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 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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