Canned food selling like hotcakes (rep 07/05/2012)

Food for thought: By banning the sale of all forms of junk food from school premises we can promote a healthy diet among students, by Santosh Chhetri (kp 06/05/2012)

Mobile lab to test food adulteration (ht 19/04/2012), Lack of resources hits food quality inspection (rep 20/04/2012)

Malnutrition dogs urban children also, by Om Astha Rai (rep 01/04/2012)

Cases of food adulteration down in the valley: Sweets,milk and water continue posing health hazards for consumers (ht 26/03/2012)

NBWIA to keep tabs on bottled water sellers (kp 15/03/2012)

Malnutrition in Kathmandu: Children of city poor miss out on nutrition aid, by Om Astha Rai (rep 14/03/2012)

Food inspectors at two City hotels: Urge them to improve condition at kitchens (kp 06/03/2012)

KUKL water contaminated: NAST, by Arjun Poudel (rep 03/03/2012)

Demands for organic foods growing, by Kriti Bhuju (rep 04/01/2011)

Govt okays consumer court, guilty to face up to 14 yrs jail, by Bimal Gautam (rep 21/12/2011)

Creation of food safety authority urged (kp 17/12/2011)

Poor quality food still in market (ht 29/11/2011)

Meat market to be strictly regulated (rep 09/11/2011)

Internationally accredited food testing lab soon (kp 26/10/2011), Food lab ready to get international stamp (ht 27/10/2011)

Department of food quality cautions consumers: Its advice — avoid sweets as they are unhygienic with chemical colours and micro-organisms (ht 24/10/2011)

Unhygienic conditions in factory: Himalayan Sanx asked to halt production (rep 21/10/2011)

Sitapaila drinking water sealed (rep 13/10/2011)

Substandard food items flood Pokhara markets, by Manoj Adhikari (rep 11/10/2011)

Thanks to selective market inspection, sweets traders had a bitter Dashain (rep 11/10/2011)

Ban businesses supplying tainted foods: PM's office, by Bimal Gautam (rep 30/09/2011)

The Saga Of Rotten Food And Public Health, by Prem Khatri (rn 27/09/2011)

Government vows to punish every offender (kp 26/09/2011)

Inspection of hotels along highway provides food for thought: Monitoring team finds them selling inedible, stale items; Warns to stop unscrupulous business, by Keshav Adhikari (ht 23/09/2011), Highway hotels serving contaminated food (nn 23/09/2011)

Bir Hospital canteen in poor condition, by Ashok Thapa (rep 21/09/2011), DoC finds hospital kitchen revoltingly sick: But lets off canteen operator; Chief vows to do the needful (ht 21/09/2011)

Chicken skin in mo:mo; Earthworm, flies in jar water, by Meena Bhatta (rep 19/09/2011)

Magnificent Resilience, by Narayan Upadhyay (rn 18/09/2011)

Hospitals skimp on hygiene, by Meena Bhatta (rep 16/09/2011), Hospital cafeteria selling rotten stuff (ht 16/09/2011)

KMC to set up 13 abattoirs in Valley (kp 15/09/2011)

Two dairies in Bhaktapur sealed (kp 15/09/2011), Market monitoring on in Valley: Dairies, drug stores, beverage plants found playing with public health (ht 15/09/2011)

Substandard food: 80 percent samples failed tests (kp 13/09/2011), ‘Gudpak, Ghee contaminated’ (kp 13/09/2011), Test finds poison in Gudpak: DFTQC shutdown Puspa diary, seizes substandard milk (ht 13/09/2011), Three Ktm firms selling substandard food, beverages sealed (rep 14/09/2011), Safeguard consumer rights (rep 14/09/2011), Unhygienic meat: Govt mulls ‘bird markets’ in City (kp 14/09/2011), Govt declares war against tainted food: Two factories sealed in the Capital, one in Biratnagar; numerous substandard food items destroyed across the country (kp 14/09/2011), Inspection exposes more sweet shops, by Meena Bhatta (rep 16/09/2011)

Market monitoring in a shambles (rep 12/09/2011)

Ready-to-eat food products grabbing more attention, by Rashmi Mahat (rep 12/09/2011)

Consumers worry about hygiene in abattoirs, by Roshan Sedhai (kp 11/09/2011)

Obesity blues: As urban dwellers settle into unhealthy new lifestyles, food habit and product quality control deserve priority, by Bhawana Upadhyay (kp 11/09/2011)

Food for thought, by Trailokya Raj Aryal (rep 10/09/20119

DoC destroys expired, substandard food products, by Meena Bhatta (rep 08/09/2011), Crackdown on substandard food manufacturers begins, by Ramesh Shrestha and Nirjana Sharma (kp 08/07/2011)

Two famous New Road Gudpak shops closed down for selling adulterated sweets (nn 06/09/2011), DAO instructs police to arrest Anamol proprietor (rep 07/09/2011), Consumer forum files cases against four sweet traders, by Nirjana Sharma (kp 07/09/2011), Valley sweet shops have sour experience: DoC begins operation to check food adulteration in run-up to festive season (ht 07/09/2011)

DFTQC to step up food inspection, by Meena Bhatta (rep 04/09/2011)

Monkey nuts vs home food, by Ashok Bhurtyal and Aruna Uprety (rep 28/08/2011)

Rate of food adulteration high, by Meena Bhatta (rep 27/08/2011)

On spot food quality test from next month (ht 27/08/2011)

Two mineral water companies ordered to stop operations (kp 18/08/2011)

Parliamentary team conducts market inspection (rep 02/08/2011)

Quality control dept hoodwinking people, warn activists: Regulatory agency denies reports of formalin in fish, by Nirjana Sharma (kp 16/07/2011)

Sale of unhealthy chicken rife in Dhangadi, by Dil Bahadur Chhatyal (rep 10/07/2011)

More nutritional centres in the offing (ht 18/06/2011)

Pokhara folks eating untested meat, by Santosh Pokharel (rep 15/06/2011)

Govt committees all set to fight malnutrition (ht 29/05/2011)

Advanced abattoirs in the offing, by Arjun Poudel (rep 10/05/2011)

Pesticide residue found in food across the country, by Arjun Poudel (rep 23/04/2011)

Forgotten foods: Malnutrition can be combated by revisiting traditional, nutritious foods, by Aruna Uprety (kp 08/04/2011)

Over 50pc bottled water contaminated, by Arjun Poudel (rep 03/04/2011)

From salt to cereal, by Dillee Prasad Paudel (kp 02/03/2011)

Meat shops receive modern equipment 13 slaughterhouses to be built in metropolis, 51 million rupees allocated for the purpose (ht 13/02/2011)

Momolicious Metro (rep 11/02/2011)

Valley’s ground water ‘very unsafe to drink’, by Nirjana Sharma (kp 26/01/2011)

Fortified flour distribution starts in Karnali (ht 16/01/2011)

Plans to regulate food quality soon (kp 05/01/2011)

‘Nutritious diet’ sickens kids, by Jagadish Rokaya (ht 05/01/2011)

Manpower crunch a bone in food department gullet, by Ishwar Rauniyar (kp 04/01/2011)

Nutrition programme revamp on the cards (ht 31/12/2010)

Law blind to infant food quality (kp 19/12/2010)

Adulteration of sweetmeats: Unscrupulous practice rampant in Sunsari, by Somnath Bastola (ht 10/11/2010)

Food adulteration wagon trundles on unchecked in Kathmandu Valley, by Pramod Koirala (kp 04/10/2010)

Muddy waters: Only greater vigilance can check food adulteration (kp 01/10/2010)

Tainted water in market; 50 pc of mineral water is bad: Data, by Ishwar Rauniyar (kp 28/09/2010)

Food quality fell in 2009-10: Adulteration still a challenge in packaged water,milk and oil (ht 20/09/2010)

Food & nutritional security, by Bishwambher Pyakuryal (rep 25/08/2010)

Three errant factories under scanner (kp 12/08/2010)

Contaminated water taking toll on Dharan folks (ht 28/07/2010)

Nepal malnutrition rate highest in world (ht 25/07/2010)

Adulteration in ghee, oil, milk: High profit margin remains the key factor (ht 30/06/2010)

Fortified flour to fight malnutrition, by Laxmi Maharjan (ht 27/06/2010)

Food adulteration grows alarming (ht 07/06/2010)

People still unaware of iodised salt in remote areas of Sunsari (rn 04/06/2010)

Yummy and green but mean (kp 25/05/2010)

KMC initiative to boost meat shop quality (ht 25/05/2010)

Mineral water quality ‘getting better’ (kp 19/05/2010)

Menu sees more adulterated food, by Ishwar Rauniyar (kp 16/04/2010)

A matter of life and diet: One in every two children in Nepal is undernourished and stunted growth is pervasive, by Bhawana Upadhyay (kp 15/04/2010)

People compelled to consume unhygineic meat, by Rambabu Yadav (ht 02/04/2010)

KMC move to maintain meat quality (ht 19/03/2010)

Stunting among children sound alarm for govt (ht 05/03/2010), Malnutrition taking toll on kids (kp 06/03/2010), Stunted progress: Programmes aimed at reducing malnutrition are clearly not working (kp 07/03/2010), Poor nutrition a threat to development (rn 07/03/2010), Malnutrition: Thought For Food (sp 19/03/2010)

Tribute to our love for momo, by Shreemita Maharjan (ht 28/02/2010)

Govt to regulate slaughterhouses, by Laxmi Maharjan (ht 19/02/2010)

Last in line: The pro-male bias in the distribution of food at mealtime in rural homes still continues, by Bhawana Upadhyay (kp 16/02/2010)

Department of Food Technology and Quality Control (DFTQC)