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 …
Maharashtra's Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has banned the sale of popular energy drink Red Bull in the state on the charge that it contains ingredients of animal origin. Some media reports alleged that one of the enzymes used in the drink comes from the bile of oxen. Red Bull …
bird flu in russia: Russia's emergencies ministry declared on July 21, 2005, that the country's first case of bird flu, the strains of which can infect humans and be fatal, had been detected in a village in Siberia's Novosibirsk region. "Numerous birds have died...and an investigation showed the presence of …
two teams of scientists in China have reported an outbreak of a new strain of a bird flu virus that has killed thousands of wild migratory birds in western China. The virus
Although most cases of childhood lead poisoning are caused by contaminated paint and dust in older homes, a variety of unusual sources of lead exposure are occasionally found. We report here 2 families whose children were poisoned by lead-contaminated spices that were purchased in foreign countries, brought to the United …
Close on the heels of Pakistan's president Pervez Musharraf announcing a three-year target to make potable water available to all, six people died due to water contamination in Lahore, Punjab's capital. At least 500 others fell sick. The mishap was caused by the mixing of sewage into the drinking water …
pakistani seafood exporters have been driven to the brink by a recent government ban on seafood exports following an inspection by a three-member team of the eu Food and Veterinary Office (fvo). T he team warned Pakistani authorities that the country would lose its largest seafood export market if it …
Quinolone antibacterials are veterinary drugs authorized for use in food animal production. The analysis of residual amounts of drugs in food from animal origin is important for quality control of products for consumers. For this purpose, Maximum Residue Limits (MRLs) have been set up by a European Union Council Regulation …
A mid pronouncements of a possible global bird flu pandemic by scientists from the West, reports came in from China on May 27, 2005, indicating a dangerous spread of the disease there. Director general of Chinese agriculture ministry's veterinary bureau, Jia Youling, said the number of migratory birds recently killed …
pesticide levels thought safe for pollinators may prove harmful for the wild bee, says a Canadian study. It shows adult bumblebees exposed to significant levels of the pesticide spinosad during larval development have impaired foraging (food collecting) ability. In developed countries, about one third of human food depends on pollinating …
An analytical method for the determination of OTC and TC residues in honey was developed. Sample treatment involves an extraction in EDTA-McIlvaine buffer, followed by a solid-phase cleanup step. With regard to the cleanup procedure, different SPE cartridges were evaluated and the results presented. The method was validated according to …
The uk recently ordered the largest ever food recall in its history, amounting to us $28.76 million, due to the scare of contamination by carcinogenic chemical colourant sudan-1. The contaminant is alleged to have entered the food products through red chilli powder imported from India. The powder is believed to …
A method using liquid chromatography electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry (LC/ESI-MS/MS) for the determination of trace levels of five macrolide antibiotics (spiramycin, tilmicosin, oleandomycin, erythromycin, and tylosin) in eggs is presented. Data acquisition under MS/MS was achieved by applying multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) of two or three fragment ion transitions …
A simple and rapid analytical method was developed for the determination of lincomycin and tylosin residues in honey as part of field studies examining the efficacy and target animal safety of these antibiotics to control American foulbrood disease in honey bees. Residues of the antibiotics were determined using liquid chromatography/electrospray …
a scare of dioxin contamination in animal feed has gripped the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, France and Spain. The Dutch farm ministry sealed off nearly 200 livestock farms recently after carcinogenic dioxin was detected in a potato feed product used in the country. About 96 of these farms were re-opened later …
Edible oils such as coconut, groundnut, hydrogenated vegetable, linseed, mustard, olive, palm, refined vegetable, rice bran, safflower, sesame, soybean, and sunflower were analyzed for the presence of light and heavy polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) residues using liquid-liquid extraction, cleanup on a silica gel column, and resolution and determination by HPLC …
Reports of high mercury content in us waters have alarmed American Indians in Minnesota, among the biggest fish consumers. According to a recent report based on us Environmental Protection Agency data, 44 states, including Minnesota, have high levels of mercury in their waters. Earlier this year, the Minnesota Pollution Control …
Japan might ease its total ban on us beef. It is considering granting an exemption to us cows aged 20 months or younger from testing for mad cow disease before shipping. The proposal was recently submitted by Japan's agriculture and health ministries to the government's Food Safety Commission for approval. …
The use of the two macrolides antibiotics Spiramycin (S) and Tylosin (T) as growth promoters in animal feeding has been recently withdrawn in the European Union due to a concern about the outbreaks of farmacoresistance fenomena as a possible hazard for humans. For feed additives monitoring purposes, an analytical method …
