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 …
The tragic episode in a school in Bihar, where 23 children died because of contaminated food, is unacceptable. But it is also a fact that the midday meal scheme, under which cooked food is compulsorily provided to children in government schools across India, is too important and critical to be …
Sresta Natural Bioproducts, one of India's largest organic food companies, Monday announced "Freedom from pesticides", an eight-day campaign against pesticide ridden food. The campaign from Aug 12 to 19 aims to create awareness about ill effects of pesticide contaminated food and promote organic food as the best alternative for being …
At least 110 children were taken ill after eating mid-day meal in Bihar's Arwal and Jamui districts Wednesday in the second tragedy related to free school food in the state this month, officials said. On July 16, 23 children died after eating contaminated mid-day meal in Saran district. In Arwal …
Around 32 students of a government-aided school in Amdanga, North 24-Parganas, have fallen ill after eating midday meal at their school on Wednesday. Education minister BratyaBasu has ordered an inquiry. The 32 students of Bhogobati Smriti Uchha Bidyalaya at Gadamara started to throw up and complained of stomach ache after …
Developing countries should speed up the withdrawal of highly hazardous pesticides from their markets following the death of 23 children from contaminated food in India, the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization said on Tuesday. The children in the Indian state of Bihar died earlier this month after eating a …
The orange and vermicelli sold in the Dhaka city markets are all treated with formalin, said a test report by green rights activists on Sunday. The report says formalin has been detected in 82 of mangoes, 91 per cent of bananas, 59 per cent of apples, 95 per cent of …
Formalin is being used by the traders as a preservative in fish, fruits, meat, milk, vegetables and a wide variety of food items. Consumption of such food items, according to medical scientists, may cause deadly diseases like cancers and liver cirrhosis, asthma, skin ailments and kidney damage. About 30 - …
The pesticide that killed 23 Indian schoolchildren last week is a nerve poison banned by many countries because of what the World Health Organisation describes as its ‘high acute toxicity’. As early as 2009, the United Nations health agency urged India to consider a ban on the pesticide monocrotophos - …
A Special Investigating Team (SIT) formed by the Bihar government Tuesday began its probe into the deaths of 23 children after they ate a mid-day meal in a school. The eight-member team is headed by Saran district's Superintendent of Police Sujit Kumar. "A notice was issued Monday and the SIT …
Less than 24 hours after the Chhattisgarh government issued directive to schools to taste mid-day meals before they are served, 35 children of a primary school in Mou village in Raipur were hospitalized after having lunch on Saturday. While the condition of one student is reported to be serious others …
The government has taken a move to conduct a study to determine the presence of toxic heavy metals including cadmium and arsenic in rice, officials said. The Soil Resource Development Institute under the ministry of agriculture has been mandated to conduct the study in the wake of a report that …
In the wake of suspension of GSP (Generalised System of Preferences) facility by the US government for Bangladesh, the government on Monday formed a high-profile committee to pinpoint loopholes in the existing labour law and put forward recommendations to make it more time-befitting one, reports UNB. The committee, headed by …
The present study was carried out to assess contamination of five heavy metals (As, Cd, Cr, Pb and Zn) in five different types of green leafy vegetables viz., mustard (Brassica campestris), garden crees (Lepidium sativum), fennel (Foeniculum vulgare), coriander (Coriandrum sativum), and spinach (Spinacea oleracea) collected from different market sites …
Formalin is used in 93.75 per cent of mangoes selling in the capital, said a report of Save the Environment Movement on Tuesday. Among 96 collected samples the presence of formalin was detected in 90 samples, 93.75 per cent of the mangoes selling in the capital, said the report launched …
Amid reports of contamination of food products in China, UN's Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) has expressed concerns over pollution and food safety issues in the world's second largest economy. "We're concerned about pollution in general," Graziano da Silva, director-general of the FAO said. "We have seen a lot of …
The Kerala State Civil Supplies Corporation (Supplyco) will start testing rice, vegetables, meat and fish for contaminants, including pesticide residue, and make the results public for consumer awareness, beginning next month. It will be the first time in Kerala that vegetables, fish and meat will be extensively tested for poisonous …
As a step towards increasing the capacity to detect, control and prevent food-borne and other infectious diseases, a proposal will be sent to the Centre by the State to include Mysore and Chitradurga under the Global Food-borne Infections Network (GFN). They will be included in the World Health Organisation (WHO) …
These regulations may be called the Food Safety and Standards (Food Products Standards and Food Additives) Second Amendment Regulations, 2013. They shall come into force on the date of their final publication in the Official Gazette. In the Food Safety and Standards (Food Products Standards and Food Additives) Regulations, 2011, …
In 2010 Médecins Sans Frontières discovered a lead poisoning outbreak linked to artisanal gold processing in northwestern Nigeria. The outbreak has killed ~400 young children and affected thousands more. The objective of the study was to undertake an interdisciplinary geological and healthscience assessment to clarify lead sources and exposure pathways, …
New Delhi: Your neighbourhood sweetmeat shop may soon have to comply with stricter quality standards while preparing its rasgullas, barfis and snacks, with India’s food safety authority planning to bring in comprehensive norms for these eatables. The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has proposed the standardization of …
