Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
FOR ENVIRONMENT: Registrar of Tamil Nadu Agricultural University P. Subbian speaking at a training programme on pesticide management at the university in Coimbatore. COIMBATORE: According to the World Health Organisation, one million human pesticide poisoning cases are reported all over the world with one-third of these occurring in farm workers. …
If the nationwide furore over Bt brinjal was driven by the fear of unsafe food being pushed down the throat, the proposed Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India (brai) bill goes a step further to silence all opposition. The bill will bring about changes in regulating the research, transport, import, manufacture …
If the nationwide furore over Bt brinjal was driven by the fear of unsafe food being pushed down the throat, the proposed Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India (brai) bill goes a step further to silence all opposition. The bill will bring about changes in regulating the research, transport, import, manufacture …
Some scientists are planning to write to the Indian government, saying you never carried out any independent study and had no access to Bt gene of maize or brinjal. What do you have to say? I was a referee to review the raw data of Mahyco (promoter of Bt brinjal) …
Production and use of polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) flame retardants has been reduced or eliminated because of concerns about health effects of these environmentally persistent compounds, but hexabromocyclododecane (HBCD) flame retardants are still in wide use. Schecter et al. measured concentrations of 24 PBDE congeners and total HBCD in composite …
David Barboza SHANGHAI: On December 31, Chinese regulators announced that they had arrested three executives and shut down a dairy company here for selling products contaminated with an industrial chemical called melamine. It looked like another sign that regulators had stepped up their food safety campaign after six children died …
Mercury has been investigated as a possible cause of autism, but its association with autism remains uncertain. Hertz-Picciotto et al. examined blood Hg levels and sources of Hg exposure among participants in the Childhood Autism Risk from Genetics and the Environment (CHARGE) Study, including 2- to 5-year-old children classified as …
This report represents the conclusions of a Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee convened to evaluate the safety of various food additives, with a view to recommending acceptable daily intakes (ADIs) and to preparing specifications for identity and purity. The first part of the report contains a general discussion of the principles …
The monographs contained in this volume were prepared at the seventy-first meeting of the Joint Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)/ World Health Organization (WHO) Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA), which met at WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, on 16
With the twin objectives of improving health and education of the poor children, India has embarked upon an ambitious scheme of providing mid day meals (MDM) in the government and government-assisted primary schools. The administrative and logistical responsibilities of this scheme are enormous, and, therefore, offering food stamps or income …
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 Geneva, Switzerland from 16-25 Sep 2009.
Police Raid On NGO Kitchen At Khichdipur Finds Dead Lizard In The Food New Delhi: Poor quality midday meals being served in schools is not uncommon. But the rice and dal served at a government school in Trilokpuri on Wednesday came close to being poisonous. At least 125 students from …
Food and Drugs inspectors visited the St Teresa of Jesus High School, Chaudi-Canacona on Friday morning to inspect the meals supplied by the contractor, accused of preparing contaminated meals to the school on Tuesday. The FDA inspectors also checked the school surroundings, before making a second visit to the kitchen …
Education Minister Babush Monserate on Thursday sought details from the three Assistant District Education Inspectors (ADEI) of Canacona in connection with the contaminated mid-day meals at a school in Canacona, even as Food and Drugs officials raided the kitchen of the self-help group that prepared the meals Earlier in the …
This paper describes how achieving food sovereignty will entail a fundamental shift away from the industrial and neo-liberal paradigm for food and agriculture towards: More direct democracy and greater citizen participation in framing policies for food and agriculture; respecting and including the voices of the very poor and marginalised (especially …
Mercury, specifically methylmercury (MeHg), has been shown to cause developmental and neurologic effects, with the severest effects being observed after catastrophic exposure to communities in Japan and Iraq [Bakir et al. 1973; Harada 1995; Kondo 2000; National Research Council (NRC) 2000]. Exposure to MeHg can come from many routes, but …
NEW DELHI: A soft drink company has been fined Rs 1 lakh and directed to pay Rs 50,000 compensation to a doctor who suffered food poisoning and had to be hospitalised after consuming a cola that reportedly contained fungus. The New Delhi District consumer forum has asked Hindustan Coca Cola …
Mormugao Police on Thursday arrested Sree Saraswati Mahila Mandal Chief Urmila Salgaokar, after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) confirmed that the mid-day meals supplied to Yuvak Sangh High School Headland Sada, Vasco, on August 8 was not fit for consumption. It may be recalled that 18 students, all between …
