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 …
The recommendations in this document address pending decisions and petitions currently before federal agencies responsible for regulating pesticides and promoting alternatives, and offer suggestions for immediate directional shifts needed to develop America
The purpose of the new edition is to introduce the basic concepts of water quality and how it is related to ecosystem and human health; and to present an overview and assessments of current and upcoming global water quality issues with examples from around the world. It also includes a …
The dossiers submitted by Mahyco in support of their application for commercialisation of genetically modified (GM) Bt brinjal raise serious concerns. Bt brinjal has been modified to produce an unknown chimeric insecticide toxin containing Cry1Ab and Cry1Ac modified sequences. In the toxicity tests on target and non-target insects, this chimeric …
Each year as a follow up to the official processes which regulate pesticides, government monitors food to check that the residue levels found are within those expected from normal use of the pesticide and checks that legal trading levels (Maximum Residue Levels) are not breached for both imported and home-produced …
Report of the Joint Meeting of the FAO panel of experts on pesticide residues in food and the environment and the WHO core assessment group on pesticide residues held at Rome from 9-18 Sep 2008. The annual Joint Meeting of the FAO Panel of Experts on Pesticide Residues in Food …
1. STICKING TO A CAUSE Chipko Movement, 1973 The 1980s saw the debate on environment move from just deforestation to the larger issues of depletion of natural resources
In the high court of judicature at Bombay criminal writ petition of 2008 on pesticide residues monitoring study analyzing self collected environmental and biota samples from Padre village in Kasargod district of Kerala for endosulfan residues.
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A bill to regulate the import, manufacture, export, sale, transport, distribution, quality and use of pesticides with a view to. control pests; ensure availability of quality pesticides; allow its use only after assessing its efficacy and safety; minimize the contamination of agricultural commodities by pesticide residues; create awareness among users …
Identifying and quantifying pesticides in fruits and vegetables is important for public health and safety reasons. As sample loads increase, analysts look for ways to enhance the speed of sample preparation and analysis while maintaining high data quality. The United States Department of Agriculture has implemented the Pesticide Data Program …
The researchers evaluated the relationship between diagnosed depression and pesticide exposure using information from private pesticide applicators enrolled in the Agricultural Health Study between 1993 and 1997 in Iowa and North Carolina.
The Ministry of Food Processing Industries, GOI, has declared 2008-09 as Food safety and Quality Year. Food safety implies absence or safe levels of various of kinds of contaminants. Sources of food contamination include harmful chemicals, heavy metals, pesticides, preservatives, colouring agents, additives, adulterants etc. Food contamination leads of life-threatening …
The efficacy of carbosulfan was evaluated during kharif, 2005-06 against rice stem borer, Scripophaga incertulas in comparison with chlorpyriphos. The results revealed that all the insecticidal treatments reduced the insect population significantly over untreated control and incurred significantly higher yield.
Punjab Chief Minister Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has said that provision of adulteration free pesticides to the farmers would be ensured for substantial increase of agri-production. He also said that no leniency would be shown to those engaged in the heinous crime of adulteration and such elements would not be …
Hyderabad, Nov. 3: Prohibited pesticides are in rampant use across the state and the stark reality is that the authorities, which are supposed to prevent pesticide use, are themselves recommending it, unaware of the consequences. The Central Insecticides Board and Registration Committee (CIB & RC) has given a list of …
