Sugaronline India Report – India’s growing health consciousness worries food and beverage companies By Prerna Sharma
20th April 2017
Economist Ritesh Kumar Singh’s exclusive report looks at the latest activity in the Indian and South Asian sugar & ethanol industries.
<p> </p><p>Alarmed by the rising incidence of <a style="color: #ce0000; text-decoration: underline" href="http://health.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/diagnostics/in-10-years-the-number-of-obese-has-doubled/57421640" target="_blank">lifestyle diseases such as diabetes, obesity and hypertension</a>, New Delhi is contemplating tougher labelling norms and punitive taxation for India’s US$57 billion food and beverage industry that is already troubled by the slowing sales and profit numbers.</p><p>India’s food regulator Food Safety and Standards
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