by Team Spectrum Books | Jul 3, 2020 | Health and Medicine
The Food Safety and Standard Authority of India (FSSAI) has proposed colour-coded labelling for identifying unhealthy food. the draft notification stating this was released on June 27, 2019. It mandated packaged food companies to declare the quantity of salt, added...
by Team Spectrum Books | Jul 3, 2020 | Health and Medicine
On October 4, 2019, the Union health minister Harsh Vardhan formally launched the ‘Trans-Fat Free’ logo during the 8th International Chefs Conference in New Delhi. Food establishments that use trans-fat free fats/oil and do not have industrial trans fats more than 0.2...
by Team Spectrum Books | Jun 30, 2020 | Health and Medicine
Masks are helpful to protect oneself and even more to protect others. Importantly, masks can offer some protection to healthy wearers; they can protect healthy people from sick wearers who seem to look healthy. People believe that they are contagious only if you have...
by Team Spectrum Books | Jun 30, 2020 | Health and Medicine
Emergence The coronavirus first emerged in late-December 2019 in Wuhan, China. As it began spreading into nearby regions, the government of China locked down the city, quarantining about 11 million people in Wuhan. Over the days, it went on to include almost 60...
by Pradeep Gautam | Jun 30, 2020 | Health and Medicine
Initiatives such as Khudol signify that Manipur has been more accommodative to the transgender community than any other state amid the COVID-19 lockdown. The United Nations Secretary General’s Envoy on Youth has mentioned Manipur’s ‘Khudol’ initiative in the top 10...
by Pradeep Gautam | Jun 30, 2020 | Health and Medicine
The health register, first-of-its-kind, will be a robust and standardized health repository of all the citizens of the state. The Karnataka state government has almost completed a door-to-door survey of all households through a team of primary health centre workers,...
