the funding party to influence the results and bring out results that suit them. The sugar research mentioned above comes under this category. There are many other instances where such studies have been financially supported by the industry and obtained results that help to market their products among the unsuspecting consumers. An excellent example is the research sponsored by the cocoa industry to implant in the minds of the consumers that chocolates are healthy because it is supposed to contain antioxidants like flavanols. Sadly this is a red herring because the harsh processing conditions undergone by cocoa beans before they become suitable for making good quality chocolates do not help to retain much of the flavanols in the final product. On the contrary chocolates are rich in saturated fats and high in sugar making them a prime candidate as a causative substance for some of the life style diseases encountered to day. Even the new generation healthy chocolates now in the market containing upwards of 70% cocoa solids are suspect products with no proven health benefits. Imagine how this industry making obviously a unhealthy product is flourishing raking up billions of dollars of business all over the world! Probably most of the so called well being products in the market to day have not undergone any sound scientific studies with hardly any credible peer review. </div>
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In a world starved of funds for research which after all cannot bring dividends in the short term, can the scientists refuse funding from the industry? Of course not. There must be some ethical standards which have to be followed while accepting such funding. Who will set such standards? This is the duty of the research organization in collaboration with the government. While product development may be a genuine area for industry funding, especially in a country like India where captive research set ups are far and few because the astronomical cost involved in establishing them, the R & D agencies must be careful regarding projects offered by the industry to support their unjustifiable health claims and far fetched agenda. India is fortunate in having organizations like CSIR, ICAR and ICMR with a vast network of R & D laboratories with a massive number of multidisciplinary scientists and all claims made by the industry must be verified before allowing to be marketed and if there is a resource crunch those who make the claim can be charged, at least nominally so that consumers can trust such claims when printed on the label. </div>
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Coming to cooked up research, many of the studies undertaken by scientists and degree yearning research scholars are suspect as they do not face any real test regarding the veracity of their results. Those pursuing doctoral degrees are aware that no system exists to day that can challenge their results through repeating their studies to confirm the same! This is not to brush the entire research system with tar but to highlight the lacunae of the present university research system. There may be many honest scientists with unimpeachable integrity and honesty but they are far and few in to day's permissive atmosphere where every thing is accepted as truth without undergoing the veracity check. Internationally there have been many instances where research findings are retracted after a few years of their publication, more by accident than by any genuine checking system. If some of the R & D agencies working under government aegis have miserably failed the nation in delivering what is expected from them through development of global standard technologies, lack of reliability, trust of the potential users and failure to demonstrate under field conditions are responsible. One has to admire our scientists in space agency who cannot afford to fudge results because to ensure success of the space program their work has to be demonstrable and reliable for the entire country to see. It is this golden standard scientists in other fields also must set for themselves if they do not want to loose their esteem before the public. </div>
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Diabetes is by now considered a debilitating disease which many viewing it as a silent killer. While educated people with some basic knowledge about the etiology of this affliction understand how the food we eat affects the blood glucose level and the adverse effect high glucose levels can have on different health parameters. It is sad to see millions of people suffering from diabetes, not very much aware of the consequences of eating high carbohydrate foods, that too based on highly refined ones, on the dynamics of glucose generation within the body and fall prey to serious ailments affecting eyes, heart, kidneys, limbs etc destroying the quality of their life. According to available reports there are more than 422 million people suffering from this disorder which is fast becoming a top killer among all the diseases. In India itself number of people afflicted by diabetes is placed around 62 million and if experts are to be believed, India may become the world capital of diabetes soon, if not checked effectively. Once diabetes is diagnosed appropriate diet and disciplined eating habits can provide substantial benefits along with correct drugs in right dosage. Inability of the body to assimilate sugar at a rate that will prevent undue build up in the blood, due to insulin insufficiency or insulin insensitivity has to be recognized and such build up can be "managed" only by a diet predominant in whole grains with particular emphasis on pulses, vegetables, meat, fish and nuts with low rate glucose release when consumed.</div>
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It is not that information is lacking regarding the type of foods that can be eaten moderately and the quantity that can be safe but often the logistical difficulties in adhering to a strict diet regimen besides often conflicting nature of such information, make it impractical to follow the guidelines of the physicians. Against such a situation the evolution of the concepts of Glycemic Index (GI) and glycemic load (GL) during early eighties provided a reasonably reliable guide to the ability of different foods consumed regularly to generate glucose in the body. Thus high GI, medium GI and low GI foods were developed or conceptualized that will safeguard against undue glucose spikes in the blood after consumption. But if recent reports by a group of scientists from the US are to be believed, GI is not as reliable as it was thought to be pushing millions of diabetics as well as the food industry developing products with low GI into a new era of uncertainty. What are the implications of the results of this study? </div>
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Traditionally blood glucose levels, estimated after a 12 hour fasting and 2 hours after ingesting a normal breakfast provided a reasonable clue as whether a person is diabetic or not. While a glucose level of 100 mg per 100 ml after fasting and 150 mg/100 ml 2 hours after breakfast are considered normal. Though there are slight variations in diabetic assessment technique essentially all of them highlight the ability of the body cells to assimilate free glucose from the blood for hundreds of biological functions. While high levels of blood glucose are supposed to cause hyperglycemic conditions considered dangerous, especially it it continues for long time, low levels of glucose cause hypoglycemic symptoms such as giddiness and over all weakness. Though these values are more or less accepted universally, monitoring blood glucose levels frequently, especially in the home environment is fraught with some logistical problems. Estimating glucose in a pathological laboratory may take at least a couple of hours but there are home gadgets based on mild pricking and drawing a tiny drop of blood on to a glucose oxidase enzyme strip that provides digital readings of glucose levels in a matter of a few seconds. Many people buy these gadgets for testing of glucose as and when they feel symptoms of hyper or hypo glycemia. A non-invasive system without the necessity of puncturing the skin is still in the realm of development and may take some time before becoming a common tool.</div>
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What is GI? Using a standard material like sugar for testing glucose transfer to blood from the food ingested is measured as a percentage of the time taken for the sugar to manifest in the blood, GI is expressed usually as a definitive number. Easily assimilable and fast appearance of glucose from the ingested sugar sources usually have high GI numbers while those foods which do not release glucose easily have low GI values. Generally whole grains and pulses are slow glucose releasers and hence have low GI values. Most food products based on sugar and refined cereal flours have high GI values indicating that they cause glucose spikes in blood considered highly undesirable. Similarly processed foods containing high levels of retrograded starch and uncooked foods also have relatively lower GI values. Since a diabetic wants to avoid rapid rise in blood sugar levels, his choice is always foods with low GI numbers. Food industry also strives to evolve food products with less and less GI numbers to attract diabetes affected consumers and incidentally such tailor made foods also command higher prices.</div>
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It is almost a decade and a half since GI became a standard parameter for assessing suitability of different foods for consumption by diabetic affected people and no one has so far contested the relevance or reliability of GI to assess the glucose release and absorption by the blood. Of course from time to time there were informed criticism regarding the reliability of GI concept, in the absence of a better alternative, GI was still widely adopted by nutritionists and medical community as a practical tool. Though GI is widely used by physicians and dietitians for advising their clients regarding the best foods they must consume to control diabetes, periodic checking of fasting sugar and postprandial sugar levels still gives an idea about the extent of control of the food regimen by a diabetic patient. Of course this traditional practice of glucose monitoring in the morning can at best give a picture about the glucose dynamics in the blood during pre-lunch period. What about the situation in the post lunch period? Though many diabetics use home gadgets to monitor the blood glucose level as many times as they wish, it is not practical to do this often due to the physical discomfort involved in skin puncturing. The concept of glycosylated haemoglobin (HbA1c) measurement in the blood once in 2-3 months provides a reliable means of knowing about the history of food eating during that period. While a value of less than 6 is considered normal, any value beyond that can be an indicator of onset of diabetes. Values beyond 7 must be taken seriously to exercise better control of the diet by including more and more of low GI foods in their diet. </div>
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One can realize how far the world has gone in adopting GI as a useful tool to manage diets. It is this edifice which is sought to be destroyed by the findings of a group of scientists in the US who claim that GI is not as dependable as it is thought to be, because of inconsistent values of GI noted for the same food in different people. While minor variations up to 5% can be ignored because of experimental error that may creep in in different laboratories, variations as big as 20% cannot be attributed to lab error. If their results are true the commonly consumed white bread can show GI values ranging from 47 to 77! This means white bread can be a low GI food for some, medium GI food for some body else and a high GI food for some others. How ludicrous it is? But if the results of the American scientists are validated, it is going to open a Pandora's Box with unimaginable consequences. Low GI foods have values 35-55, medium ones 57-67 and high GI category with GI 70-103. More shocking is that same food with a certain standard GI value gave widely different values in the same person when determined on different occasions according to these scientists! What can one make out of these observations and what impact it will have on various stakeholders of the diabetic disease?.</div>
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It is unfortunate that the new studies have come at a time when some consensus is emerging about the need for the food industry to include in the label information regarding the GI value of the contents within the packet. Will this be the pretext for the manufacturers to resist pressure from the consumer community to publish GI data on the label? That should not be allowed to happen at any cost unless more studies are organized to validate the new findings. Even if GI values show variations under different conditions, by and large they seem to remain same most of the time. Similarly it does not matter that GI response varies from person to person since most data applied to day is based on majority response. Till a new and better alternative energies, it may be fool hardy to ignore it for the time being. Diabetics are better advised to base their diet on low GI foods and best way to manage diabetes could be to adopt diets based on foods undergoing minimum processing.</div>
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The million dollar question is whether hundreds of scientist working on GI of foods have gone wrong some where? What can be the scientific explanation for this shocking anomaly? A larger question is if there are such wide metabolic and physiological variations amongst human beings, what relevance studies using humans as subjects can have in generalizing the results of such studies to be applicable to entire humanity? This question assumes more significance when human studies are undertaken while testing drugs for various ailments and diseases. It is urgent that the questions raised by the Tuft university scientists are further examined by a few independent groups under international collaboration to arrive at a consensus. If Gi tool is to be thrown out of the window what other alternatives we have to assess appropriateness and soundness of foods for consumption by diabetic population? No body disagrees with the universal consensus that fruits, vegetables, whole cereals, pulses and foods rich in retrograded starch must constitute the core part of any diet but to make them palatable appropriate products have to be evolved acceptable to the targeted consumers. . </div>
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The recent controversy regarding the presence of potassium bromate residues in bread and other wheat based bakery preparations does not help either the consumer or the industry. While it showed bakery industry as a villain, consumers became weary about the industry giving an impression that the products churned out by this sector are not safe. According to the organization which splashed this news based on a study of a few samples picked up from the Delhi market, since bromates are carcinogenic, bread made with this chemical is not safe for human consumption. Probably it may have a point and safety authorities need to look into this issue more carefully and dispassionately. Decision to ban must be taken based on facts and ground reality, not as a knee-jerk reaction. What is not understandable is the haste with which the authors of this study had gone to the press which can only serve to create panic among the consuming public. FSSAI, the "Authority" sitting in Delhi seems to have been woken up from its slumber mode and since it has authority to ban any products as it did with maggi noodles last year, one can only expect a similar reaction from this babu organization. But it is time the consumers realize the reality, give the report a cursory glance and go on with their lives till more definitive data emerge on this issue.</div>
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According to the Center for Science and Environment, a Delhi based consumer watch dog, Indian bread may cause cancer because of the existing practice of the baking industry using potassium bromate for improving the raising quality of the bread. Not only that it also includes besides bread other products like pizza, burger etc as potential cancer causing products about which consumers must be aware. It further declares that potassium iodate, an approved additive in bakery products, has the potential to adversely affect thyroid functions in human beings and therefore needs to be banned. Lo, there goes the declaration by the FSSAI banning bromate for use in food products in India and further assures the public that it would examine iodate regarding its ill effects on humans! Steps in our over concerned Mantriji, the custodian of health of the population in India, cautioning the public against panic as he is "fully seized" of the matter. He further assures the public that a thorough investigation will be undertaken to find out whether these chemicals already approved by FSSAI are really dangerous and take "appropriate action" if so. Of course every body knows that he and his ministry will promptly forget about this issue and move on to the mundane things they are doing to protect the health of Indian people! </div>
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For those not knowing what is potassium bromate and why it is used in bakery products, it is appropriate to peep into into its history. Potassium bromate, or commonly referred to as bromate, is an oxidiser deployed to strengthen wheat dough so that its elasticity is increased, besides helping to get a uniform bake and white color for the final product viz bread. Usual practice is to use 15-30 parts per million (ppm) of potassium bromate in the flour before making the dough. For a number of years this chemical was being used extensively by the baking industry across the world with no adverse report coming from any where. One of the reasons why it is considered a safe practice is that bromate gets destroyed at the high baking temperatures which is required to make a good bread. It is well known that at the baking temperatures normally no residue is supposed to be left behind to cause any ill effect. Of course if good manufacturing practices are not followed, especially use of high concentrations of bromate or under baking, possibility of some residue remaining cannot be ruled out. </div>
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Is use of bromate confined only to India? Of course not. There are a few countries like the US which permit use of bromates but under the condition that there is zero residue left in the product after baking. Many countries, to be on the safer side out rightly banned use of bromates. Though earlier a limit of 75 ppm was allowed which was reduced to 60 ppm later, subsequent international studies did find bromate to be of carcinogenic potential and advised all countries to avoid using it as far as possible since alternative safer additives are available to achieve the same objective as a flour improver. It was in 2012 that the Codex Alimentarius Commission of FAO/WHO withdrew specifications for bromate from its official list implying that its use should be discontinued. However, India, though a member of the Codex did not bother to implement the recommendations of this body and continued permitting bromate in the country for reasons known best to FSSAI. Is it not ironical that FSSAI has to be woken up by the limited studies of the Delhi organization to remove bromate from the list of permitted food additives? </div>
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Before we take the side of the consumer, it is only fair to listen to the compulsions of the bakery industry in India as to why it is persisting with the use of bromate, in spite of the adverse views of the Codex. Most logical explanation would be that it is legally permitted in the country and no one can find fault with it. Interestingly in a country like the US where 60-75 ppm of bromate is legally allowed many major bakery players have shunned its use voluntarily, finding alternate flour improvers like ascorbic acid, ammonium persulfate, ammonium chloride, amylase, glucose oxidase etc. The attraction for the industry to use bromate is that it is the cheapest flour improver in the market, all others costing considerably more. It is the contention of the bakery industry that if it is forced to stop use of bromate, the bread prices may go up due to increased cost of manufacture. Probably this is an argument no body is going to buy that easily! The industry feels that since FSSAI does not want to shoulder the responsibility of monitoring the bromate residues in bread regularly, it is exercising its power to ban this chemical. May be there is a point but responsible industry leaders must understand that monitoring thousands of small and micro scale bakeries across this vast country is not that easy and therefore it must accept gracefully the decision to discontinue use of bromate in the country. As for potassium iodate it is not used widely in India in food preparations though it is a recommended source of iodine for fortification of salt to prevent on set of the goiter disease among the population. Probably banning this chemical may affect the salt fortification project promoted by the government. </div>
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If the industry is to be believed the report by the Delhi organization regarding the safety of bread in India based on a limited study confined only to Delhi has caused a severe backlash against bakery products in the country as it has touched a raw nerve among the consumers, causing significant damage to its business. May be it has a point as voluntary organizations publishing such reports needs to be controlled and there should be an alliance between such groups and the government for exchanging such information before making them public. After all GOI has big institutions like CFTRI, CDRI, NIFTEM, etc and veracity of such panic causing reports must be vetted by peer scientists from these institutes before being put on the public domain. However well equipped voluntary organizations are, their facilities and experience cannot come any where to that of GOI food research institutions and hence this caution.</div>
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Whoever has not heard of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan? People in these two unfortunate towns were the "pioneering" victims of the horrendous atom bomb attack by the Americans during World War II and even to day, after seven decades of that horrible incidence, the wounds have not healed completely. What is the connection between an atom bomb and food? Of course there is a connection in that people are reminded of the deadly effect of radiation when the modern irradiation technology was developed for food preservation and human safety. What a contradiction! The bomb is a destroyer <i id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1472451797750_4227">par excellence</i> while irradiation technology is a savior of man kind. It is this paradox that is coming in the way of popularising a technology based on gamma radiation that can kill a hoist of pathogens which are the scourge of the millions of consumers, victims of food poisoning, maiming and killing them. Why is that the world inhabited by 7 billion plus population, in spite of the unassailable safety data generated over decades of exhaustive research is not able to convince itself that irradiation is a process with zero danger and absolute safety? No one knows the reason though one can guess that governments world over have not done enough to educate their citizens at an early stage of their lives about what irradiation technology is all about and its tremendous potential to eradicate food borne diseases.</div>
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Consuming safe food is not an issue that has divergence of opinion because food borned diseases pose a major risk to the well being and quality of life. Only those who were exposed to food-borne illness know how unpleasant the experience can be and how it can be deadly if not properly and timely treated. Food scientists and technologists have been working incessantly for the last two centuries to evolve technologies that can extend the life of perishable foods without sacrificing the safety or quality. Thus thermal processing, dehydration, salt and sugar preservation, high pressure processing, refrigeration, freezing, controlled atmosphere storage and transportation etc are front line technologies in use to day and industry is indebted to them for making available foods across the globe irrespective of the length of the food chain. Though using these technologies food can be made safe, often the manufacturing facilities and the personnel involved in managing them can falter resulting in catastrophe in the form of food poisoning. Thus however beautiful or fool proof the technology is, ultimate safety still depends on uncompromising hygiene and sanitation in the manufacturing environment. Food irradiation may be a very good technology but it can be good only as long as no compromise is made on the base quality of the food and soundness of the processing facilities. </div>
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What is irradiation? It is a simple process of exposing food materials which are perishable due to vectors like microorganisms and insects, to ionizing radiation capable of generating energy that can be transmitted without direct contact with the material exposed. Such radiation is capable of freeing electrons from their atomic bonds in the targeted food. Such an exposure reduces risk of food borne illnesses, prevents spread of invasive insects and pests, delays or eliminates sprouting in crops like potato and delays the physiological phenomenon involved in ripening in fruits. A characteristic feature of irradiation is that the foods so processed do not become radioactive as being feared by many ill informed consumers. Though radio active substances are commonly used to emit radiation, electrons can also be generated by electricity. Medical industry uses gamma radiation very widely to day for sterilizing many inputs used in hospitals. Since International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has unequivocally cleared food irradiation as a safe and effective tool for disinfection and disinfestation, more than 60 countries have approved this technology for use by different sectors of food industry. It is estimated that about half a million tons of foods are irradiated across the world annually. In fact many countries are insisting that products like spices and herbs must be irradiated if to be imported into their countries.</div>
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While countries like Brazil permit use of unlimited doses of gamma radiation in foods some restrictions are in place in countries like Austria, Germany and others. Generally gamma radiation application is categorised into low dose, medium dose and high dose depending on the intensity of the energy deployed, as measured on kiloGray scale (kGy). Low dosage means radiation should not be more than 1 kGy, medium denotes 1-10 kGy and high dosage uses radiation above 10 kGy. Low dose is effective against insects, sprouting and ripening. Medium dose is needed for delaying meat spoilage, preserve spices, seasonings and herbs. High dosage is deployed for sterilization of packed meat, increasing juice yield from fruits and improving the rehydration characteristics of dehydrated foods. To ensure adequate consumer awareness and proper transparency, Codex Alimentarius Commission insists on compulsory labeling of irradiated foods and also recommends inclusion of the "Radura" logo on the label. Both FAO and IAEA strongly favor wide scale use of irradiation for improving the food safety environment in member countries. There are global standards created by Codex of FAO and WHO agreed upon by member countries under WTO protocols and each country can adapt these standards for application within their countries. </div>
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One of the impediments in wide scale use of irradiation technology is the enormous capital investment required for establishing the required facility which is beyond the financial capability of normal entrepreneurs. It is estimated that an economically viable treatment facility can cost upward of $ 5 million to establish and industry expects government involvement in establishing common irradiation facilities in areas where food processing and exports are concentrated. Also of constraint is the tight control on fissionable materials which are essential part of an irradiation plant and which have security connotations in terms of misuse by terrorists and criminals if they get access to such dangerous materials. Cobalt-60 radioisotope is the preferred radiation source used in irradiators though Caesium-137 can also be used if available. The latter isotope is a by-product of atomic power reactors which are working in many countries. But its availability is rather restricted because of logistical factors. Though Caesium-137 is cheaper compared to Cobalt-60, it has an inherent risk in that it is soluble in water raising the risk of radiation contamination of cooling water due to possible leak and consequent health hazards.</div>
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Another issue that is hindering universal application of irradiation technology is the hesitation on the part of the industry to adopt the same because of the mandatory requirement of labeling irradiated foods that will distinguish it from products made with other technologies. There can be some apprehension that when such a declaration is made on the label, it raises doubts in the minds of the consumer regarding the quality and safety of these foods vis a vis that of other products in the market. It is similar to the labeling war that is going on Genetically modified foods where industry opposes such distinctive and compulsory declaration precisely on same grounds. Really speaking there is no need for declaring the foods treated by irradiation process as distinct as the food material is not changed in any way and there is no residual radiation left behind after the treatment. Unfortunately the consensus politics at the international level seeking wide acceptance among the countries and wide scale application in most countries led to the provision of mandatory labeling of irradiated foods. How this logjam can be broken remains to be seen. One way for solving this issue amicably could be to make industry declare compulsorily on all packed foods the technology used to manufacture all the products marketed. For example canned products can carry a declaration that it is thermally processed or pH modification process for acid preserved products or chemically preserved for those where preservative chemicals have been used. Of course it is uncertain whether industry is amenable to such a proposal. </div>
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New technologies such as irradiation that can make food safer have historically been a tough sell as far as the public is concerned and they face severe backlash at least in the beginning due apprehension about the health implications among the public. Many countries were on the threshold of clearing irradiation technology during early 2000 but retracted because of fear about public criticism. Is it not a tragedy that in spite of irrevocable and irrefutable evidence in favour of irradiation process extraneous considerations are holding it to ransom coming in the way of universal adoption? Can any one refute the fact that treating food products with ionizing radiation can reduce the presence of mould, E coli, salmonella, campylobacter and parasites without reducing nutrition or food quality?. International authorities such as the United Nations and the World Health Organization have unreservedly endorsed it. Take the example of a developed country like Canada where irradiation technology was approved for use since 2002 on potatoes, onions, wheat, flour, whole wheat flour, whole and ground spices and dehydrated seasoning preparations. Why is it that industry is currently using it only on spices, that too sparingly? .</div>
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Surveys in many countries suggests that public sentiments range from comfortably oblivious to vaguely supportive of this technology. Interestingly vast majority of consumers who respond to such surveys , more than 70% express their ignorance of existence of irradiation technology. An encouraging trend is that generally more consumers are positive about their views on the technology compared to those who are negative in their perception. Another revelation that comes out of consumer surveys is that more than 80% consumers want compulsory labeling of irradiated foods though they are not clear why that should be so. Looking from another angle, if milk labels contain words like pasteurized, UHT treated etc why not irradiated beef and other food stuffs processed using gamma radiation also declare the technology used. Some critics are concerned that if irradiation technology is used widely, meat industry may lower their guard vis-a-vis maintenance of high standards of hygiene and sanitation. Whether this is really a problem may emerge only when irradiation becomes the standard process of vector destruction in industries like meat processing and other easily perishable and vulnerable food stuffs. If world is facing to day a serious health crisis because of the wide spread contamination of foods due to infection with more than two dozens pathogenic microorganisms, a choice needs to be made to day whether we want irradiation technology to be made compulsory especially for meat products. The fact that more than 50 million people get sick every year, almost 2 lakh are hospitalized and more than 3000 people die because of food poisoning from pathogens is a strong enough reason for the world to move in the direction mentioned above. </div>
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Dr. V.H . Pottyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11500499095968478516noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6273134730103617921.post-76115718151573707352016-05-09T11:52:00.000+05:302016-08-29T12:03:48.608+05:30Influence of food pack labeling on moderating consumption-A new paradigm needed<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Food labeling has been hailed as one of the most transparent efforts of the food industry to gain the confidence of the consumer who is supposed to have the right to know what he is buying and eating. Granted that this is a sort of empowerment of the consumer, a logical question is whether these labels do any useful purpose when it comes to taking a decision regarding what is healthy or unhealthy and still worse how much is good for the well being of the consumer? For many labeling does not make any sense as the numbers printed in the nutrition labeling table are just numbers with no meaning, especially to an uneducated person and invariably very few people read them before buying any product. The intention of the policy makers and health pundits are indeed laudable but whether such declarations do have any impact on the eating behavior or the overall health of the consumer is a million dollar question begging for an answer. The fact that almost 15 to 35% of the population in almost all countries across the world are either overweight or obese is a telling commentary on the effectiveness of the current label declaration laws in the world. Can there be any solution to this intractable problem and will any improvements in the labeling regulations bring about a change in the consumer attitude and perception about food and health and moderate the consumption? </div>
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One of the basic principles of health and nutrition is that one must balance the consumption of calories based on the physical activity that is part of the life. Though 2000-3000 kCals are often bandied about as the daily requirement of an individual depending on factors like age, profession, type of physical activity, environmental conditions including ambient temperatures prevalent and finally amount of exercise one indulges in daily. Thus a sedentary person may need lesser calories than an athletic individual and there fore food consumption will have to be different. People tend to put on weight beyond the normal body weight when calorie consumption exceeds the level that is necessary to maintain a steady state of equilibrium with all the calories burned off for the daily activity associated with normal life. The concept of Body Mass Index (BMI) evolved years ago is a yardstick that helps to define whether a person is normal, over weight or obese. While a BMI figure of 25 is considered normal, when it reaches 30 one becomes over weight Obesity becomes the rule if BMI figure exceeds 35 and it is generally considered a disease requiring treatment, lest other more serious diseases like CVD, diabetes, blood pressure, kidney ailments etc follow, making life more miserable and risky. </div>
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No doubt nutrition labeling does indicate the amount of calories contained in one serving of a particular food product manufactured by the industry which helps to moderate consumption in many cases. But such information does not sink in when products are eaten sporadically through out the day in several servings which can have a cumulative effect on the calorie intake without the consumer realizing about it. How does a person know that he gets sufficient calories to perform his day to day activities without fatigue or weakness? There is a well set body mechanism with timely signals to indicate satiety when eating should be stopped. But once a person gets too much attached to food such signals are ignored resulting in over eating and many times gluttony. When too much food beyond the body's need is ingested naturally excess calories get converted to body fat that is stored in places like belly and other vulnerable parts of the body, distorting the shape of the person with pot belly. There is still no unanimity regarding the roles played by the three major contributors of calories in our foods though lately the focus has shifted from fat to carbohydrates. Most of the industrial foods that dominate the markets in the well to do affluent countries are all considered "fattening" because they are all loaded with "empty calories", meaning they are rich in calories but devoid of vitally needed nutrients like proteins, dietary fiber, EFAs, vitamins and minerals. To add to this "deficiency" these foods are designed to make them addictive with too much sugar and fat. </div>
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Modern foods churned out by the industry are made from unhealthy ingredients like sugar, white flour, highly refined saturated fats and trans fats, meats with practically no dietary fiber and natural nutrients besides being fast digesting releasing the calories too fast. In contrast foods made from natural raw materials like whole grains, fruits, vegetables, lean meat and fish do not raise blood sugar levels quickly enabling the body metabolic apparatus to "manage" them on its own pace. Adding to this burden is the presence of many processing artifacts, leachates from packaging materials and man made chemicals like crop protectants and preservatives which all have debilitating impact on the human body. Is it possible and feasible to expect the industry which markets thousands of products to address all these concerns on a small label? This is where the regulatory authorities come into focus and to day's knowledge base helps to weed out many unsafe and unhealthy substances from the processed food products which have to conform to rigorous safety regimes mandated in each country, well supported by international agencies like WHO, FAO, IAEC, UNICEF and others. In spite of all these controls food related mortality rates are steadily increasing. A complex situation that needs more attention globally. </div>
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Probably the knowledge disseminated through the label regarding how many calories a chocolate bar, a packet of chips, or a serving of an ice cream will provide may not be sufficient to "impress upon" the consumer as to how much exercise he has to do to burn it off. Will it take half an hour or one hour of walking or running to get rid of these calories.? Why is such an information crucial for the consumer? In what way it will help him? To answer this we have to consider the importance of the staple diet in influencing the health of an individual. If a human being has to get 2000 calories of energy, 50 gms of proteins, 50 gms of fat besides other micronutrients through food consumed every day, how much of the energy can come from casual food items like beverages, fried foods, sweetened snacks or other low nutrient density foods? This is important to avoid over consumption of these calorie rich foods and under consumption of proteins and other vital nutrients. Can a person survive for long if whole of the calories come from low nutrient junk foods without causing serious health crisis? It is here that the need arises to link food consumption with exercise. If the label indicates that one has to run for 1 hour to burn the calories contained in a serving of a particular food or two hours of walking for the same, this can be expected to have a sobering influence on eating casual foods to a significant extent.</div>
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Probably pictorial presentation of calorie burning exercises like walking, running, cycling or tread mill and the duration of the exercise for burning the calories in the packed products may really help most layman in restricting food intake as much as possible. If consumption of a sugary soft drink, about 200 ml, containing about 100 kCals calls for walking at least for about 15 minutes or running for 8 minutes, this can be a constant reminder that such drinks, not part of a regular meal, should not taken multiple times a day. Similarly If eating a quarter of a large sized pizza with more than 400 kCals will necessitate walking for 75 min or running for 45 mins, it will definitely scare a consumer that may act as a disincentive against over consumption of pizza. A single piece of cinnamon roll with 400 calories will require 120 mins of walking or 40 mins of running to shake off the calories. Eating a 50 gm portion of roasted peanut with 300 kCals will call for 50 mins of walking or 30 minutes of running to neutralize the calories ingested. The idea is excellent but whether practical needs to be considered.</div>
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Enlightened consumers can be expected to encourage the concept of activity-equivalent calorie labels wholeheartedly. Processing industry will probably resist any such move because of its implications on their bottom line due to lower purchase of their products by a well informed consumer worried about their health. While it may agree to include such information in their web sites, it can have no impact as most of the population are computer illiterate besides having no access to internet in spite of the "free basics" being promoted by one of the internet giants. Current information barrage on the nutrition labels has very little influence on the consumer and replacing them with simplistic ones containing just the basic nutritive facts like calories, fat, sugar, carbohydrates, health value as presented by the traffic lights system and calorie-activity equivalents may be more than sufficient. </div>
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A pertinent question that may be asked is whether in a country like India such labels will have any relevance at all? May be it is not because more than 90% of the population do not consume packed foods except biscuits, their life style dependent on staple home cooked diets or small and mini eateries serving a variety of freshly cooked foods. It is not practical to force these eateries to display calorie-activity equivalent information for the benefit of the customers. Besides even the existing labeling system is so complicated and eye-straining to read and understand as most of the population are English language illiterates. Ultimately sociologists will step in saying that education is the only solution to make the masses understand the goodness or otherwise of the foods they consume. This may be true but from the practical angle a long time consuming process which should be pursued as a long term objective while bilingual labels containing vital information on health and nutrition on the food labels by the processing industry and on display boards in eateries can provide some relief to the harried citizen. </div>
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Dr. V.H . Pottyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11500499095968478516noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6273134730103617921.post-50437207576138771542016-02-29T04:10:00.000+05:302016-08-29T12:01:38.985+05:30The great dilemma that is agriculture! Balancing between production and pollution<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span id="yiv5817626817yui_3_16_0_1_1456640323678_19553" style="font-size: small;">"Food insecurity" is a subject talked about very often because of two critical factors-population explosion and progressive reduction of food crop yield attributed by many to the global warming phenomenon. During the last 10 years frequent droughts and floods in different parts of the world have adversely affected agricultural out put significantly. Though technologies are continuously being developed and deployed to achieve increased yields, farmers in most undeveloped, under developed and developing countries still remain impoverished due to economic factors. In a country like India farmers are choosing the route of suicide to get them relieved from the unbearable burden of life. Recent climate talks COP21 (Conference of Parties to the 1997 Kyoto protocol ) that took place in Paris in November 2015 were concerned more with global warming due to uncontrolled green house gas emissions by all countries irrespective of their economic status a small but significant step was taken to bring focus on the food security in the world in the coming years and a realization seems to be dawning on wise people that climate change is intimately linked to food production and unless it is tackled there is no hope for survival of the human race. The ambitious target of reducing global warming and restricting global warming by not more than 2C by achieving zero net anthropogenic green house gas emissions by the second half of this century. was a bold decision. These decisions are to be given legal frame work of agreement between April 2016 and April 2017 in New York aas per the Paris agreement. Some of the decisions arrived at the Paris conference can have far reaching implications for all the countries though a mute question still remains as to how far actionable steps will be taken in the coming years. . </span></div>
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<span id="yiv5817626817yui_3_16_0_1_1449281150131_7102" style="font-size: small;"><i id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456697888920_6942">It's become a catch-22 of our times: the global food system is both a villain and a victim of climate change. Agriculture accounts for almost a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions, and yet floods, drought, and the planet's increasing climatic variability play with the fate of our food. Continuing on the current climate trajectory will mean a future of profound food insecurity, especially for developing nations.<br id="yiv5817626817yui_3_16_0_1_1449281150131_7042" />This week, these concerns have been prominent on the agenda at the COP21 climate talks in Paris. For the first time at a COP conference, agriculture had its own dedicated focus-day, held on Tuesday by the Lima-Paris Action Agenda (LPAA), a partnership established between France and Peru to showcase and strengthen on-the-ground climate action in 2015 and beyond. "For years, agriculture, food systems, including oceans, including forests, have been knocking hard at the door—and now there's movement starting," said David Nabarro, former special representative of food security and nutrition for the United Nations, at the LPAA agriculture press briefing on Tuesday afternoon.<br id="yiv5817626817yui_3_16_0_1_1449281150131_7040" />That door should have been yanked open a long time ago, considering that our food systems are due to bear so much of the brunt of climate change. But there are strong signs of progress. The world needs creative solutions if we are to reduce agricultural impact and feed everyone on the planet (an estimated nine billion by 2050)—and some of the best have recently been aired at the talks.<br id="yiv5817626817yui_3_16_0_1_1449281150131_7038" />Here are three that caught my eye: each places our global food system squarely on the climate table.</i></span></div>
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<i><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456697888920_6873" style="font-size: small;">The first step in prioritising food systems is to confront what will happen if we don't. On Tuesday at COP21 the World Food Program and the U.K.'s Met Office Hadley Centre launched a new, interactive mapping tool that predicts, in unprecedented detail, how future climate scenarios could influence food security, especially in the world's developing nations. Based on five years of meteorological and agricultural research, the Food Insecurity and Climate Change Vulnerability Map shows how food security could change at the individual country level, either worsening or improving depending on three variables that users can tweak on the map: time scale (you can choose between the present day,</span> <span id="yiv5817626817yui_3_16_0_1_1449281150131_6692" style="font-size: small;">2050s, 2080s), emissions (low, medium, high), and adaptation (high, low, none).<br id="yiv5817626817yui_3_16_0_1_1449281150131_7032" />As a starting point, the map could help countries forecast their food security risk and inform their planning, says Richard Choularton, chief of climate and disaster risk reduction at the World Food Programme. "The results of the analysis can provide some insight into vulnerability at the national level, when the specific factors behind the index are unpacked." For example, in one country road access might emerge as the main limit on food security, in another it might be the variability of rainfall. The map also shows what can be achieved if reduced emissions are paired with increased adaptive measures—like climate-smart agriculture—to make food systems more secure. "What's most important, especially in the context of Paris, is that mitigation or adaption alone is not enough," Choularton says. "We need a very serious combination of both."<br id="yiv5817626817yui_3_16_0_1_1449281150131_7028" /></span></i></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456697888920_6994" style="font-size: medium;">No one should have any quarrel with the contention above that Carbon emission, carbon lock up and enormous food waste taking place around the world are the most critical areas which need to be tackled. Reckless use of fossil fuels, especially by the industrially developed countries for ensuring a luxury life style speaks of a mindset that sacrifices will have to come from poor countries in the form of mandatory reduction of carbon emission though they are on the threshold of exciting economic growth and improvements in their living conditions. Similarly the enormous food waste that is taking place in advanced countries is depriving the poor people of their food needs for survival in the continents of Asia, Africa and South America. Use of these wastes considered enormous go for landfills generating green house gases that contribute to global warming. The responsibility to arrest the catastrophic climate changes rests both with the poor as well as the rich countries of this planet and a give and take approach only can produce tangible results in the coming years. </span></div>
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<span id="yiv5353518492yui_3_16_0_1_1456117945768_77252" style="font-size: small;">It is true that obesity is assuming epidemic proportions in countries like USA where almost one third of the population is either overweight or obese. Therefore any suggestion that can help to deal with highly dangerous global situation is worth getting a close attention provided it is logical, scientific and practical. What is tragic is that there is no unanimity about the exact cause of obesity though different experts opine differently defying any consensus. While consumption of saturated fats and trans fats, carbohydrates, white sugar and high fructose corn syrup are all implicated in one way or the other with obesity, the bitter truth is that humans are themselves responsible for this scourge visiting them through reckless dietary system combined with sedentary life style. There is unanimity that putting on body weight is directly linked to an imbalance between calorie intake and calorie expenditure and if the intake is more than what is necessary, even God cannot help in preventing increased body weight!. Though the theory is so simplistic to understand and to be acted upon by the people, the desire to eat good food ( purely from taste angle) over rides the need to keep the body weight constant for an adult. In other words, the will to moderate food consumption according to one's body needs seems to be lacking in case of most consumers resulting in over consumption. One of the curious facts is that healthy foods are invariably less tastier that nutrient light junk foods with lots of calories loaded in them and naturally such foods more or less create a sort of irresistible addiction, repeatedly attracting the hapless consumer!.</span></div>
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<span id="yiv5353518492yui_3_16_0_1_1456117945768_77523" style="font-size: small;">Billions of dollars are being made by the so called nutraceutical industry through peddling of hundreds of products claiming the magical properties of shedding body weight though their credentials are suspect. With food safety authorities choosing to look the other way without coming to the help of the citizen through appropriate control measures, the antiobesity products industry has a roaring time with their uncanny marketing strategy to trap vulnerable people like a "spider trapping its prey in its web"! In parallel with this development, another segment of the industry peddles "exercise" machines and crash "weight shedding courses" for the benefit of overweight people minting enormous fortunes. Who can forget the "famous" (or notorious?) Atkins diet or the South Beach diet and similar weight control regime peddling companies who were able to attract millions of people, scared about the ill consequences of high BMI which can cause a plethora of diseases including diabetes, hypertension, CVD, kidney ailments etc, crippling the life style even at an early stage of life. </span></div>
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<span id="yiv5353518492yui_3_16_0_1_1456117945768_77773" style="font-size: small;">Latest to get the spot light is a romatic product going by the captivating name "antiobesity oil"! Though there are some traditional oil based concoctions in the market coming mostly from China and India, the new offering by the above name got a focused attention during the recent scientists conglomeration at Mysooru in the first week of January this year. According the flamboyant innovators, the antiobesity oil they just discovered could "maintain healthy body weight", provides "clean energy" and "is not stored" as fat in the body. This product is claimed to have been developed for the "first time" in India from sunflower seed oil and it is "one of the kind in the world"! Added to this the antiobesity oil prepared at Mysooru is safety assured unlike similar ones developed elsewhere in the world, so goes the claim. According to the innovators this product is chemically identified as diacylglycerol oil which is supposed to be edible because the only difference between an edible oil as we are used to at present and their new product is that one of the three fatty acid molecules in the triglyceride oil products has been knocked off by controlled lipolysis. If the new product can be commercially made and approved by the food safety authorities in the country it can be a speciality edible oil for use by obese people to reduce their body weight. Of course the food industry needs to be convinced that the technology is "commercially workable" and economically viable. </span></div>
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<span id="yiv5353518492yui_3_16_0_1_1456117945768_78267" style="font-size: small;">Let us look at the claim that such a product has been made for the first time in the world in India. Looking back one cannot forget that in early 2000 a product called "Enova oil" was developed and marketed in Japan claiming that less of this product is stored as visceral fat in the body unlike triglycerides which are the basic chemical entities of all edible oils. This product also boasted of unsaturated fatty acids which are known to reduce undesirable LDLs and raise desirable HDLs in the blood. However this product was abruptly recalled from the market because of several safety and health issues. One of them was the formation of glycidol during deacylation of the oil, an artifact implicated as potentially carcinogenic. Besides the ratio of Omega- 6 to Omega-3 fatty acids was 10:1 in Enova oil whereas most healthy vegetable oils have this ratio 3:1. High percentage of Omega-6 acids is reported to be associated with higher blood pressure and chronic inflammation. Thus the charmed marketing run of Enova oil abruptly ended in September 2009. Though the manufacturers promised to come back with the product soon, till to date there is no sign of this product, leading one to conclude that the technological and health problems were serious enough for the company to abandon it for ever. </span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456148341340_6852" style="font-size: small;">Another interesting fact which did not come to surface when the benefits of diacyl glycerol were glorified by the innovators pertains to its suitability for use as a frying fat. Most Indian preparations expose them to high temperatures between 160C and 210C and many conventional oils do cause frothing and foaming if the free fatty acid content is high in them. Also the mono glycerides of fatty acids are recognized as an excellent emulsifying agent in preparations where stable water in oil emulsions are to be made and in most counties their use in small quantities as emulsifier is approved as safe. According to FAO-WHO Alimentarius Commission daily intake of 12.5 to 25 mg of monoglycerides per kg body weight is considered safe. This works out to about 0.75 to 1.5 gm intake daily through all the foods consumed by an average person weighing 70 kg. Such data on diacyl glycerol are not readily available though it is generally assumed that the lipolytic enzymes present human body may be able to dispose of the product without much harmful effect. Against such a background if the new so called anti obesity oil is really going to be made for Indian consumers, adequate safety studies and tolerance limits will have to worked out before its clearance as a cooking oil..</span></div>
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It is an irrefutable fact that india is one of the top sugar producing countries in the world as well the top sugar consuming country. Whether these achievements are due to the extraordinary skills of the farmer, efficiency of the sugar industry or the proactive government policy interventions, is a tough question that begs for an answer. Another crucial issue is whether this most regulated industry is really healthy providing equity to all the stakeholders, the farmer, consumer and the industry. Though we call India a market driven economy, when it comes to sugar industry it is government driven with neither the industry nor the farmers being truly happy. Some time one feels that sugar is a product that has got more importance that it deserves. Its consumption at high levels has been implicated in a variety of lifestyle diseases like diabetes and obesity and still this is one commodity government considers as an essential one to be included as an item for subsidy under essential commodity basket distributed through PDS! </div>
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Is sugar really an essential commodity? A highly debatable question. Health experts world over point out the havoc sugar has brought about among the population in developed countries like the US. It is an irrefutable fact that two out of three Americans are either over weight or obese and high consumption of sugar has been implicated as the major cause for this epidemic. As against the recommended maximum consumption of 45 grams of added sugar per day for sound health, the present average consumption of almost 180 grams per day proves the point that over consumption is responsible for the health crisis being faced by that country. The US seems to be on a suicidal course as its consumption of sugar and refined wheat flour is incongruously high reported at 60-65 kg each per capita annually. White flour from wheat is equally dangerous as its GI values are even higher than that of white sugar and this flour is the major ingredient in practically all the food products including bread, biscuits and cookies, pastry products, pizza, pasta and noodles and others. Can India learn a lesson from the experience of this country to prevent a catastrophic situation where people with increasing income opt for a lifestyle that is characterized by high sugar and white flour consumption? </div>
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Sugar consumption in India is estimated to be 20 kg per capita per year which works out to about 60 grams per day, considered tolerable from health angles but the average figure hides the real fact that extent of daily consumption can vary enormously with poor segments of the population consuming much less than the average figure while well to do citizens might be taking sugar at a level higher than the average. Similarly taking refined flour (Maida) intake which also contributes to quick boost in blood glucose, the production by roller flour mills is comparatively low More than 65% of the wheat produced in the country is milled in conventional plate mills (Chakkis) and the healthy whole wheat flour (Atta) from them is consumed directly by the households for making many traditional preparations. The 900 and odd roller flour mills just produce about 12 million tons of maida which works out to just 10 kg per capita per year and therefore this is considered to have insignificant adverse impact on the health. Probably the relatively low incidence of life style disorders like diabetes in India can be explained by the lower consumption of sugar and maida by the vast majority of the population. Still any rise in sugar price due to a long term policy of restricting sugarcane cultivation or encouraging fuel alcohol will be good for the health of the consumer and economic well being of the farmer as well as the industry in the long run.</div>
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Series of farmer suicides in the sugar belt during the last few years raises the inevitable question whether government should really micromanage the industry or leave it to the market forces to determine the extent of sugarcane cultivation in the country from time to time. It is an anachronism that while the country is facing huge shortages of pulses and oilseeds which are the backbones of nutrition especially for vegetarian population, during the last two decades precious little has been done to shore up their production. The country is watching with dismay shortages of these critical foods in the market and escalating prices that deny many people access to these critical food components in India diet. Billions of rupees worth imports are taking place expending our precious foreign exchange and India has the unenviable position of being the biggest importer of edible oils in the world! As most of the sugarcane cultivation is carried out in areas in 6 states where irrigation facilities have been created to help farmers to grow this crop, pulses are relegated to the background growing mostly as drought crops with meager productivity. Successive governments must answer for this criminal negligence of both pulses and oilseed crops that has condemned the nation to a nutrient starved one. Can this be condoned? </div>
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It is rather amazing that sugar is intricately linked to vote bank politics and to say that the industry is controlled by a few sugar barons with political power and clout is an understatement!. Successive governments have played into the hands of the sugar industry by instituting regulatory controls that distort the sugar landscape in the country. It is an irrefutable fact that vast number of people are employed by the sugar industry and tinkering with it may turn out to be disastrous if not carefully planned. What will happen if the sugar industry is totally deregulated leaving it to the pulls and pressures of the market? If sugar prices to day are ridiculously low making the entire industry sick, the responsibility must be borne by successive governments which held it in its vice like grip because of vote bank considerations. Why should the government give unlimited licenses to sugar mills which eventually become sick though those well connected politically prosper because of many reasons? If such a total decontrol takes place only fittest ones will survive and there may be temporary hike in prices for the consumer which will not be felt especially when food costs are constantly on rise without the consumers raising any serious alarm.</div>
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It is said that when India sneezes the sugar world catches the cold! This is because of the influence of surplus sugar lying with sugar mills which are not allowed to be exported beyond a certain limit and naturally if too much is exported the global prices crash and vice versa. With the recent decision by the government to mandate blending of petrol to the extent of 10% with ethyl alcohol the demand from the fuel industry is likely to grow manifold. However has the country enough capacity to produce alcohol from sources like molasses at present? Probably not and is it not then incumbent upon the government to give priority for more production of alcohol rather than white sugar? Brazil has shown to the world how sugarcane crop can be harnessed to make more sustainable fuels and its example ought to be followed by India. If sugarcane crop is diverted for alcohol production there might be some price hiccups in the market but consumers will not mind it when they are already coughing up Rs 150-200 for a kilogram of commonly used pulses. </div>
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Look at the global scenario vis-a-vis sugar and alcohol. Brazil produces more than 35 million tons (mt) of sugar compared to India's production of 28.5 mt in an year. While Brazil exports 23.8 mt of sugar Indian export is pegged at 2.5 mt reflecting the high control government has on the sugar industry in the country. World wide sugar production and consumption are more less balanced though the industry carries a large stock as a buffer against wide price fluctuations. Brazil is also in the fore front in utilizing sugarcane for alcohol production as recently it has increased the mandatory blending level from 25 to 27% Interestingly Brazil uses only 40% of its cane production for making sugar while the balance goes for alcohol production. In contrast India has not even been able to enforce effectively the 5% blending policy so far and the reason attributed to this shoddy performance is shortage of alcohol in the country..It is against this background that government has to think of diverting the sugarcane crop directly to produce alcohol instead of relentlessly pursuing sugar production through unnecessary and burdensome subsidization policies. Government does not seem to be worried about the enormous outgo of foreign exchange on import of petroleum fuels and an effective policy to ensure alcohol blending can substantially reduce our petroleum import bills. As added bonus the country will be able to reduce its carbon foot print significantly as ethanol-petrol blend is less polluting compared to petroleum fuels. </div>
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As a part of such a policy the country must incentivize setting up alcohol production units which can directly convert sugarcane juice into ethanol. If the avowed policy of mandating 20% blending by 2017 is to be realized India will need about 4.5 billion liters from the current production base of 1.5 bn liters of fuel grade ethanol. Though the established capacity of 350 distilleries is placed at 1.5 bn liters, they also produce rectified spirit to the extent of 4 bn liters per annum for industrial and other uses. It may be difficult to divert the latter to fuel ethanol production as it will adversely affect the industry which uses alcohol as its feed stock. As increasing biofuel ethanol production solely from molasses is impractical, direct conversion of crushed sugarcane juice seems to the only alternative available to the country. One ton of sugarcane is supposed to yield 70 liters of alcohol and naturally a huge quantity of sugarcane may have to be diverted to direct ethanol production which could limit sugar production to some extent. Sooner the government takes a policy decision on this crucial sector better it will be for the country. .</div>
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<span id="yiv6095604943yui_3_16_0_1_1450965917105_24876" style="font-size: small;">What do we understand by the oft used word PET when it comes to food packing? Probably common man may have no clue about the chemical nature and the implications underlying its use by the food industry. But there is a general awareness that all plastics are not good when it comes to their use for food contact applications. It is true that plastic materials, mostly made from fossil fuels, have taken over the lives of people in to day's world because of convenience and cost. Glass and metal containers are unbearably costly though they are much more safer than plastics. There are a number of plastic materials varying in their characteristics and functionality and food industry has a wide choice before them for packing foods. Protection from air, moisture and tainting from the environment are the primary concerns when plastics are used as far as the industry is concerned but environmentalists are more worried about the pollution caused by the used plastics which take more than 800 years to be completely degraded in nature. World over restrictions are being placed on use of plastics and make recycling a priority to save the planet. </span></div>
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<span id="yiv6095604943yui_3_16_0_1_1450965917105_25067" style="font-size: small;">Quality and safety requirements of plastics vis-a-vis food contact applications are more or less standardized though there could be small variations in the methodology used to determine their suitability. Safety authorities in developed countries focus on the foods consumed in their countries and tests using model systems reflecting these foods are used to arrive at the permissibility of various packaging materials. However in India there is a sea change in the chemical, physical, biological and sensory characteristics of foods we eat here and therefore the interaction between food and the packaging materials used needs to be assessed by appropriately tailor made tests. The safety aspects of some of the packing materials used for ethnic foods or traditionally consumed foods in this country have not yet been determined conclusively as the authorities concerned is rather slow in tackling this crucial issue with any sense of urgency. The responsibility of the plastic manufacturer ends once a certificate is generated by testing laboratories using standard testing protocols involving simulated solvent systems for acidic, neutral and alkaline foods. What is appalling is that once such a certificate is produced the manufacturer can produce tons and tons of the materials and sell to the food industry without any further overseeing or vigilance from independent authorities. </span></div>
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<span id="yiv6095604943yui_3_16_0_1_1451542001350_45637" style="font-size: small;">The issue of safety of PET bottles for packing pharmaceutical products became a debating one after some concern was raised recently and the government's knee-jerk reaction in setting up a committee to "look" this controversy. Consumers are genuinely concerned about the impact of packing medicines in PET bottles which is becoming a standard practice of the industry which finds it a better packing material compared to glass due to logistical and economic reasons. This has compelled the authorities to arbitrate on this issue. The demand of consumer organizations and environmentalists to ban PET plastics must be based on an assessment of the balance between risk and advantages and scientific data therefore is necessary. The government approved testing laboratory to which this problem was referred, came out with a shocking conclusion that PET bottles are not safe for packing liquid drug formulations because of high levels of leachates passed on to the contents from the container. The controversy became more "controversial" because both drug industry as well as the plastic industry questioned the veracity of the report alleging that too few samples were tested and no important decision should be taken based on the findings of a single laboratory. Probably they may have a valid argument and further testing can be ordered in multiple laboratories controlled by the government on a proprity. </span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1451654025276_6947" style="font-size: medium;">If we go back to history of this problem it was due to the diligence of an Uttarakhand-based non-governmental organization (NGO) that works in the health sector which raised this issue requesting the ministry of health to impose a ban on the use of PET for pharmaceutical packaging. The present impasse is due to the testing results showing high levels of some chemicals in the products tested. The Government is sitting on the recommendations of a technical group set up to examine this issue which categorically suggested banning of liquid pharmaceutical formulations to be packed in PET bottles and eventually extend this ban to the entire industry. More concerns were expressed with regard to the potential impact of the contaminants leaching out from the bottle on the health of children and other consumers with normal health as well as with weak state of health. There are documentary evidences to support the adverse impact of leachates like Chromium, Antimony, Lead and Diethylhexyl Phthalate at concentrations much beyond the safety limits. According to experts health risks to people can manifest in the form of diseases like cancer, diabetes, endocrine damage kidney damage, reproductive diseases and obesity when these contaminants are present at levels far exceeding the safety standards and this cannot be ignored that easily. calling for emergency measures to tackle this issue once for all.</span></div>
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<span id="yiv6095604943yui_3_16_0_1_1451542001350_49015" style="font-size: small;">An interesting argument put forward by the packaging industry is that instead of banning PET blindly, some way should be found to modify the technology of manufacture of this commercially important material to make it safer. A larger question that begs for an answer is why the industry did not take adequate precaution before and was indulging in making and selling a material of doubtful safety credentials? Similarly why it should have been left to an NGO to raise this issue of grave concern where as a responsible and diligent government with enormous powers at its command was sleeping over it all these years with least concern for the health of the 1.3 billion people it is "ruling"? Is it not criminal and shameful? Probably there will be lot of "passing the buck" game when some thing seriously happens due to possible systematic poisoning of its helpless citizens! God forbid such a contingency.</span></div>
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<span id="yiv6095604943yui_3_16_0_1_1451542001350_49224" style="font-size: small;">What is perplexing in this entire saga is whether PET bottles and films are safe for packing water, beverage and foods? In India food safety is a portfolio in the domain of the Health Ministry which incidentally also controls the drug industry. Though there are a few reports indicating that PET bottles are safe for packing water, beverages and most food products, there is no clarity as to the minimum thickness of the bottle, impact of long storage and exposure to temperatures prevalent in tropical countries. The same question that has bedevilled the drug industry vis-a-vis use of pet bottles for packing drug formulations does bother the food sector also and there is practically no report of any real time study using any food product packed in such containers. Here again the safety is assumed or presumed based on model systems using standard solvents and solutions which might not really represent any foods we consume in this country. Also to be borne in mind is that in the absence of overseeing of the PET production facilities, food industry has to depend on the unilateral view of the manufacturers that their bottles are food grade. If toxic materials like Chromium, Lead, Antimony and Diethylhexyl phthalate have been found in drug preparations in quantities beyond the permitted levels, there is all the more reason that chemically complex food can leach out much more of them over the duration of their shelf life. It is a million dollar question as to why the Indian government and the research institutions specialized in food, packaging, health and toxicology controlled by it are sleeping over the issue for so long! </span></div>
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<span id="yiv6095604943yui_3_16_0_1_1451631740122_5131" style="font-size: small;">While the issue of safety of pet bottles for packing food and medicines is sill being debated, there is a tug of war between the PET industry and glass industry, both of them having a vested interest in the business generated by the products they make. According to the PET bottle industry more than 200 manufacturing may have to close shop if the Government enforces an across the board ban for food, beverages and pharma products which together account for about Rs 2000 crores market, almost 50% of the total production of 6 lakh tons per annum. In contrast glass bottle industry which was once the prime materials used by both food and pharma industries is witnessing a decline in its growth because of the increasing preference shown for PET bottles. One of the last bastions for glass bottle is the liquor industry which consumes almost 50% of the production estimated at about 3 million tons per annum probably because of the ability of glass to retain the flavor in its original form. Only cheap liquors have switched over to PET bottles in preference to glass because of cost considerations. If banning of PET bottles does materialize there is no option for the industry but to go back to glass bottles. Thus what is a lose to PET industry will be a gain for the glass industry. We will have to wait and see how the situation is going to develop in the next few months. In the mean time glass industry must invest in new technologies that can give glass bottles with lighter weight and extra strength to with stand rigors of handling and transportation . </span></div>
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<span id="yiv5916863257yui_3_16_0_1_1451369749907_2829">World over the consumer right to know what is offered as food by its makers is recognized and it is for this reason that the food manufacturers are forced to declare unambiguously the ingredients used and the nutrition it offers for which mandatory label provisions have been evolved. Each country has opted for a standard format of its own to be followed by the makers of foods in the county. Though there may be variations in the details of the declaration, basically these labels are insisted upon so that an average consumer knows about the quantity, price, ingredients, allergic and health affecting constituents, manufacturing date and batch number, best before date etc.Because of the realization that consumer may be more discerning in his choice of food, most important items to be included on the label vis-s-vis health are calories, fat, sugar, proteins and some micronutrients. While in India food processing industry has to abide by the law regarding labeling, what is galling is that such demands are not made on the public eateries which offer freshly cooked foods either served in regular brick and mortar restaurants or the informal unorganized street vending outlets though their products have neither any standards of identity in the statute books nor the liability for any food poisoning episodes. When packaged food food business is comparatively small considering that millions of people eat outside their home in such eateries, why these players are not asked to tell their patrons the basic composition of the foods they offer? </span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1451542001350_39453">During the last few years eating out scenario has dramatically changed with more and more people being pulled by fast food restaurants, food trucks and street vendors which naturally would have affected the growth of the so called "brick and mortar" eateries.The eternal debate regarding the quality and safety of products offered by casual eateries will go on and on, with no clear answer emerging soon. Whether one likes it or not the current trend of faster growth of the informal sector of catering will continue and the catering sector as a whole has to take this in its stride. Why do more and more people like street foods in preference to going to a "standard" restaurant which at least ensures some accountability that can be enforced? Is it the price factor? Or is it the convenience factor that decides? Very difficult to get any definite answer though both must have some thing to do with such shifting of consumer loyalty. If we go by western standards the fast food industry registered phenomenal growth riding on the consumer desire to save time on eating and later it emerged that these new formats of eateries could also offer good "tasting" foods at comparatively lower prices. Lately the fast food food sector is however being hit badly by the new consumer awareness about health and the relentless onslaught of obesity caused by their low nutrient density food preparations though some of the major ones are in the process of overhauling their menu to make their products more healthy.</span></div>
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<span id="yiv5916863257yui_3_16_0_1_1451361798942_18029">In India street food vendors are omnipotent across the urban and semi urban areas working unobtrusively occupying some of the important arterial and busy streets where crowds do collect in the evenings. Though from time to time concerns have been raised regarding the adverse impact of these street foods on the health of the citizens, civic administrations find it difficult to do any thing to discourage the working of these vendors due to humanitarian and political reasons. Neither is there any organized attempt either at the national or state level to improve the system with active policy intervention. Major issues that bother the health experts are the sanitary and safety problems inherent in such a situation where quality of inputs like water, raw materials and cooking environment cannot be considered satisfactory with most vendors. Besides disposal wastes and total lack of toilet facilities nearby make consuming these foods relatively a risk taking venture! Still it has to be conceded that there are thousands and thousands of street hawkers eking out a living through street vending giving it a socio-economic flavor. </span></div>
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<span id="yiv5916863257yui_3_16_0_1_1451361798942_18277">It is against such a background one has to listen to the discourse from the Consumer Affairs Minister at Delhi that Indians are confused by the labels on packaged foods, especially when it comes to the "best before" date and declared that it would be replaced with "expiry date" so that consumer can decide not to buy date expired products. The assumption is that date expired foods can be dangerous while many foods even after the best before date are still edible and safe to consume. May be there is a point in what the Minister has said because even the United Nations agencies have declared that enormous waste of food all over the world, especially in affluent countries is unconscionable. But what is the technical feasibility of arriving at at an expiry date for any food? After all food is a complex cocktail of organic molecules and any prediction regarding interactions among them may be somewhat difficult. Drawing any parallel between food industry and its counterpart in the pharmaceutical sector is not sustainable as most drug preparations have one or two active ingredients and what happens to them over a period of time can be easily assessed through model studies. </span></div>
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<span id="yiv5916863257yui_3_16_0_1_1451361798942_18495">While government is becoming more and more demanding when it comes to organized industry, the unorganized sector like street vending goes without much of an oversight by the safety agencies. Whether declaration of ingredients or expiry date such rules are enforced only when the players are registered with government regulatory authorities. It is still fresh in our memory as to how the safety regulator in this country systematically hounded the manufacturer of a particular brand of instant noodles slapping on them the unsustainable charge of their products being unsafe due to excessive levels of lead or mono sodium glutamate though there are many others producing the same not subjected to any scrutiny. It is misfortune of the citizens of this country that we are saddled with a food safety "management" agency which believes more in applying the law in letter rather than the spirit behind them. The instant noodle episode is a standing testimony to the character and culture of this agency. The appalling and archaic food safety vigilance and enforcement infrastructure controlled by state level departments cannot instill much confidence among the consumers that things will improve one day! </span></div>
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<span class="yiv5916863257" id="yiv5916863257yui_3_16_0_1_1451369749907_3493">The Consumer Affairs Minister was forthcoming regarding his ideas to stream line the street vendors by establishing specialized food vendors' zones to shift the existing vendors so that the quality of foods served would be much better though it is not clear as to how the central government can orchestrate the policy in an area considered coming under the state's power. Also he should have suggested that all food vendors, in the organized as well as in the informal sectors, must follow a declaration format containing some basic information regarding the two most important components, total calories and total fat to begin with. Why</span><span class="yiv5916863257" id="yiv5916863257yui_3_16_0_1_1451369749907_3495"> he was not considering this as important may be due organized objections the restaurant sector would raise citing technical difficulties in providing such information to their customers. Though this may be a valid argument it is not insurmountable.because such information can be generated with enormous technical resources available in government funded food laboratories in the country. A still better approach could be to generate data on the Indian culinary preparations and lay down guidelines for some of them for the catering industry to follow. </span></div>
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Dr. V.H . Pottyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11500499095968478516noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6273134730103617921.post-82474637581411085612015-12-21T07:30:00.000+05:302015-12-21T10:33:23.249+05:30Development of boutique chocolates-Will emergence of such premium products sustain the industry?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span id="yiv4508517082yui_3_16_0_1_1450408100780_40090" style="font-family: inherit;">Why do people like chocolate products? For their flavor, texture or taste? Probably this is a complicated question and answering it may be as complex as the products themselves! While most kids eat chocolates because of the sweetness and the overall texture and mouth feel, there may be many adults who can be connoisseurs of chocolates looking for some perceived traits which are not easy to be contoured or defined. Think about other beverage crops like coffee, tea or spirits and the consumer expectations can be as varied as the chemical complexity of the products themselves! Coffee tasters, tea tasters and wine tasters are a class by them selves and even to day, despite the tremendous advances made by analytical chemistry, no instrument has been universally accepted as a true tool to take a decision regarding the beverage quality. Probably the reason is that most flavors are made up of hundreds of chemicals with complex molecular structure and even to day 100% identification has not been achieved. Also making the issue more complicated is the relative effect of each component whether minor or major on the flavor bouquet characteristic of each product. This is true with cocoa flavor also. Manufacture of chocolate products has been standardized long ago and there is very little variation in its technology because the technology is highly machine oriented with very little leeway to manipulate. However this seems to be changing with some incisive research being carried out by a few major players in this sector and the result is emergence of specialty premium chocolates with varied bouquet value. Here is a take on this important breakthrough that can boost the bottom line of chocolate industry through marketing value added chocolates with significant flavor differentiation.</span></div>
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<span id="yiv4508517082yui_3_16_0_1_1450418654075_4848" style="font-family: inherit;">If one looks back at the history of beverage industry coffee and tea were the dominating ones with world's consumers vertically divided between the two. According to available data, world produces about 9 million tons (mt) of coffee and 5 mt of tea and this gives one an impression that latter is a poor cousin of the former! But a relook at this issue will reveal that such a conclusion is too simplistic to accept because the quantity required to make a cup of coffee is three times that of tea and there fore in terms of volume of the beverage consumed tea beats coffee globally. Is it not interesting that <i>per capita </i>annual consumption of coffee is highest in Americas and Europe while Asia and the former Soviet Union countries are predominantly tea drinkers. Where does cocoa fit into this picture? it is well known that coco beans production largely goes for making chocolate products like cocoa mass, compounded sweetened chocolates, chocolate liquor and cocoa powder. It is the cocoa powder which finds its way to beverages like hot chocolates, drinking chocolates and as a flavoring material for candies, confectioneries biscuits , cookies and pastries. Therefore cocoa is never a competitor as a beverage material for coffee and tea. </span></div>
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<span id="yiv4508517082yui_3_16_0_1_1450418654075_5274" style="font-family: inherit;">Chocolate industry is supposed to have manufactured and marketed about 7.5 mt last year using cocoa beans grown in countries like Ivory Coast, Indonesia, Ghana, Nigeria and a few other countries. The chocolate quality is mostly determined by the variety of beans from which it is made and major chocolate players use the much preferred<i id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450660024881_4940"> Forastero </i>variety which predominates the production though <i>Criollo </i>is considered a much superior variety being used exclusively for making premium chocolate products. The third variety <i id="yiv4508517082yui_3_16_0_1_1450592572267_35924">Trinitario</i> accounts for a fraction of the cocoa trade. The quality differentiation of chocolate products is mostly based on the variety used, fair trade practice adopted by growers including child labor, environment degradation, safety credentials,eating characteristics and handling modes. The health attributes attached to cocoa flavonoids raised the standing of this crop overnight into a frenetic consumer obsession which was tapped by the industry to churn out the so called bitter chocolates with lesser and lesser sugar and more cocoa solids. However bitter chocolates are appreciated only by a few health conscious consumers and therefore manufacturers have been looking for other USPs for increasing demand for chocolate products. The new line of research is leading the industry to design more niche products with higher price tag. Success seems to have come their way recently when researchers started studying the strains of yeast which are responsible to ferment the pulp in cocoa pods during post harvest processing operations, producing many flavoring materials that impart characteristic flavors to chocolate products. . </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span id="yiv4508517082yui_3_16_0_1_1450408100780_36344">Thanks to the innovative efforts of Belgian researchers working in close collaboration with the chocolate industry, robust yeast strains have been isolated from the fermenting pulp and using these pure cultures different types of bouquet have been created giving individual personality to them. In the traditional fermentation process mostly carried out near the growing areas, the broken cocoa pods are allowed to get fermented by natural microbes, mostly wild yeasts, to depectinize and generate many artifacts that later impart a complex web of flavors to the final product. By isolating a number of strains and studying their metabolic history the scientists were able to create a pool of strains of yeast which can produce a range of flavors singly or in combination.</span><a class="yiv4508517082edited-link-editor yiv4508517082edited-link-editor" href="http://www.gizmag.com/belgian-scientists-use-hybrid-yeasts-to-create-boutique-chocolates/40530/?utm_source=Gizmag+Subscribers&utm_campaign=04cf757101-UA-2235360-4&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_65b67362bd-04cf757101-90820233" id="yiv4508517082yui_3_16_0_1_1448272768475_3498" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white;" target="_blank">.</a><span id="yiv4508517082yui_3_16_0_1_1450418654075_5914"> This makes it possible to create a new range of boutique chocolates that can match particular flavors in the same way that craft beer, coffee, tea, and wine can. What the team first hoped to do was to find robust strains of yeast that would quickly dominate the others and shorten the fermentation time, allowing cocoa producers better control over the chocolate's taste. It turned out that the different robust strains produced markedly different flavors and aromas. This was despite the fact that the recipe and fermentation process for each one was identical. The team then began to breed the yeast strains and created new hybrids that formed strong flavors that were retained in the final product, instead of getting lost due to their volatility, being trapped in the fat. This means that for the first time, chocolate makers have a broad portfolio of different yeast strains that are all producing different flavors. </span></span></div>
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<span id="yiv4508517082yui_3_16_0_1_1450418654075_6007" style="font-family: inherit;">Whoever is not familiar with the range of lactic fermented products from milk? Yoghurt is one of the most accepted milk products consumed widely across the world. Look at the efforts of the dairy industry in converting a simple traditional yoghurt into a multibillion dollar roaring industry through differentiation of the fermentation process using combination of lactic acid bacteria like<i id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450660024881_5350"> Lactobacillus delbrueckii, Streptococcus thermophilus, Lactobacillus acidophilus, Bifidus, Casei </i>etc which can make yoghurts with different features. Same way chocolates also will now be available with varying flavor profiles using different strains of yeast for the primary fermentation process followed by standard processing. Whether many consumers will be able to appreciate these value added products and willing to pay premium prices for them, however,remains to be seen. </span></div>
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<span id="yiv4694740791yui_3_16_0_1_1449827603328_6168" style="font-size: small;">A whopping 600 million people on this planet are supposed to be vulnerable to that ubiquitous disorder called allergy caused by the environment, plants, medicines, industrial chemicals and every day foods to which they are exposed. Ominously the population affected by allergic reactions is steadily increasing every year and according to some estimates during a span of 15 years between 1997 and 2011 there was an increase of 50% in the population suffering from one or the other form of allergic disorder. This is attributed largely to the increasing awareness about hygiene and sanitation and the consequent desire of people to keep themselves "clean", "presentable and tolerable" and "keep away infections". Probably increasing use of hundreds of chemicals, especially man made with very little safety data regarding their allergic potential touching all activities of day to day living, must be responsible for the increasing cases of allergy though there are no reliable data to support such an inference conclusively. Another uncertainty is the real impact of wide scale consumption of genetically modified foods (GMO) consumed in many countries though no concrete evidence has yet been unearthed regarding their relationship. In a country like USA 80% of the diet of an average citizen is made up of GMO foods and the incidence of food allergy is highest in that country. Imagine almost 10% of the population in USA are affected by food allergy! According to some estimates the world is bearing a financial burden of more than $ 30 billion a year due to this disorder. </span></div>
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<span id="yiv4694740791yui_3_16_0_1_1449827603328_6484" style="font-size: small;">Why are people so scared of allergens which can be found every where and when exposure to them is continuous? A major reason is the potential for some of the allergens to cause even death as the ultimate outcome of a chain of events initiated by them in human beings affected by exposure to them though very few deaths have been reported because of allergens. What is alarming about the allergic reactions is that it can manifest suddenly with no warning and medical response time available may be too short with disastrous consequences. The non-uniform symptoms, besides being too varied, are difficult to be deciphered unless they are very severe. The situation gets more complicated when some of such symptoms occur due to non-allergic reactions or food intolerance or food poisoning and toxins. Symptoms of allergic reactions normally include red eyes, itchy rash, runny nose, shortness of breath, swelling and anaphylaxis where as food intolerance, mostly confined to the GI tract can manifest itself as migraine head ache, outbreak of acne, stomach ache or bloating of the body. Even indigestion can be termed as food intolerance. Major focus so far has been on food allergy caused by some foods and universally eight foods have been designated as allergic foods which are compulsorily to be declared on the label for the consumers to know about it and those allergic can avoid buying them. These foods are cow's milk, egg, wheat, soy, peanuts, tree nuts, fish and shellfish. More than 90% of allergic episodes are caused by these eight allergic foods. </span></div>
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<span id="yiv4694740791yui_3_16_0_1_1449827603328_7228" style="font-size: small;">Food allergies are reported more from industrially advanced countries though no one knows for sure why this is so. One factor could be the over dependence of the population on processed foods and industrially made food preparations to the extent of 80% of their daily intake. Here again it is difficult to find any correlation between processed foods and food allergy. Reduced consumption of natural foods which are not refined might be a reason as the characteristic features of GI tract can get altered due to lesser roughage and ease of digestion of processed foods. Scientific evidence shows that infants are more vulnerable to allergic foods as they do not have a strong GI tract with necessary checks and filters to prevent absorption of allergens into the blood stream causing undesirable immunological reactions. Thus children and youngsters below the age of 18 years are more vulnerable to allergic foods probably due to inadequately developed defence system in their guts. With age many of them are likely to come out of this syndrome due to full development of the gut system. Still change of food habits over 3 generations as has happened in many industrialized nations cannot be ruled out as the root cause of allergic population showing alarming increase these days.</span></div>
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<span id="yiv4694740791yui_3_16_0_1_1449893584175_16498" style="font-size: small;">What is disturbing in to day's world is indiscriminate use of chemicals by the processed food industry and though many of them have been approved by competent authorities these clearances are not based on substantial safety studies using critical mass of human subjects. While most people can tolerate them at least in the short term, their long term safety consequences are not very clear. In some people some of these chemicals can produce allergic symptoms which need to be watched by every consumer. Added to this are a flood of ingredients coming under the natural colors and flavors category which are allowed to be used without much restriction though they are to be included in front of the pack label declaration. What is perplexing is that no one is sure what is natural with the result most manufacturers use the word "natural" as long as they do not add any man made chemicals during processing. However these natural ingredients may be harmless in their original condition but many of them undergo transformational changes due to processing using technologies like extraction, fractionation, separation, distillation, hydrolysis , heating , roasting etc raising questions regarding generation of artifacts which may or may not be allergic. Many of the food additives listed under the ubiquitous category of additives to foods commonly referred to as -"Generally Recognized As Safe" or GRAS are potential allergens of future and probably more focus is needed to preempt development of such a dangerous situation in the coming years. </span></div>
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<span id="yiv4694740791yui_3_16_0_1_1449893584175_16891" style="font-size: small;">As food allergy is a major danger these days, it is prudent for every one to be aware of the symptoms and signals that can alert them regarding any episode involving them. By now it is well established that two types allergic manifestations can take place in human beings when the allergen gets into the blood stream. They can fasten on to the IgE antibodies when the reaction can be immediate or react with the immune cells or T-Cells when allergic response may become apparent in 4 to 24 hours. In contrast non-allergic or non-immune adverse reaction such as that happens due to food intolerance is mostly physiological reaction on account of some chemicals present in them. Such chemicals commonly used in processed foods include sulfites, bisulfites, sulphur dioxide, monosodium glutamate, etc or some present naturally like theobromine in cocoa products or caffeine in coffee brew or tyrosine in old cured cheese. There is also another problem with some foods which include toxins and poisons generated or contaminating them. Aflatoxin in pea nuts or poisonous mushrooms or lathyrus factor in kesari dal are classical examples. However the toxic food materials produce symptoms only after certain minimum quantities of such foods are ingested. In other words, they are dose dependent. </span></div>
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<span id="yiv4694740791yui_3_16_0_1_1449901948175_3495" style="font-size: small;">Consumption of foods which are allergic produce excessive amounts of food specific IgE antibodies and the allergens after entering the blood stream react with these antibodies, producing many chemicals including histamines, which affect the gut, skin, nose, lungs, heart and the circulatory system. Anaphylaxis is the extreme manifestation of allergy and the symptoms it produces include itchy rashes on the skin, throat irritation, swelling and low blood pressure. As most allergic reactions cause intense discomfort and some time panic, the most commonly practiced treatment is to immediately administer antihistamine drugs like epinephrine or adrenaline to those developing the symptoms. These days epinephrine auto injector pens are in the market which can deliver measured amounts of antidote with no time lost after symptoms develop. </span></div>
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<span id="yiv4694740791yui_3_16_0_1_1449804096039_14952" style="font-size: small;">For those with severe allergies, eating of processed foods can turn into a life-threatening activity. There is need for vigilance in checking for ingredients before buying a product,and one must be aware that "natural flavors," contained in some of them cannot be taken to be absolutely safe. Probably it is wise to follow the suggestions made by experienced allergy experts to avoid any food allergy reactions. these include:( a)</span><span id="yiv4694740791yui_3_16_0_1_1449804096039_14953" style="font-size: small;">.if one experiences an allergic reaction and does not know the cause, "natural flavors" if present in in the food as declared on the label, must be included to the list of suspects. (b). If one had eaten a product before with no adverse effects, then the allergen to which one is sensitive must probably not in the product. However stress can exacerbate allergic reactions and even if product has only small amount of allergen it might show when under stressed condition. (c)</span><span id="yiv4694740791yui_3_16_0_1_1449804096039_14974" style="font-size: small;">. further enquiry must be done with the manufacturer regarding the presence of the allergen of concern their "natural flavor." </span><span id="yiv4694740791yui_3_16_0_1_1449804096039_14954" style="font-size: small;">(c). It is alaways advisable to go for whole foods devoid of any additives. (d) The surest alternative is to prepare one's own foods from scratch which are safer than naturally flavored prepared foods.(e)</span><span id="yiv4694740791yui_3_16_0_1_1449804096039_14955" style="font-size: small;"> one must also be aware that any foods served in a restaurant may also contain "natural flavors," which will not be disclosed on the menu and invariably allergen of concern may not be in the product description though it may still be in the ingredients used. </span><span id="yiv4694740791yui_3_16_0_1_1449804096039_14956" style="font-size: small;">The "natural flavor" loophole in ingredient labeling means that any food which lists "natural flavors" as an ingredient is potentially hazardous to sensitive people and there fore should be approached with caution.</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1449911726938_4965" style="font-size: small;">Why is that food allergy is not taken aas a serious disorder in India? Possibly lack of authentic documentation by hospitals and practicing physicians could be one of the reasons. Some scattered reports however do indicate that food allergy does exist in the country to some extent and in most cases is confined to foods like Black gram, Pigeon pea (Tur or Arhar), French beans, Horse gram, Lentil, Mustard, Radish, some fruits and milk. No serious cases have been recorded and reported by the Health Ministry of the country warranting any action as of now. But there is no guarantee that the country is immune to this phenomenon in future. With the expansion of food processing sector consequent to economic liberalization and influx of foreign investments and technologies, there is likelihood of significant increase in incidence of food allergy in the coming y<strike>e</strike>ars. </span></div>
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Dr. V.H . Pottyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11500499095968478516noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6273134730103617921.post-70035953479390365442015-12-10T16:25:00.000+05:302015-12-10T16:38:57.619+05:30Honey bees facing a crisis due to "Colony Collapse Disorder" caused by use of neonicotinoid insecticides-The implications on global agriculture<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Honey is a much valued food as well as a well recognized alternate medicine for many simple ailments. While consuming Honey how many people think about the Bees that collect it meticulously, drop by drop from millions of flowers? In these days of man made imitation products that are flooding the market place why should the world be concerned about extinction of bees? After all honey is made of fructose and glucose in 38:31 ratio being the main ingredients though there are other substances like sucrose, maltose and higher sugars and making such a concoction looking and tasting like honey is not a big challenge. Of course natural honey has properties much beyond a man made sugar syrup as vouchsafed by millions who religiously consume it for its variety of real as well as imaginary qualities. Imagine how the tiny bees produce over 1.7 million tons of honey every year through the combined efforts of queen bees, thousands of drone bees and female worker bees painstakingly drop by drop through sucking out nectars from flowers and their transformation through a process of regurgitation. While honey production is a part of nature's way of providing food for the bees, these tiny creatures play a much larger role in the production of foods and other agriculture crops through cross pollination. This is where the mankind is going to be hurt if any thing adverse happens to the bees due to man's folly of doing some thing that can cause affect their population. </div>
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Recent news that Bees are facing extinction because of the reckless pollution of environment causing them to perish in droves through many fatal afflictions does raise concerns that cannot be ignored. It was in 2006 that the phenomenon of colony collapse disorder (CCD) became a serious issue noted with alarm by many countries affecting honey production world wide. Between 2007 and 2013 more than 10 million bee colonies collapsed where most of the "worker" bees were killed leaving only the queen and some drones in their hives which cannot ensure growth of the beehive resulting in collapse of the entire colony. The importance of bees in pollination and crop fertilization is so critical that these simple insects are responsible for the production of agricultural crops worth $ 200 billion annually. Why this has happened is a million dollar question that does not have an absolute answer though factors like use of indiscriminate use of pesticides, global warming and others are being blamed. But to day there appears to be some unanimity regarding the adverse effect of a group of insecticides extensively used coming under the family of neonicotinoids or commonly called neonics which include acetamiprid, nitenpyram, nithiazine, thiacloprid, thiamethoxam and imidacloprid, the last mentioned being used widely to the extent of almost 80% in many countries. Present agricultural practice involves treating the seeds with neonics before sowing which gives protection to the plant from many insects with destructive ability and it is theorized that neonics after getting into the plant through the root system get distributed to every part of the plant including the flowers acting as a deadly poison to bees that come looking for nectar for making honey. </div>
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It was in 1985 that neonicotinoids became a commercial success because of their lesser toxicity to birds and mammals compared to organophosphates and carbamates. Agriculturists also welcomed their arrival because of lower concentrations required to destroy the insects affecting the plants. To day virtually all commercially valued crops like corn, soybean, canola, cotton, sugar beets, apples, cherries, peaches, oranges, berries, tomatoes, potato etc are dependent on neonics for achieving high production due to their ability to stave off insect attacks in the fields. The popularity of neonics is such that it is approved in more than 120 countries across the world for a multitude of agricultural and horticultural crops. After the colony collapse disorder became a major crisis for the honey industry, world started paying more attention to the toxicity of these insecticides, especially to honey bees.Earlier premise that neonics are not toxic to bees had to be reconsidered and reinvestigated in the light of emergence of CCD to evolve a better strategy to save the bees from total extinction.</div>
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Why should the bees be vulnerable to an insecticide like neonics which enjoyed great popularity since 1985? It was found that neonics when ingested by bees had a devastating effect causing eventual death of majority of them in a beehive. Most tragically this neurotoxic chemical impact bees' ability to forage, learn and remember their navigation route to and from food sources and naturally if these disoriented bees do not reach back home the consequences can be imagined. What choice world has under such extenuating circumstances in saving the bees from total extinction and avoid collapse of the honey industry? Logically the insecticide industry which produces neonics worth $ 2.5 billion annually will have hesitation in accepting the reality that neonics are responsible for CCD and can be expected to fiercely fight any proposal to ban them from use in agriculture. Similarly farming community which uses neonics in preference to others also may not be totally convinced about the dangers posed by them. After all neonics account for almost 25% of the insecticide market globally, reflecting its universal popularity. Though the dilemma inherent in taking a decision vis--vis neonics and their ban, Europe took the lead to ban them last year. After recent banning of neonics in Canada probably other countries in the American continent may also follow similar suit though the lobbying power of insecticide industry in a country like USA cannot be underestimated to sabotage such people friendly policies in pursuit of fiscal agenda. . </div>
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While neonics are villains in this mass collapse of beehives, there are other mitigating factors which also must be taken into consideration. It is important to emphasize that other factors like climate change, habitat loss and disease also adversely affect pollinator health. However these factors are not entirely independent and are interrelated. It is to be conceded that chronic exposure to neonics may increase vulnerability of bees to disease. When the health of bees is to be assessed critically there is a need to draw up a comprehensive pollinator health action plan which must address all these factors and obviously scaling back the use of neonics can be a good beginning. Apart from the immediate and lethal effects on bees, neonics represent a more subtle threat to a wide range of species. The 2014 Worldwide Integrated Assessment of the Impacts of Systemic Pesticides, the most comprehensive review of the scientific literature on neonics, pointed to effects on smell and memory, reproduction, feeding behaviour, flight and ability to fight disease.. The obvious conclusion is that the world is witnessing a threat to the productivity of the natural and farming environment reminding one of the dangers posed by organophosphates or DDT in the yesteryear. In stead of protecting food production the use of neonics is "threatening the very infrastructure which enables it, imperilling the pollinators, habitat engineers and natural pest controllers at the heart of a functioning ecosystem". It is better to act now rather than regret later!.</div>
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Dr. V.H . Pottyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11500499095968478516noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6273134730103617921.post-37211978012048134092015-12-07T13:06:00.000+05:302015-12-07T13:21:46.581+05:30Wrapping food in used news paper-A practice with questionable safety issues<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1449465500664_11842" style="font-size: small;">It may appear ridiculous for a westerner to see foods being wrapped in old news paper materials in many countries in Asia such as India, Pakistan, Malaysia etc which is the most practiced way of serving foods by most street vendors. This is due to the thriving market that exists for used news papers in these countries, as millions of copies of publications in English as well as in many local languages are printed and distributed to meet the demands of the reading public. It is amazing that in spite of the high growth of electronic communication system news papers are vividly read by most people to satisfy their hunger for news and information. By the latest count there are over two hundred and fifty major news paper publications alone in India though over 85000 publications are registered in total. In Hindi language itself there are over 156 million copies circulated daily while English papers print another 56 million copies every day. On an average each news paper copy costs about Rs 5 and monthly budget for a reader estimated at Rs 150 for one publication. Most households sell off their old news papers to "raddiwallas" who buy these papers through house to house soliciting. In general a month's paper can fetch about Rs 20 on an investment of Rs 150. Where do these papers end up?</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1449465500664_12008" style="font-size: small;">The curiosity about this subject was aroused by a recent report from Kangar, Malaysia about a ban enforced by the local government on use of old news papers for wrapping food materials due to apprehensions about the safety of the paper wraps for food contact application. Accordingly from January 2016 no food operator is going to be allowed to use printed papers, mostly old news papers for packing of foods and violations can attract punitary fines as high as 10 000 Ringits ( about one and a half lakh rupees) and possible imprisonment of two years. The reason cited by the authorities for taking such a strong policy decision is based on the data generated on the toxicity of chemicals present in news papers that can get migrated easily into the food packed in it. Interestingly the punishment regime was proposed for January next year after giving about 6 months time for the food operators to understand and be well informed about the health implications inherent in use of printed papers. Probably this is a wise move by a government which has the health and well being of the citizens upper most in its mind. </span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1449465500664_11854" style="font-size: small;">In India we consume about 2.5% million tons of news print annually out of which 60% is imported. May be this is not a huge quantity amounting to just 1.8 kg annual per capita compared to 3.5 kg in Asia as a whole and against the global average of 9 kg per capita. In a country like Canada 80% of used paper is recycled whereas in our country the corresponding figure is just 26%. Packing or wrapping in old news papers and other discarded papers is very common in India and those who buy them use the same in a variety of ways. Some make paper bags for packing dry materials while others resell them to retail traders for packing the wares sold by them It is rare that such paper wastes are burned or used in land fills. With the advent of plastics, especially polyethylene and polypropylene, use of paper is increasingly being phased out by the retailers. But use of plastics is also now being frowned upon because of the dangers involved in migration of chemicals, some of them toxic, from the plastic bags to the foods carried in them and use of plastic bags with less than 40 microns thickness is banned in many places in India. This naturally shifts the focus once again on paper though reusable cloth bags are being promoted extensively. With such a dicey situation is the paper usage going to see a spurt in future? May be but the dangers involved must be carefully monitored to prevent any future catastrophe at the national level.</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1449465500664_12543" style="font-size: small;">A curious consumer may be pardoned if he is not convinced about the non-safety of used news papers and other printed paper materials for packing foods. but scientific evidence cannot be brushed away easily. According to toxicologists familiar with hazards of printing inks which are used across the world, there are thousands of chemicals required to be used to get attractive printed products and many of them are highly toxic to human beings. Especially news papers produced using the off set -web printing use very thick consistency inks and a particular type of drying where mineral oil, solvents like methanol, benzene and toluene are used. The heavy metal Cobalt is a part of most of the drying agents. Generally mineral based printed inks are known to contain Mineral Oil Saturated Hydrocarbon (MOSH) and Mineral Oil Aromatic Hydrocarbon (MOAH) which are sources of gases generated by evaporation which can penetrate into foods packed in such papers. The FAO-WHO Alimentarius Commission has set an upper limit of 0.6 mg/kg that can be considered safe intake through food. Besides countless colorants, pigments, binders, additives, photo-initiators etc are present in high quality printing inks, some of them being highly toxic. Some of the chemicals detected in printed papers include Aryl Amines, Benzidine, 2-Naphthylamine, 4-Aminobiphenol etc implicated in cancers affecting bladder and lungs. </span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1449465500664_12998" style="font-size: small;">What type of foods are most vulnerable to dangers due to printed paper packing? Generally dry products with low water and fat are relatively safe to be wrapped for short time while high fat products like <i id="yui_3_16_0_1_1449465500664_13250">Pakoda, Vada, Dosa, Bajji,</i> etc are unsuitable to be packed in these papers. Similarly wet foods are also not considered suitable for news paper packing though the low strength of paper will cause disintegration after a few minutes, thus being a self limiting factor.While focus above has been mostly on used news papers, there is another equally critical area requiring attention when the safety of food packing is considered. According to some estimates Indian generates about 15 million tons of waste papers of all types that include note books, stationery products, envelops, notices, etc and since only quarter of this gets into the recycling stream bulk of it gets used for packing house hold goods including food. What are the safety implications here? They are equally risky when it comes to food wrapping or packing. Another dimension to their safety is the danger posed by pathogenic micro organisms which contaminate the papers when stored for some time under humid conditions in unhygienic places exposing them to open air and atmospheric dust besides vectors like cockroach, insects and house hold pests all of which make their own contribution to make the old news papers a veritable source of microbes with different pathogenicity. </span></div>
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