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 …
Marinating chicken before grilling can cut down the carcinogens in the meat, according to results presented at the American Chemical Society meeting in San Francisco. Researchers have known for long that grilling of meat converts harmless compounds in muscle, like sugars and amino acids, into heterocyclic amines which promote the …
AN INVENTION at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, us, promises to mitigate the potentially deadly effects of the bacteria Eschcrichia coli. Every year, the toxic E coli kills as many as 200 people in the us alone by causing intense intestinal distress, severe dehydration and internal bleeding, and in serious …
A study carried out by scientists of the Andhra Pradesh Agricultural University says a high rate of pesticide residue in the milk of lactating mothers in the Krishna delta region of the state is exposing infants to leihal food contamination. Researchers have found that the percentage of pesticide residue in …
The cargo ship mv-emb-t Emerald recently left Kenya's port of Mombasa loaded with 100,000 kilograms of radioactive milk powder. The potentially lethal commodity was being returned to Rotterdam, Netherlands, its port of origin. Top officials from Kenya's Radiation Protection Board under its health ministry of health, said that the country …
Duplicate samples of the diet of vegetarian adults were analyzed to estimate the residues of dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane (DDT) and benzene hexachloride (BHC). The total food consumed by an adult per day was collected and categorized as fatty food, non-fatty food, water, and beverages. Fatty food was the main source of these …
SEVERAL foods people all over the country consume daily -- milk, butter and cereals, for example -- have been found to contain substances hazardous to health by a nationwide survey conducted by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). The ICMR surveyors found that as much as 87 per cent …
This paper reviews recent developments in the liquid chromatographic (LC) methods of analysis for the residues of antibiotics (aminoglycosides, chloramphenicol, sulfonamides, tetracyclines, macrolides, ?-lactams, etc.) in food products of animal origin. The review also covers clean-up procedures, such as, ultrafiltration, liquid-liquid partition, solid-phase extraction, immunoaffinity, and matrix solid-phase dispersion, for …
Foodstuffs collected from different regions in India were analyzed for the presence of HCH (BHC), DDT, HCB, aldrin, dieldrin, heptachlor, and PCBs. Significantly high levels of food contamination with HCH, DDT, aldrin, and dieldrin were evident throughout India. Dairy products and livestock meat are the prime sources of human dietary …
