BAN ON the drug diclofenac, administered on domestic animals, has had a positive impact on the vulture population. It had not been quantified till recently. The rate of decline has slowed down—from 40 per cent to 18 per cent. The number of oriental white-backed vulture (Gyps bengalensis) had dropped drastically …
IT IS a case of deadly food poisoning. Caused by a new strain of Escherichia coli bacterium, the outbreak has sickened over 2,000 people in the EU in the past month. At least 25 succumbed to the disease in Germany, the epicentre of the outbreak; more than 600 were hospitalised …
Four persons, including three children, died after consuming poisonous mushroom at Bohupathar in Khumtai LAC in Golaghat district today. The dead have been identified as Lakhimi Baruah (10), Lucky Baruah (8), Gautom Baruah (5) and Papu Ahmed (11).
Eating the food provided at the balwadi has left 11 children ill and three of them in the hospital. The balwadi, in Posiyampatti village in Thennilai panchayat in Karur district, has 25 children on its rolls but on Thursday only 11 of them had turned up when it opened for …
A type of bacteria present in the food eaten by some doctors and other staff members of IGMH had been the cause of the food poisoning incident at IGMH last week, the Maldives Food & Drug Authority has said. A number of staff at Indhira Gandhi Memorial Hospital had suffered …
The concentration of pesticide detected in Chinese-made frozen dumplings which sickened family members in Chiba Prefecture in January was found to be up to about 10,000 times in excess of the quarantine standard, police officials said Thursday. According to police investigations, the amount of the organophosphate pesticide methamidophos found from …
Exports to Japan of some Chinese-made food items have come to a halt as Chinese inspectors are taking time to rigorously check product safety following the discovery of tainted meat dumplings in Japan, Japanese food processors said Thursday. Those companies said they are closely monitoring developments in China as sales …
Top Japanese and Chinese police officials agreed Monday to spur investigations into toxic dumpling cases by offering evidence the two countries have collected to each other, Japanese officials said. The accord was reached when top officials from Japan's National Police Agency held talks with their Chinese counterparts in Beijing on …
