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 …
Panic waves swept across the island nation when it was learnt that a consignment of contaminated corn from China had found its way into various food products. The corn, which contained more than 100 times the safe level of lead, was imported in October. It was then milled before being …
To produce the food most farmers use chemical pesticides to control weeds, pests and diseases, and to help them meet the appearance standards imposed by supermarkets. Residues from these pesticides may still be in the food when buy it - about half of all fruit and vegetables tested by the …
Health authorities in the Chinese city of Guiyang are recalling nearly 9,000 bags of milk powder. In early June, over 150 children in the southwestern province of Guizhou were poisoned by the product. Tests showed that it contained golden staphylococcus toxin, which causes heart fever, and even death. A similar …
The Codex Committee is supposed to focus on health, not trade. But the general perception is that trade dominates the agenda and therefore the commission's standards for acceptable daily intake of pesticides and their maximum residue levels are not stringent. ccpr's main purpose is to set maximum residue levels (mrls). …
The Soil Association (sa), an organic farming group, has found that up to 20 million eggs sold in the uk each week could contain traces of a potentially dangerous drug. In tests, nearly one in eight egg samples contained residues of the antibiotic lasalocid, harmful to people with heart ailments. …
Hazardous levels of colouring agents in the uk's favourite dish, chicken tikka masala, have caused a stir among health officials. Trading Standard Institute, a consumer protection unit, took 102 random samples of the food item from Indian restaurants in the uk. Of these, only 44 contained the substance within permissible …
The Kerala government has forbidden Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Private Limited (HCBPL) to use groundwater at its Plachimada plant in Palakkad district till June 15. According to chief minister A K Antony, drought in the district has necessitated the ban. On December 16, 2003, the Kerala High Court had ordered HCBPL …
This book describes the issues surrounding pesticide residues in food and drinking water and, in particular, the issues associated with human exposure and consumer risk assessment. In broad terms, consumer risk assessment encompasses three areas of scientific disciplines
This briefing paper on pesticide contamination and food safety makes a strong case for formulating standards for food and drinks and revamping the pesticide regulatory framework in the country. It discusses the need for legally enforceable standards addresses the larger issue of institutional reform in the governance of food safety …
A briefing paper on "pesticide contamination and food safety" - The CSE studies on pesticides in water and soft drinks, pesticides contamination and its health impacts, regulatory apparatus and processes, right to clean water and the industrial use of water.
There is never any end to learning. And so, surprises. We have learnt, over 20 years, that environmental governance in India is lackadaisical. Still, the extent of irresponsibility never fails to surprise. Some months ago we did a study on pesticides in bottled water. We were really looking at pesticides …
Liquid chromatography?electrospray ionization mass spectrometry methods (LC-ESI-MS and LC-ESI-MS/MS) for the determination of five macrolide antibiotics including spiramycin, tilmicosin, oleandomycin, erythromycin, and tylosin in honey are presented. Macrolides were protonated to form singly and/or doubly charged pseudomolecular ions, depending on their chemical structures, in an electrospray positive ionization mode. Data …
• An inspection team of the Karnataka government pays a surprise visit to Thottadhagudathahalli primary school, located on the outskirts of Bangalore, and detects discrepancies in the rice and oil stocks meant for students' meals. • Less than 2 kilometres away, at the Sidedahalli government primary school, 45 students and …
I met an eminent economist last week. He quoted another eminent economist-cum-columnist, and asked me if it was true that apples had higher pesticide residues than Coke or Pepsi. Before I could respond, he rather menacingly concluded: "And is it not true that mother's milk has pesticide?" Evidently, "common-sensical truths" …
Streptomycin belongs to the group of aminoglycoside antibiotics. It was utilized in apiculture to protect bees against a variety of bee diseases. It was the aim of this study to develop a highly sensitive LC/MS/MS method, which could be validated, for the quantitative determination of streptomycin in honey.
A strain of influenza has left more than 700 people sick in the remote mountainous district of Dadeldhura in Nepal. The disease is believed to be spreading through polluted drinking water and contaminated food. Dadeldhura district public health office authorities reveal that the acute shortage of medicines and health workers …
