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 us Environmental Protection Agency (epa) recently halted a controversial study, initiated in October 2004, on the adverse health affects of pesticide exposure on children (babies to three-year-olds). Health experts opposed the study on the ground that it purposely exposed children, especially those belonging to low-income families, to toxic chemicals. …
The pesticide 1,2-dibromo-3-chloropropane (dbcp) has created more legal trouble for three us fresh food producers and two global chemicals giants. These companies were earlier sued by Costa Rica's banana pickers for exposing them to various health problems by using and distributing dbcp, which is banned in the us ( see …
one in five us farm workers regularly handling organophosphate (op) and carbamate (cb) pesticides suffers serious health effects such as nausea, headaches, fatigue and seizures, according to a report released in mid-February. These pesticides are neurotoxins that significantly inhibit production of cholinesterase
• The Salim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History (sacon) in Coimbatore collected about 1,700 fish samples representing 66 species from 173 wetlands in 14 states. Of them, 1,600 samples were analysed for residues of pesticides including ddt and its metabolites, various isomers of hexachlorocyclohexane (hch), heptachlor and heptachlor …
Pesticides have become integral part of villagers in Punjab. Bhatinda district in Punjab, an important cotton belt of the country irrigated by canal water grows largely cotton and rice crop
dichloro chloro phenyl ethylene (dde), a toxic residue of ddt, has been found responsible for foetal loss, according to a study conducted by Mathew Longnecker and his co-workers at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in the us (Environmental Research, Vol 97, No 2 pp 127-133). From 1997-1999, blood …
Serious violations of environmental norms by pesticide manufacturers came to our notice through this shocking account by researchers from the department of zoology, Delhi University. They visited Chinhat Industrial Area near Lucknow and found stark evidence of toxic waste containing residues of hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) being disposed of by the units …
Be careful, but not paranoiac about pesticides. They are harmful but only when consumed in large doses. We are what we eat and drink. And our increasingly insecure existence is mirrored in our food fears: pesticides in fruits and vegetables, mercury in fish, bad fats in snacks, bird flu in …
when you buy a bottle of Coke, the company's sales figures increase. The stock price goes up, encouraging, activists claim, it to support dubious labour practices in Latin America, deplete groundwater in Kerala, and sell drinks laced with pesticides all over India. And now Max Keiser, a former New York …
Two Rajasthan high court advocates, Madhav Mitra and R.S. Chauhan, under the auspices of NGO Public Action Group, have filed a public inerest litigation demanding that packaged food companies, like soft drink makers, be directed to print the exact level of pesticide content on the food packs. A bench comprising …
Since the 1960s, the world's population has more than doubled and agricultural production per person has increased by a third. Yet this growth in production has masked enormous hidden costs arising from widespread pesticide use - massive ecological damage and high incidences of farmer poisoning and chronic health effects. Whereas …
Unique coast guard: The Sindh Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) is working for the formation of a monitoring and liaison committee to improve the dismal environmental condition in the islands off the Karachi coast and check the unhindered discharge of effluents into the sea. SEPA director general Shafiq Khuso says the …
poisonous exemption: The US and other industrialised countries have been granted further exemption for using methyl bromide as a pesticide and soil fumigant. A recent meeting of the parties to the Montreal Protocol, a global treaty to phase out ozone-depleting substances, decided to give a fresh exemption of over 2,600 …
for the first time anywhere in the world, soft drink majors Coca-Cola and PepsiCo will have to specify the ingredients, including pesticide content, on the labels of their products. On December 6, 2004, the Supreme Court (sc) dismissed the special leave petitions filed by Pepsi Foods Limited and Hindustan Coca-Cola …
golden danger: The fragile eco-system of Lake Bosumtwi, Ghana's largest natural lake, is in danger. Ghana's mineral commission has reportedly permitted a Canadian exploration and development company, Norcan Resources Limited, to explore the area around the lake for gold deposits. The company now needs only the clearance of Ghana's environmental …
One day in September this year, Rama Bhadraiah had a windfall. This small cola supplier in village Nadikude in Andhra Pradesh's Guntur district sold 50 crates of nine bottles each. Elsewhere, in village Bhaisra in Chhattisgarh's Rajnandgaon district, Kishan Katlam
another round of prevarications and delay tactics has hit the process of setting pesticide residue standards for soft drinks and carbonated beverages. Nearly 10 months after the Joint Parliamentary Committee (jpc) endorsed the findings of the Centre for Science and Environment (cse) on pesticide residues in soft drinks (see
chemists at the Indian Institute of Technology (iit), Chennai, have developed a nanoparticle-based technique to remove pesticides from drinking water. The feat is noteworthy, for exposure to pesticides can trigger genetic mutations and neurological disorders. The method was developed by A Sreekumaran Nair and T Pradeep from iit's Department of …
Studies were conducted on the occurence of metabolic mediated resistance in cotton aphid, Aphis gossypil to selected insecticides viz., endosulfan, monocrotophos, dimethoate, phosphamidon, carbaryl and cypermethrin using synergist TPP suppressible metabolic resistance even at 1:5 ratio in respect of monocrotophos and cypermethrin.
Four water and sediment samples were drawn from Keoladeo National Park Lake, Bharatpur to monitor pesticide residues. Estimation was done by GC-ECD using multiresidue method for organochlorine and synthetic pyrethroid insecticides.
