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What are Naturally Occurring Toxic Substances – NOTS?

Naturally Occurring Toxic Substances (NOTS) are naturally occurring toxins that are found in certain types of foods, which may be of fungal, plant or marine origin. Fungal Toxins Fungal toxins include the following: Mushroom toxins Aflatoxins Ochratoxins Mushroom Toxins: The Death Cap Mushroom is deadly and its toxins cause 90%

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Natural & Artificial Flavours – What Do the FSSAI Regulations Say?

Flavours can be either natural or artificial. Natural and artificial flavours enhance the taste of the food to make it more appetizing. Flavoring Agents: These include flavoring substances/ extracts/preparations, which give the food its taste or odor or both. Flavoring agents are of three types. Natural Flavours and Natural Flavouring

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Eating Food at the Roadside – What Should You Take Care?

World Health Organization estimates that 600 million people worldwide suffer from consumption of contaminated food, of which 420,000 die. This includes approximately 125,000 children in the under-5 years’ age-group (WHO, 2015). Five-year data (2011-2016) from the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has shown that food-borne outbreaks along with acute

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Desi Ghee vs Vanaspati – Which Will Kill You Sooner?

Ghee, also called clarified butter, originated in India and has been in use since antiquity in food recipes, Ayurvedic medicine, and religious rituals. The market size of ghee in India is INR 10,000 crores as of 2016. India is the world’s largest producer and consumer of ghee. Ghee is an ideal fat for deep frying because of its high smoke

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We are Accredited for Trans Fats Testing in Food

Arbro: Excellence is Our Motto Arbro Pharmaceuticals is one of the largest contract research and testing organizations in India, with five state-of-the-art laboratories and over 300 fully-trained professional staff, serving various industries for over two decades. We at Arbro are dedicated to maintaining high-quality standards for our testing facilities. We

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Are trans fats good for you? – Natural trans fats in milk

Have you heard of natural trans fats in Milk? Before we tell you about this let us first discuss trans fats. Trans fats are partially hydrogenated meaning that they have one or more double bonds in the trans configuration. These trans fats impart solidity to margarine and plasticity to shortenings.

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How do trans fats get into your food?

Trans fats are a type of unsaturated fat, which can occur naturally or can be artificially produced. Naturally-occurring trans fats are produced in the gut of some animals such as cows and sheep and generally account for approximately 2-5% of fat content. The foods made from these animals including meat

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