PIPAL: People’s Initiative for Participatory Action for food Labelling

Lenin Raghuvanshi, founder and CEO of, People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights has launched a campaign called PIPAL (People’s Initiative for Participatory Action on food Labelling) to make consumers more aware of the dangers of packaged foods. “We aim to make every consumer aware of what does their packet have and then they decide if it’s good for them. For the profit of companies, the consumer should not risk their lives,” Raghuvanshi said. https://www.news9live.com/health/fssai-to-introduce-front-of-pack-labelling-to-reduce-burden-of-non-communicable-diseases-129309?infinitescroll=1

  THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MUST BRING LEGAL INITIATIVE TO PROTECT CHILDREN’S RIGHTS THROUGH RIGHTS-BASED FOOD LABELING WHICH SHALL BE MANDATORY FOR THE BEST OF NEXT-GENERATION.     The Peoples’ Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR), Foundation for Sustainable Development (FSD-INDIA) and Savitri Bai Phule Mahila Panchayat alongwith CACL, ATBDA Manch together are organizing this most important “multiple stakeholders’ consultation on children’s nutrition rights through package food labelling” at Varanai on October 5, 2021.   Good nutrition paves the way for a pleasant and beautiful life. Objective of the nutritional care includes not-only the ingredients but also the labelling, designing, marketing, quality and fair-minded packaging. Leading doctors and health experts have demanded stringent changes in packaged food labelling of unhealthy foods.   Leading healthcare professionals have demanded to incorporate warning labels on the front of the pack to...

 https://english.junputh.com/open-space/strong-fopl-policy-needed-for-tackling-malnutrition-in-times-of-covid/ Need for a strong FoPL regime as a policy tool to address malnutrition in post-COVID society September 26, 2021  -  by  Dr. Lenin Raghuvanshi  -  Leave a Comment Spread the love During my treatment due to COVID-19 infection in second pandemic wave, I got more conscious about the health and especially focused on nutrition (High Protein rich diet) for boosting immunity. The nutrition has helped the COVID patient for faster recovery than the normal patient getting small amount of nutritious food. During that time of pandemic people spent most of their earning on food both in rural and urban India.  Secondly people think that packed food are more hygienic and healthier than the loose one. It increased the consumption of the packed food in India. The regular and excess consumption of foods high in fat, sugar and salt leads to obesity and is a risk ...