Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur appearing in The Hindu dated 19.05.2025". The application is registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled 2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit …
Two Rajasthan high court advocates, Madhav Mitra and R.S. Chauhan, under the auspices of NGO Public Action Group, have filed a public inerest litigation demanding that packaged food companies, like soft drink makers, be directed to print the exact level of pesticide content on the food packs. A bench comprising …
vanilla growers in India's southern states are in deep trouble. They don't know what to do with the current season's crop because the buyers have disappeared from the market. The high price of vanilla in the international market had tempted these farmers to take up the cash crop's cultivation in …
• World's household consumption expenditure was US $20 trillion in 2000, up from US $4.8 trillion in 1960. Some of the increase was because of population growth, but much of it was driven by rising incomes • The consumption frenzy led to unsustainable use of natural resources. Between 1960 and …
it has been nine months since the us began its search for chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Although nothing was found, yet the us' paranoia over bioterrorism attacks has not waned. In fact, two new regulations to prevent such an incident came into force on December …
There are worry lines all over the face of M K Bhojan, a small tea grower in the Nilgiris district of Tamil Nadu. Tea prices have fallen cataclysmically in the last few years, affecting small farmers like Bhojan most acutely. In 1997-98, one kilogramme (kg) of green tea leaf fetched …
an unsavoury inter-ministerial squabble is obstructing the formulation of a unified food law for India. The sticking point is who gets to play the regulator. And the contenders are the Union ministry of health and family welfare (mohfw), and Union ministry of food processing industries (mofpi). The health ministry argues …
Drinking water falls under the purview of Union ministry of urban development and poverty alleviation (MoUDPA). The Central Public Health and Environmental Engineering Organisation (CPHEEO) under this ministry sets guidelines for drinking water quality. Local bodies
The Indian government has notified new standards for pesticide residues in bottled water. The notification came on July 18, 2003, bringing the curtains down on a 6-month drama that had turned quite farcical. 6 months ago, a study conducted by the New Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) (see: …
The Pollution Monitoring Laboratory (PML) of the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) places in the public domain its analysis of the contents of 12 cold drink brands sold in Delhi. Three bottles of each of the 12 brands were purchased from markets across the city and analysed to see …
indian exporters of chilli products are smarting. The eu has all but shut the door on them after recently detecting the presence of Sudan red 1, a carcinogenic industrial dye, in one of their consignments to France. And the Spices Board of India has cracked the whip on the three …
If the battle over failed farm trade talks in the World Trade Organisation (wto) wasn't enough, Brussels and Canberra look likely to clash again as eu members begin discussions on whether to allow imports of Australian wine treated with oak chips. Oak chips accelerate the process of flavouring the wine, …
chocolates even tempted our 2,600 year-old ancestors. Testimony to this are cocoa residues found in ancient ceramic vessels discovered from the town of Colha in Central America. Using a new, ultra-sensitive technique to analyse the residues, W Jeffrey Hurst and his colleagues from the Pennsylvania-based chocolate company Herschey, have found …
> Food is more than what lies on your plate. It"s someone"s labour. It"s someone"s export to meet your off-season demand. It"s what keeps the pesticide machinery well-oiled. It"s the wish for many. > Way back in 1970, the US spent about US$6 billion on fast food; in 2000 it …
Environmental activists in Hong Kong recently staged a protest against Nestle, a multinational food corporation, alleging that the company had failed to keep its promise to stop the use of genetically-modified (gm) ingredients in its products. During the protest, a vehicle blocked the exit of the company's factory to stop …
Climate change will have a negative impact on food production in tropical developing countries, reports a document of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). It states that the losses of production associated with climate change will be higher than those linked with weather-related disasters like cyclones. The FAO said that …
the Madhya Pradesh government has dissolved the state pollution control board after its chairperson V K Jain was arrested by the Lok Ayukta (la), an autonomous watchdog body. The la says that several documents in its possession reveal that Jain gave no objection certificates to several polluting industries, including distilleries, …
with no government regulations in place , until recently, the bottled water industry in India was totally unorganised. Any one could set up a bottling plant, fill bottles with tap water and sell it in the market. There was a big question mark on the quality of water. This may …
the US government will be legislating more stringent laws for genetically modified (gm) and biotech foods. gm food makers will be required to submit information about their products to the Food and Drug Administration ( fda ), the us food regulation agency, before marketing them. fda is planning to develop …
Hydrogenated fat, also called trans fatty acids, are used by the food industry to increase shelf life and flavour in a wide variety of products, including french fries, crackers, cookies and snack foods. But some scientific studies have linked trans fatty acids to premature heart disease. For instance, trans fatty …
