Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zone Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Ujjwal Sharma Vs Union of India & Others dated 10/01/2025. An application was registered on the basis of a news item titled "1 Kodo poisoning behind elephant deaths in MPs Bandhavgarh All you need to know" …
An estimated 2.1 million people die in the world annually from food poisoning and of other food-borne diseases, participants in a seminar in Dhaka said on Wednesday. Food contamination refers to the presence in food of harmful chemicals and micro-organisms, which cause consumer illness, they added saying that most of …
Dharmapuri AS many as 200 students, including 90 girls, of standard I to VIII of the Asthagiriyur Panchayat Union Middle School in Morappur block were admitted to the Dharmapuri Government Medical College Hospital in the area, after they complained of vomiting on Thursday. Out of the total strength of 389 …
Patients newly recognized as victims of a 1968 mass food poisoning across western Japan filed a damages suit Friday against the manufacturer of contaminated cooking oil, Kanemi Soko KK, demanding that the company and its two officials pay 286 million yen. The suit, filed by 26 plaintiffs with the Kokura …
Chinese President Hu Jintao called for bolstered trust and cooperation with Japan as he arrived in the country Tuesday for the first visit by a Chinese head of state in a decade. Hu, who arrived on a special Air China flight, is scheduled to hold summit talks with Japanese Prime …
The incidence of waterborne diseases is on the rise in the state. In all, 917 cases of acute diarrhoea were reported from the city in the last four months, of which 80 were detected in the last one week. In this context, the task force of the health department held …
food poisoning might just be arrested before it strikes using a new method developed by researchers at Purdue University, usa. They have come up with a technology that even retail outlets can use to detect pathogens in food before it is sold. "The method allows us to detect live pathogenic …
At least 17 persons, most of them children and women, have died in three Upper Assam districts of Golaghat, Jorhat and Sibsagar after having consumed wild poisonous mushrooms in the past four days. The state Government has now warned people not to consume unidentified mushrooms. While 10 persons have died …
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 …
It was just another day at work for the employees of Om Innovation Call Service (OICS) in Janakpuri. At 2 pm, over 100 employees went for lunch at the company cafeteria as usual. Instead of returning to their workstations, however, they had to be rushed DDU Hospital with complaints of …
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 …
Take 250 grams besan (gram powder), add salt, chilli, coriander powder and garam masala (a mixture of different sprices) to taste. Add baking soda and mix with water to the consistency of curd (same as that for making pakode). Wash leaves and dry, ensuring the leaf pieces should be of …
Deficiencies the government saw in the Seeds Act, 1966 • Registration of seed varieties isn't compulsory • Varieties not notified by the ICAR not covered • Commercial crops and plantation crops not covered • Certification only through state government agencies • No provision for regulating transgenic materials • Penalties for …
1966: Seeds Act passed, combines the US self-labelling system (for private seed sellers) and the European system of testing and certification (for public sector research establishment seeds). Has no way to regulate the private sector 1968: Seeds Rules notified 1972: Seeds (Amendment) Act, 1972. Central Seed Certification Board created to …
