The Standing Committee on Chemicals and Fertilizers presented its report on ‘Insecticides and Pesticides – Promotion and Development including Safe Usage – Licensing Regime for Insecticides’ on December 19, 2023. Pesticides are broadly of four types: insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, and bio-pesticides. Herbicides kill/control the growth of weeds, and have the …
Nearly half of food products in Europe contain residues of pesticides, with strawberries the most likely to exceed legal limits, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) said on Thursday. The official EU body also found traces of pesticides in organic foods, though it said its analysis of almost 81,000 food …
Soil toxicity alarmingly high; urea consumption estimated at 400-600 kg per hectare Punjab, the country’s food basket, has slowly turned into the land of toxicity. Excessive use of pesticides and fertilisers by farmers and a largely indifferent establishment has over the years resulted in severe ecological and environmental degradation that …
Plan hunger stir during the budget session The Endosulfan Peeditha Munnani (EPM) has decided to stage a hunger strike in front of the State Assembly during its upcoming budget session demanding fulfilment of assurances given to the victims in the past. The decision to launch the stir was taken following …
Streams within approximately 40% of the global land surface are at risk from the application of insecticides. These were the results from the first global map to be modeled on insecticide runoff to surface waters, which has just been published in the journal Environmental Pollution by researchers from the Helmholtz …
Fifty-year-old Sundari is under medication for the last 10 years for psychiatric problem. Last week, she had come for medicines to the primary health centre in Kokkada — one of the villages in Dakshina Kannada about 75 km from Mangaluru — where endosulfan victims are big in number. “Of the …
High levels of yellow sand and particle-laden smog known as PM 2.5 are now being registered in some parts of the nation, creating misery for allergy sufferers and posing a potential hazard from prolonged exposure. The first clouds of yellow sand were observed in Kyushu and Yamaguchi Prefecture on Sunday …
A study has revealed the presence of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), organic compounds resistant to environmental degradation which have been banned throughout the country, in many vegetables grown in Meerut district. These vegetables are also supplied to markets in Delhi, NCR and parts of UP. The study, conducted by NEER …
Bird flu may not have been the cause behind the deaths of 47 birds at Sultanpur sanctuary in Gurgaon recently. Officials now suspect something more lethal. Biologists and Haryana forest department officials said there is a high probability that the birds died of pesticide poisoning from neighboring fields. The sanctuary …
Toxic air pollutants even a trace amount heighten the risk of childhood cancer, according to cancer specialists, who say that the overall incidence of childhood cancer in India is reported to be over a lakh of new cases per year. “About 1.6 to 4.8 per cent of all cancers in …
Science paper recommended ways of identifying hormone-mimicking chemicals in pesticides linked to foetal abnormalities, genital mutations, infertility and other diseases including cancer As many as 31 pesticides with a value running into billions of pounds could have been banned because of potential health risks, if a blocked EU paper on …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Court on its own motion & Others Vs. State of Punjab & Others dated 02/02/2015 regarding impact of pesticides as well as the contamination of underground water on health.
Pesticidal stress is very common factor today in human health and animal health. Most of the world s population depends upon fish food. Fishes can serve as bioindicators of environmental pollution since they are directly exposed to chemicals resulting from agricultural production via surface run off or in directly through …
About 75 per cent of the cultivable land in the country has been adversely affected by excessive use of chemical fertilisers and pesticides. Commissioner in the Union Ministry of Agriculture Dr JS Sandhu said 114 million hectares of cultivable land out of total 142 million hectares had high levels of …
There is a mystery kidney disease that for years has been killing thousands of farmers in Sri Lanka's rice basket — and as it spreads, locals are becoming increasingly fearful. In 20 years the disease has killed up to 20,000 people and sickened up to 400,000 more; some villages report …
Low import duty on pesticides and other chemicals, including ripening agents, growth hormones and dyes, is a major reason for their increased use and food adulteration, according to a recent study by Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies or BIDS. At present, most pesticides including growth hormones are subjected to just …
Alarmed by the critically endangered status of vultures in the country, the forthcoming tiger census will also include the count of raptors from the respective States along with big cats. The report of the tiger census is expected to be released by January 20. The initiative has raised hopes for …
NGO warns that regulations for harmful pesticides would be weakened by policy proposed in a transatlantic trade agreement International trade agreement proposals could roll back protections from harmful pesticides in the US and EU, according to a new report (pdf) expected to be released Wednesday. As part of the transatlantic …
A new analysis exposes how the American and European pesticide industry is using ongoing EU-US trade negotiations to lower human health and environmental standards in order to increase trade in toxic pesticides. A new study by the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), Lowest Common Denominator: How the EU-US trade …
Vegetables are the noble folk of food world, loved equally by doctors and grandmothers. Vegetarians live off them and meat-eaters are told to live off them. But in Delhi, under every crunchy leaf of radish or the shiny brinjal hide dangerous amounts of pesticides that can slowly kill, shows a …
Lannate problem has persisted since several years: Agri officials. Lack of adequate precautionary methods, while spraying Lannate Insecticide is the cause of farmers taking ill in parts of Hunsur taluk, a committee of experts from Agriculture and Health departments has found. The insecticide has been banned temporarily in the district. …
