Mar 30, 2013

FSSAI reconstitutes nutraceutical panel; Anantha Narayana member again

The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), the country's apex food regulator, has reconstituted its scientific panel for functional foods, nutraceuticals, dietetic products and other similar products. This is the third reshuffle of the panel set up to provide scientific opinions to the authority. This will be the third term on the panel for D B Anantha Narayana, expert member, Indian Pharmacopeia Commission.

The panel also comprises V Prakash, former director, Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), distinguished scientist, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), and director, JSS Technical Institution Campus, JSS Centre for Management Studies (JSSCMS), Mysore; K Madhavan Nair, scientist, National Institute of Nutrition (NIN), Hyderabad; Anuja Agarwal, head, dietician, All Indian Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS); Premendra Dhar Dwivedi, principal scientist, Food Toxicology Division, Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow; Kumar Bhatia, chief consultant, post-harvest management and marketing, ministry of agriculture and cooperation; Bikash Chandra Ghosh, principal scientist, Dairy Technology Section, National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI), Bengaluru; Partha, Roy, assistant professor, department of biotechnology, IIT Roorkee; A G Appu Rao, CSIR scientist emeritus, University of Mysore; S Venkata Rao, former area coordinator and head, department of nutrition and food safety, CFTRI, and Sandhya Kulshreshtha, consultant, directorate general of health, New Delhi.

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