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 …
Even after explosions rocked the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Kuniaki Sato, who raises cattle here about 20 miles from the crippled complex, said he had received no clear warning from the government about the possible dangers of radiation to his herd. So six weeks after the accident, on April …
More than 500 beef cattle that ate feed contaminated by radioactive material from Fukushima have already shipped to other parts of Japan, an initial result of inspections on the area's farms showed Monday. Separately, Yomiuri newspaper said Japan's central government is expected to announce restrictions on shipments of beef cattle …
Japan's second-biggest retailer said on Sunday it had sold beef from cattle that ate nuclear-contaminated feed, the latest in a series of health scares from radiation leaking from a quake-crippled nuclear power plant. Cases of contaminated vegetables, tea, milk, seafood and water have already stoked anxiety after the world's worst …
Demonstrators from a human chain on Friday called for taking stern action against the business of adulterated and poisonous foods that were sickening and killing innocent consumers. Business in chemically poisoned foods and fruits has not stopped despite anti-adulteration drives of the government, the demonstrators alleged. The human chain was …
After the Fukushima nuclear disaster spewed radiation across northern Japan in March, some feared that farming there would be shut down for years. But early studies of how the radiation has accumulated in plants and the soil now suggest that farmers in much of the region can go back to …
IT IS a case of deadly food poisoning. Caused by a new strain of Escherichia coli bacterium, the outbreak has sickened over 2,000 people in the EU in the past month. At least 25 succumbed to the disease in Germany, the epicentre of the outbreak; more than 600 were hospitalised …
Once again there is a food safety scare. A deadly strain of E coli bacterium has hit Germany, where it has taken the lives of 25 people and affected another 2,300 till date. German food inspectors on the trail of the source of contamination have as yet made two errors—blaming …
Organic farming must ditch its irrational mistrust of science or risk losing its reputation as being safer and healthier. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028186.200-irradiating-organic-food-would-save-lives.html?full=true&print=true
p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } German E. coli deaths show it's time to look past the wonder drugs of the 1950s in the battle against lethal bacteria. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028163.600-beyond-antibiotics-a-new-way-to-fight-superbugs.html?full=true&print=true
Geneva: Escherichia coli, a deadly foodborne bacteria, has infected over 1600 people in 11 European nations, including Germany and Spain, even as experts are working to find out the source of the malady. World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday said
The debate regarding dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) in malaria prevention and human health is polarized and can be classified into three positions: anti-DDT, centrist-DDT, pro-DDT. The authors attempted to arrive at a synthesis by matching a series of questions on the use of DDT for indoor residual spraying (IRS) with literature and …
In the early 1990s, hospitals in Sri Lanka’s North Central Province, the main agricultural region of the country, started reporting an unusually high incidence of chronic renal failure. About 5,000 persons reported ill in 1993. By 2009, the disease assumed epidemic proportions. That year over 9,000 patients from North Central …
With 10 people dead of infection and 400 cases reported, the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control said Sunday that a bacterial outbreak in northern Germany was one of the largest of its kind ever reported worldwide. The infection, from a strain of Escherichia coli, can lead to kidney …
Pesticide overuse, irrigation by untreated sewage water, poor sanitation at food markets, and faulty cold storages. Punjab and Haryana, as major foodgrain, fruit, vegetable, poultry and milk producing states, are yet to eliminate food safety hazards. Now, they will have to do all this and more under a new set …
School children in the US were served 200,000 kilos of meat contaminated with a deadly antibiotic-resistant bacteria before the nation's second largest meat packer issued a recall in 2009. A year earlier, six babies died and 300,000 others got horribly sick with kidney problems in China when one of the …
If numbers were enough, the case of Organic Seed Growers & Trade Association, et al versus Monsanto would already be won. On March 29, family farmers—in America, this essentially means small farmers; in India it would be redundancy— along with seed dealers and international organic farming organisations, filed an unusual …
India will not ban food imports from Japan immediately as no item has yet tested positive for radioactive contamination. All food imports, however, will now need mandatory
Japan Readies To Inject Nitrogen Into Reactor To Prevent Blast After Hydrogen Buildup Tokyo: Workers stopped a highly radioactive leak into the Pacific off Japan
Kiev (Ukraine): Greenpeace said hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians are still eating food contaminated by radiation from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion a quarter-century after the blast. In a report, the environmental group said samples of milk,berries,potatoes and root vegetables in two Ukrainian regions show unacceptably high levels of …
