As of 31 December 2021, 84 countries – comprising 43% of all countries – have legally binding controls to limit the production, import and sale of lead paints. In the majority of countries worldwide, using lead paint in homes and schools is not prohibited, creating a significant risk of children’s …
Bisphenol A, a widely used chemical that Canada is banning from baby bottles, is present in the bodies of 91 percent of Canadians, according to a report that shows just how prevalent the controversial chemical is in daily life.
Satish Shile Bangalore, July 21, DHNS The Jawahar Bal Bhavan in Cubbon Park is all set to get the status of first lead-free Bal Bhavan in the country. eco-friendly: Nearly 60 per cent of play equipment in Bal Bhavan have been coated with lead-free paint.As much as 60 per cent …
Lab To Check Food Adulteration Will Come Up At Navrangpura Within 3 Months Kumar Manish | TNN Ahmedabad: Lead in your chocolate, ammonia in your milk and arsenic in fruits
This new study confirms that children in Faridkot area have for long been exposed to a large number of heavy metals, including lead, barium, cadmium, manganese and uranium. It has the study has been conducted by Baba Farid Center for Special Children. <br> Our test results documented that hair and …
Bindu Shajan Perappadan NEW DELHI: Toxic lead was found in 54 samples of children's jewellery collected from different markets of the Capital including Old Delhi, Janpath, Lajpat Nagarand Sadar Bazar. According to a new report titled
A slender bangle with dangling silver balls, a piece of jewellery with dolphins on it, a tiny turquoise ring: all pretty, and tainted with lead. Pink may be pretty, and rings may be cool, but a new study by NGO Toxics Link has found high levels of lead present in …
New Delhi: The pretty earrings you pick up from the roadside stall or the innocuous charm bracelet sold at Janpath might actually be very dangerous. A Toxics Link report on artificial jewellery, specially for children, reported that all the samples tested by the NGO were found to contain very high …
An earring or bracelet which you buy for your child may pose a health hazard for your loved one, with a new study claiming that artificial jewellery found in Delhi
David Leigh, Rob Evans and Mona Mahmood Lead dust harmed children's IQ. The chemical was outlawed in West 10 years ago. Tetra ethyl lead (TEL) is a killer chemical, nowadays banned in the west for use in car fuel. The colourless, oily liquid is so toxic that workers went mad …
Minutes of the meeting held on 24th June 2010 at Export Inspection Council of India to discuss the future course of action on account of non approval of honey RMP by EC.
The 27-nation European Union has banned imports of Indian honey, alleging that consignments of the natural nectar from the country are contaminated with lead. The commerce secretary, Mr Rahul Khullar, on Friday said the government was looking at ways to resolve the issue of import ban. The ban was put …
Although the toxic effects of metals, such as arsenic, cadmium, lead, and mercury, have been well established for higher level exposures, the demonstration of population-wide harmful effects at lower concentrations has been more difficult. One possible reason for this is that at comparatively lower levels of exposure, only some people …
Although tetraethyl lead was phased out of gasoline in Uganda in 2005, there are still concerns about the exposure of children through other sources. Graber et al. (p. 884) measured blood lead distributions among schoolchildren living near the Kiteezi landfill in Kampala, using a stratified, cross-sectional design to obtain blood …
Neha Sinha The Mayapuri radiation leak seems to have galvanised both the Centre and the Delhi governments into policy action on waste management. The governments of Delhi and Haryana will soon hold a meeting next month to discuss how the new hazardous waste treatment storage and disposal plant (TSDT) being …
Could the devastation caused by hurricanes Katrina and Rita have had a silver lining? The sediment washed into New Orleans by the floods accompanying the storms may have blanketed over heavily polluted, lead-laden soil in the city, leading to a decrease in lead levels in the bloodstreams of children across …
JYOTI VERMA Lead in paints has been indicted as being a silent epidemic EXPERTS SUGGEST AVOIDING DEEP AND FLASHY YELLOW AND RED PAINTS AND ANY COLOUR/S BASED ON THESE Those who believe a healthy home is maintained through water filters, air purifiers and mosquito repellants, now need to scratch deeper. …
Pilot Study In CP Finds Disturbing Levels Of Heavy Metals That Pose Health Threat New Delhi: That the air we breathe is polluted is known to one and all. But did you know that we also breathe in heavy metals like thorium, uranium, lead and arsenic that pose a serious …
