The IMF’s April 2025 Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa presents a clear warning: regional growth is slowing, debt pressures are mounting, and donor assistance is declining. Yet the report outlines critical opportunities particularly in domestic revenue mobilization, structural reform, and private sector activation that can shape a more resilient …
Beijing: The war over toys is set to get grimmer. Barely two weeks after India announced a six-month ban on toys from China, Beijing is set to challenge the decision in the World Trade Organization. The move, reported by a Chinese daily, is being seen as Beijing
Industry reluctant, regulators lax The only hiccup in implementing a wide scale, cfl -based energy-saving programme in India is mercury, a small but essential component of the lamp. Mercury is a proven neurotoxin. Inhaling mercury vapours can severely damage the respiratory tract. Sore throat, coughing, pain or tightness in the …
Mumbai: The central Government on Thursday informed the Bombay High Court that they have banned the import of toys from China for six months as an interim measure till the toxicity of the toys is assessed. A S Shinde, Deputy Director General of Foreign Trade, has stated in his affidavit …
Tightening its noose around the scrap dealers operating clandestinely in the Baddi-Barotiwala-Nalagarh (BBN) industrial area from the neighbouring the Haryana State Pollution Control Board has stepped up its drive to check their anti-environmental activities. It was during the recent surprise checks that the board confiscated as many as 7 to …
Chinese dairy companies that sold melamine-tainted milk are ready to pay compensation to families of nearly 300,000 children who became ill or died from drinking contaminated infant formula, a news agency reported on Saturday. Twenty-two dairy producers will make a one-time cash payment to the victims
New Delhi: Endorsing the general concern on imported toys containing toxic and poisonous materials flooding the country, the Government has decided to subject such toys to a stricter scrutiny by mandating that they would have to conform to the provisions of Standards of Weights and Measures (Packaged Commodities) Rules 1977, …
NEW DELHI: The Centre on Friday said none of the Ayurvedic medicines exported by leading Indian manufacturers has toxic heavy metals beyond permissible limits. Denying a report in a U.S. journal that detectable levels of lead, mercury or arsenic were found in some Ayurvedic products, Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss said …
India blocked export restrictions on them at Rotterdam Convention india yet again played spoilsport by preventing chrysotile asbestos and endosulfan from being included in Annex III of un
Candy, snacks, bakery products, pet food and other Chinese products that contain milk will be detained at the U.S. border until tests prove that they are not contaminated, the U.S. government announced. The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday that it issued the alert because of concern about such products …
Before melamine-laced milk killed and sickened Chinese babies and led to recalls around the world, the routine spiking of milk with illicit substances was an open secret in China's dairy regions, according to the accounts of farmers and others with knowledge of the industry. Farmers here in Hebei province say …
Chinese regulators said over the weekend that they had confiscated and destroyed more than 3,600 tons of animal feed tainted with melamine, an industrial chemical that has been blamed for contaminating food supplies in China and for leading to global recalls of Chinese dairy products. In what appears to be …
NEW DELHI: The World Health Organisation (WHO) is alerting its member States southeast Asia on the possible dangers of distribution and consumption of melamine-contaminated milk products. Contaminated batches of infant formula or other milk-containing products such as biscuits, chocolates and snack food have reportedly been exported to the region, posing …
In India, it is estimated that more than 10 million chemicals are used commercially. Industrial chemicals comprise almost two thirds of these chemicals. There is a wide range of hazards posed by chemicals. These have been classified according to their physico-chemical properties, reactivity and toxicity and the type of hazards …
Beijing, A government in northeast China kept quiet the discovery of melamine-tainted eggs for weeks and ordered a media ban before Hong Kong authorities finally revealed the problem, state press said. The animal sanitation inspection department of Liaoning province suspected the tainted eggs came from chicken feed and ordered an …
More than 50 countries have banned it. The World Health Organisation says its causes cancer. Even a country that exports it to India prefers not to use it domestically. But India refuses to even label asbestos as a hazardous material and is again ready to internationally commit to import it …
Beijing: Nearly a quarter of around 3,00,000 babies in the Chinese Capital were once fed melamine contaminated milk, before the product was taken off the shelves, media reports here claimed on Sunday. A door-to-door survey conducted from September 20 to October 24 in the city, revealed that of more than …
