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What are the building blocks of food development?
1.       Do your products deliver within specific nutrition, health, shelf life or cost parameters?
2.       Is the product satisfying consumer needs and wants?
3.       Are you struggling to ideate or identify the product & viability?
4.       Is your food business idea or concept not up to the market standard?
 We have solutions for these.
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·  Food Research Lab brings together the latest advances in food processing equipment, expert food scientists, chefs, nutritionists and partners from across the globe to help food, beverage & nutraceutical companies and entrepreneurs get their products to market quickly and effectively
· The Food Research Lab is one of the leading experts in food, beverage & nutraceutical product development. Our team consists of expert food product consultants and food technologists based in Kolkata. 
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djtikkamasala · 7 years
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Washington DC is also a city on river. The town I grew up in, Princeton, is a colonial town that’s a stopping point between New York and Philadelphia. I imagine that if you had to go from New York to DC in a horse drawn carriage, you would take a day to get to Princeton, and then a day to get to Philadelphia, and then DC the following morning. A 2-3 day journey.
Henrietta Hudson, the dyke bar I work for, took two bus-loads of lesbians from New York to DC for the Women’s March. It was a 5 hour journey each way, and every seat on two long buses was taken, by women willing to travel 10 hours in one day to add their bodies to the mass of hundreds of thousands and to return home safe and in good company.
The first time I visited DC, was in my early 20’s. My girlfriend and I were doing a weekend adventure in the nations capital, during cherry blossom season. We stayed at a youth hostel, in bunks, and took a day to see the Smithsonian, the Art museums, and senators jogging in tiny shorts in the main plaza of the city.
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The second time visiting DC, at age 29, I’d been summoned by the White House to DJ their annual Diwali party. I took a train with my uncle, little brother, production collaborator, and my partner at the time. The ceremony opened with Vice President Joe Biden participating in a purification ceremony with a group of priests, surrounded by the Sikh, Hindu, and Jain community cultural contributors and political representatives. I was there to DJ the afterparty for a room full of important people who love classic Bollywood, one of my favorite specialties.
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The third time, at 35, I’d arrived in the capital to move in  resistance to the inauguration of Donald Trump to the highest office in America. 2016’s presidential election traumatized the nation as we watched every single marginalized community in this country get slandered, offended, threatened, and trod on by this ugly man’s ugly campaign. The whole ordeal left the majority of this country feeling sick to their core, and helpless, and in DC I was surrounded by them, none of us alone in our rage.
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I was born in Kolkata, India. My family moved here in 1984. My dad left first when I was 2, then at age 3 my mother and I got on a plane from tropical heat and landed in 3 feet of snow at JFK international airport in Queens. I ran away 3 times on the flight, kicking and screaming about missing my grandmother, who had been raising me while my mom was working, and in grad school.
When we landed, the first thing that happened to her was that the woolen winter coat she had brought along got stolen from her in the airport. This woman from a foreign land, with a feral child, and a strange and violent new reality ahead of her, she must have been terrified of this country from the very beginning.
It made perfect sense for her to choose to work a government job in finance, to be on the stable side of power in America. She re-educated herself here to do that work, but in India she had been a high school english teacher, and as a result my handwriting looks like I went to a Catholic School in Kolkata.
Books were considered to be sacred and holy objects in the Hindu Brahmin house i was raised in. My father became an expert in shelf building in the course of my growing up - they had an ever expanding collection. He obsessively picked them up from garage sales, which were an American miracle to him.
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He also re-educated himself on arrival. In India he had been an entrepreneur, having tried to run a coal factory, a chicken farm, and also training to be a pilot. He had gotten into many motorcycle accidents before my birth. The last and final was when he and my pregnant mother were riding through Kolkata and the bike tipped and fell. Everyone was ok, but his motorcycling days were over after that, and after moving to the states he would re-educate himself to be an electrical engineer.
Their insistence on me having a great education, and our family having more potential is what motivated them to make great sacrifices to transition to America. So when I came out to them as a teenager it forced a direct confrontation between where we were all coming from and where we were all heading.
Being gay was not a valid identity in the culture they arrived from. When my mother really absorbed my identity, after walking in on my first kiss with a gay woman, Reagan era propaganda made her fear I would get AIDS and life a short and lonely life. We struggled for months to repair the rift, but I couldn’t compartmentalize my life enough to shield myself from her disappointment, and then I went off to college.
My 2nd year into college, after having grown up an only child, my Mom informed me that she was pregnant, at 47, and after not having spoken to me through my early college years. She wanted my opinion about whether she should keep the child. I asked her about the risks, there were many, and let her know I supported her decision either way. I also reminded her that when I was 5 I lied for a year to my friends about having a little brother, because I really wanted one as a kid. She decided to go forward with it. The distance between us temporarily shrank in the course of her pregnancy, and my brother was born a month after September 11th, 2001. George Bush was president. My whole family was terrified. That was the last year we saw a lot of each other.
When the Obama Administration took the stage, everything changed. After the political climate that followed 9-11, having a black president with a foreign sounding name was a welcome relief, even just on a symbolic level I know we all felt safer. When they asked me to DJ there, I invited my little brother to “perform” with me, and my Mom had to swallow her pride and agree to it. It was an extraordinary compromise, for extraordinary circumstances.
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My little brother is a teenager now, he’s always been sensitive, articulate and thoughtful. His instagram feed showed me a photo he took of his friends protesting Trump during their school recess. He wrote a tender message to them there, expressing gratitude for their standing up and speaking out about things that matter to him, personally.
When the gay nightclub in Orlando had a mass shooting, he posted a photograph of his hand with all the hashtags #Pulse #Pride #Orlando scrawled across of the back of his hand in black ink.
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When marriage equality happened, he changed his facebook profile to the rainbow overlay, in support of the movement.
Our immigrant family story is strange and beautiful and also painful sometimes. For real though. This country is built of immigrant stories and the resilience that it requires to sacrifice and rebuild in the face of constant change. 
The changes that are coming are going to test all of us, but many of us are used to being tested this way as a matter of survival. Adaptation is the norm in American culture, and that is a fact. I plan to stand up for the freedoms that my family made sacrifices for, and it’s overwhelming and inspirational to see how many are also standing up at this moment in time and choosing resilience over fear.
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dykebarchronicles · 7 years
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Washington DC is also a city on river. The town I grew up in, Princeton, is a colonial town that’s a stopping point between New York and Philadelphia. I imagine that if you had to go from New York to DC in a horse drawn carriage, you would take a day to get to Princeton, and then a day to get to Philadelphia, and then DC the following morning. A 2-3 day journey.
Henrietta Hudson, the dyke bar I work for, took two bus-loads of lesbians from New York to DC for the Women’s March. It was a 5 hour journey each way, and every seat on two long buses was taken, by women willing to travel 10 hours in one day to add their bodies to the mass of hundreds of thousands and to return home safe and in good company.
The first time I visited DC, was in my early 20’s. My girlfriend and I were doing a weekend adventure in the nations capital, during cherry blossom season. We stayed at a youth hostel, in bunks, and took a day to see the Smithsonian, the Art museums, and senators jogging in tiny shorts in the main plaza of the city.
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The second time visiting DC, at age 29, I’d been summoned by the White House to DJ their annual Diwali party. I took a train with my uncle, little brother, production collaborator, and my partner at the time. The ceremony opened with Vice President Joe Biden participating in a purification ceremony with a group of priests, surrounded by the Sikh, Hindu, and Jain community cultural contributors and political representatives. I was there to DJ the afterparty for a room full of important people who love classic Bollywood, one of my favorite specialties.
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The third time, at 35, I’d arrived in the capital to move in  resistance to the inauguration of Donald Trump to the highest office in America. 2016’s presidential election traumatized the nation as we watched every single marginalized community in this country get slandered, offended, threatened, and trod on by this ugly man’s ugly campaign. The whole ordeal left the majority of this country feeling sick to their core, and helpless, and in DC I was surrounded by them, none of us alone in our rage.
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I was born in Kolkata, India. My family moved here in 1984. My dad left first when I was 2, then at age 3 my mother and I got on a plane from tropical heat and landed in 3 feet of snow at JFK international airport in Queens. I ran away 3 times on the flight, kicking and screaming about missing my grandmother, who had been raising me while my mom was working, and in grad school.
When we landed, the first thing that happened to her was that the woolen winter coat she had brought along got stolen from her in the airport. This woman from a foreign land, with a feral child, and a strange and violent new reality ahead of her, she must have been terrified of this country from the very beginning.
It made perfect sense for her to choose to work a government job in finance, to be on the stable side of power in America. She re-educated herself here to do that work, but in India she had been a high school english teacher, and as a result my handwriting looks like I went to a Catholic School in Kolkata.
Books were considered to be sacred and holy objects in the Hindu Brahmin house i was raised in. My father became an expert in shelf building in the course of my growing up - they had an ever expanding collection. He obsessively picked them up from garage sales, which were an American miracle to him.
He also re-educated himself on arrival. In India he had been an entrepreneur, having tried to run a coal factory, a chicken farm, and also training to be a pilot. He had gotten into many motorcycle accidents before my birth. The last and final was when he and my pregnant mother were riding through Kolkata and the bike tipped and fell. Everyone was ok, but his motorcycling days were over after that, and after moving to the states he would re-educate himself to be an electrical engineer.
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Their insistence on me having a great education, and our family having more potential is what motivated them to make great sacrifices to transition to America. So when I came out to them as a teenager it forced a direct confrontation between where we were all coming from and where we were all heading.
Being gay was not a valid identity in the culture they arrived from. When my mother really absorbed my identity, after walking in on my first kiss with a gay woman, Reagan era propaganda made her fear I would get AIDS and life a short and lonely life. We struggled for months to repair the rift, but I couldn’t compartmentalize my life enough to shield myself from her disappointment, and then I went off to college.
My 2nd year into college, after having grown up an only child, my Mom informed me that she was pregnant, at 47, and after not having spoken to me through my early college years. She wanted my opinion about whether she should keep the child. I asked her about the risks, there were many, and let her know I supported her decision either way. I also reminded her that when I was 5 I lied for a year to my friends about having a little brother, because I really wanted one as a kid. She decided to go forward with it. The distance between us temporarily shrank in the course of her pregnancy, and my brother was born a month after September 11th, 2001. George Bush was president. My whole family was terrified. That was the last year we saw a lot of each other.
When the Obama Administration took the stage, everything changed. After the political climate that followed 9-11, having a black president with a foreign sounding name was a welcome relief, even just on a symbolic level I know we all felt safer. When they asked me to DJ there, I invited my little brother to “perform” with me, and my Mom had to swallow her pride and agree to it. It was an extraordinary compromise, for extraordinary circumstances.
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My little brother is a teenager now, he’s always been sensitive, articulate and thoughtful. His instagram feed showed me a photo he took of his friends protesting Trump during their school recess. He wrote a tender message to them there, expressing gratitude for their standing up and speaking out about things that matter to him, personally.
When the gay nightclub in Orlando had a mass shooting, he posted a photograph of his hand with all the hashtags #Pulse #Pride #Orlando scrawled across of the back of his hand in black ink.
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When marriage equality happened, he changed his facebook profile to the rainbow overlay, in support of the movement.
Our immigrant family story is strange and beautiful and also painful sometimes. For real though. This country is built of immigrant stories and the resilience that it requires to sacrifice and rebuild in the face of constant change. 
The changes that are coming are going to test all of us, but many of us are used to being tested this way as a matter of survival. Adaptation is the norm in American culture, and that is a fact. I plan to stand up for the freedoms that my family made sacrifices for, and it’s overwhelming and inspirational to see how many are also standing up at this moment in time and choosing resilience over fear.
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ladystylestores · 4 years
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For A Billion Indians, The Government’s Voluntary Contact Tracing App Might Actually Be Mandatory
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A police officer distributes groceries to people as they stand inside marked circles maintaining social distancing in Faridabad, India.
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One afternoon in the last week of April, a pair of uniformed security guards stopped photographer Altaf Qadri from entering the pharmacy inside a large residential complex in Noida, a city near the Indian capital of New Delhi, unless he first showed them his phone. They wanted to see if he had installed the Indian government’s coronavirus contact tracing app.
There to buy medicine for his father, Qadri protested. But then he saw other people trying to get into the pharmacy. They were downloading the app.
“That’s when I realized this shit is real,” he said. “They really meant it.”
In early April, India’s government released its contact tracing app, called Aarogya Setu — “a bridge to health” in Hindi. Using a combination of self-declared personal information like travel history and symptoms, as well as Bluetooth and location data, the app hands out green, yellow, and orange badges to people showing their infection risk. Urging people to download it, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi called it an “important step in our fight against COVID-19.” Millions of Indians have obeyed. Three weeks after it launched, India’s IT ministry said more than 75 million people in the country had installed the app on their smartphones.
But the app has kicked off a debate in the country of 1.3 billion people that does not have a federal privacy law. Indian privacy advocates are concerned about the app’s potential as a tool for state surveillance beyond the pandemic — among other things, it requires access to people’s location at all times. And as India’s government continues to work on the app — state-issued e-passes to let people move around the country are coming soon, as is telemedicine — critics are asking if millions of Indians will be forced to download a government-backed tracking app as the cost of returning to their lives.
“Is Aarogya Setu going to be an app with a limited shelf life that is only going to be used for contact tracing? Or is it going to be the beginning of something bigger?” said Nikhil Pahwa, editor of Medianama, an Indian website that covers tech news and policy. “Now that millions of people have downloaded it, I don’t expect India’s government to give up on this install base. They’re not going to let go of it. We’re going to need to show the app to access public transport, enter government buildings, supermarkets, and pharmacies. This is an opportunity that they’ve been waiting for.”
Indians aren’t legally required to install Aarogya Setu, but they may not have a choice. On Wednesday, the country’s government mandated all federal employees to download it. A report in Indian business daily Mint published Wednesday cited sources in the smartphone industry saying that India’s government asked smartphone makers to preinstall the app on devices. Indians may also soon need to have the app installed to board public transport and take flights.
When the pandemic passes, in other words, Aarogya Setu could become a permanent part of Indians’ lives, like their driver’s licenses and passports. What is built in a crisis will not disappear when it passes.
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An Indian health official sprays disinfectant on his colleague inside a COVID-19 mobile testing van.
Last week, Indian food delivery companies like Zomato and Swiggy, as well as maintenance services startup Urban Company, said they would require gig workers on their platforms to have Aarogya Setu installed on their phones to work.
“We have made sure that they can only login to their Zomato Delivery Partner app if their phone has the Aarogya Setu app installed, and is running as a background process on their phone,” tweeted Zomato CEO Deepinder Goyal on April 21.
Some of the company’s employees found the mandate unsettling.
“These people are being forced to make a choice between putting food on the table and installing an app that might violate their privacy.”
“Nobody from Zomato told us why we need to have this app installed to work,” Jeetu Singh, a delivery worker with Zomato in New Delhi, told BuzzFeed News. “All I know is that one day I couldn’t log in to my app to start taking orders until I had installed Aarogya Setu and signed up with my personal information.” Singh said he had never heard the term “contact tracing” before. “Most delivery guys like me who work for these platforms can’t really read or write much,” he said. “They don’t understand most of this.”
“Gig workers only get paid when they work,” said Pahwa, the Medianama editor and one of the leading authorities on privacy in India. “It’s an unfortunate situation where these people are being forced to make a choice between putting food on the table and installing an app that might violate their privacy.”
Other Zomato delivery workers who did not wish to be named told BuzzFeed News they weren’t concerned about their privacy when using the app and in any case did not have a choice if they wanted to work. “I don’t really think that much about the app,” one of them said.
Zomato’s customers are not required to have the app installed to have orders delivered.
A Zomato spokesperson told BuzzFeed News the company hasn’t considered mandating customers to install the contract tracing app before they could use the food delivery service.
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Migrant laborers in Kolkata wait near their bags placed inside circles marked along a road to maintain social distancing.
Earlier this month, Rashmi Sharma, a writer who owns one of the 800 apartments in a sprawling residential complex in a wealthy neighborhood in Ghaziabad, a city near New Delhi, found herself in an argument with the management in the complex’s Facebook group. It had mandated every resident to download the app to access grocery and maintenance services.
“I said this was unconstitutional and that the government had not made this app mandatory,” Sharma told BuzzFeed News. “They told me they were simply doing what the prime minister asked citizens to do. ‘You go and question the prime minister,’ they told me.”
The complex’s management revoked the requirement, but Sharma’s neighbors now taunt her for standing against the government. “It’s frustrating,” she said, “because the app only checks the potentiality of your risk. It can’t say whether you definitely have or do not have the virus. Only a test can determine that.”
Privacy advocates echoed Sharma’s concerns, noting that apps like Aarogya Setu are unproven and likely to be far less effective than manual contact tracing efforts.
“My problem with contact tracing apps is that they have absolutely no value,” Bruce Schneier, a privacy expert and fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, told BuzzFeed News earlier this week. “I’m not even talking about the privacy concerns, I mean the efficacy. Does anybody think this will do something useful? […] This is just something governments want to do for the hell of it. To me, it’s just techies doing techie things because they don’t know what else to do.”
Experts said the app was similar to Aadhaar, India’s controversial biometric ID program. Aadhaar, which was voluntary when it was first rolled out in 2009, soon became mandatory for everything from buying a new cellphone connection to filing taxes, even though nobody was legally required to sign up for the program. Today, nearly every single one of India’s 1.3 billion residents has an Aadhaar ID.
“We’ve seen these things eventually becoming ‘voluntary-mandatory,’” said Medianama editor Pahwa. “What if you need Aarogya Setu for getting rations?” he said, referring to the subsidized food grains that millions of the poorest Indians depend upon. “What if you don’t have a smartphone?”
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Food Safety and Standards in India
Given the high levels of food adulteration, food products testing has become mandatory for food processors and manufacturers of packaged food products. If you’re one of millions of Indian consumers breathing a sigh of relief at the resultant decrease in adulteration, you have the FSSAI to thank. The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) is an autonomous body governed by the Union Government of India’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. It was established under the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006, and has been responsible for taking various steps for promoting public health, one of which is food and beverage testing.
 Indian consumers have long since been the victims of rampant food adulteration and contamination, be it in the form of diluted milk and milk products, or small pebbles being added to whole grains, cereals and pulses. While suppliers stand to gain from these practices as they can make more profits from the same amount of product, consumers can be impacted significantly, and monetary losses are the least of the concerns. Consuming adulterated and contaminated food items can have severe medical consequences, and has even been known to cause fatalities. And this is where the FSSAI comes in.
 It has the authority to frame regulations for food safety standards, provide accreditation to laboratories for food testing, advise and lend technical support to the Union Government of India, and contribute to the development of global standards in the food sector. It is also responsible for conducting primary research to gain information about aspects such as food consumption and contamination.
 Headquartered in New Delhi, the FSSAI also has 6 regional offices in different parts of the country, namely Delhi, Cochin, Mumbai, Chennai, Guwahati and Kolkata. In addition to this, there is a wide network of almost 200 laboratories across India that have been accredited by the FSSAI to conduct testing of food products to fight the war against adulteration. Food products testing has proven to be an effective means of holding food processors and manufacturers responsible for the quality, authenticity and purity of their food products. The FSSAI mark has established itself as a mark of safety and purity, and is a sign of assurance to the customer that the food product in question has been deemed safe for consumption by experts.
 The FSSAI has made itself easily accessible to consumers by allowing individuals to get in touch with them through a toll-free number and an online platform called ‘Food Safety Voice’ in addition to other forums. Consumers can register their complaints and feedback related to any incidents of adulterated food, substandard food, contaminated food, unsafe or unhygienic food, or even labelling defects or misleading claims made in advertisements for food and beverage products.
 There are many established and reputed analytical labs across India that offer food and beverage testing services. They use state-of-the-art equipment and world-class technology and processes to conduct a variety of tests on food and beverage products. Food is tested for its nutritional content, shelf life, heavy metal content, pesticide and antibiotic residue content, as well as presence of a variety of adulterants and contaminants, both naturally occurring and manmade ones. Water sample testing is also provided at these labs to ensure that the water you’re using for your daily activities is safe for consumption. In addition to food processors and manufacturers, institutes like schools, housing societies, recreational clubs and hospitals also use the services of these labs to test the quality and purity of their water supply.
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All food testing services in and around Kolkata. NABL-accredited and well-equipped lab for food microbial testing, nutritional labeling, and shelf life testing.
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