Artificial Ripening Standards
Friends for last 2 years some of us have been raising this issue of artificial ripening of fruits with fssai but they dont seem to act at all. Its the same old approach.
Now we are going into mango season. Many vendors use carbide and chinese ethylene to ripen mangoes and this has long term consequences.
My humble submission to BIS is can they issues standards for artificial ripening that are safe and if nothing is safe ban all artificial ripening. more
Now we are going into mango season. Many vendors use carbide and chinese ethylene to ripen mangoes and this has long term consequences.
My humble submission to BIS is can they issues standards for artificial ripening that are safe and if nothing is safe ban all artificial ripening. more
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The Political Rule in States being fully backed and supported by Business Houses and Agencies, setting aside even H.C. and S.C. directive Orders. This is the system of Rights of States overriding the Healthcare, Union, and Judiciary. Many State Officials even are under Contempt of Court Cases still pending and running. more
Mar 30
It is a fact that the fruit vendors are selling unripened fruits as ripened and cheating the public. More than that it has no health implications.The chemistry behind this is very simple. Calcium carbide is manufactured by heating lime stone and carbon.Limestone is not a poison and so is carbon. The product calcium carbide is also not a poison. It simply reacts with water very quickly with effervescence to give out acetylene and lime . Acetylene gas ripens the fruits. Now where is the poison ? When fruits ripen it gives out ethylene(C2H4) gas. Later on scientists found out that ethylene helps fruits to get ripened. So people started using ethylene for the ripening of fruits. In the absence of ethylene the next alternative acetylene(C2H2) is being used as the ripening agent It is well known that the multinationals want fruits at a cheaper rate and in order to distract the poor public from eating fruits the multinationals are spreading the news as was the case of coconut oil . Coconut oil does not contain cholesterol as no plants can produce cholesterol. Coconut oil mainly contains glycerol esters of lauric acid , a constituent of human breast milk which is a very essential item So if you want to support the multinationals you may please spread this wrong information to fool the public. Otherwise simply eat the fruits after washing thoroughly with water as usual .On washing CaC2 will become Ca(OH)2,chuna more
Mar 30
It is for the first time, I believe, that anyone has given such detailed information on the much abused calcium ripening of fruits. Thank you DR PV Padmanabhan Nair. Hopefully, the matter is solved. Yet, I expect FSSAI and other standards organisation will vouch this findings and close the chapter. more
Mar 30
We have been pointing out the various issues but looks like bis/fssai are still to wake up. We need a much stronger reprsentation from the govt to look into the issues beingraised in local circles otherwise it will remain only for namesake and slowly when no actions are taken people will stop contributing more
Mar 28
It is not only the high population, it is also the severe competition in grabbing whatever is available in the market whether one needs it or not. We do not measure the amount of wastage there is from our storages in Cold Storages, Refrigerations, and domestic fridges. more
Mar 28
Thank you Mathur Saheb. It is all Bhagavan ki kripa that you could understand the matter so fast and act immediately to save poor people more
Mar 30
The pleasure is, there has been a good participation in meaningful discussion. And, that is the spirit we should participate in all the LCs segments. I would like to suggest that there should be link that may provide the contact details of all the participants in case there is ever a round-table type of meetings or seminars on any of the goods and services and production & marketing and consumption. Such meetings/seminars may be done under the over all facilitation by the Department of Consumer Affairs in the Consumer Protection Council. more
Mar 28
