Back make in India with testing in India

Abstract

“People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health ... and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food,” was the caustic observation of American writer and environmentalist Wendell Berry. While this critiques the organised medical profession’s inattention to nutrition and the role of the food industry, public health votaries recognise the importance of adequate and appropriate nutrition across the life course and are vigilant about the role of the food industry in enabling or endangering health through myriad products that reach our mouths from the market. Hence the outrage at recent reports that Nestlé was marketing a baby food cereal in India and many other developing countries with higher sugar content than the version it marketed in Europe. Around the same time, reports of regulatory agenciesin Hong Kong and Singapore banning masalas marketed by two Indian manufacturers aroused alarm