Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of New item titled "Â major fire breaks out at Bhagtanwala Dump” appearing in The Tribune dated 11.05.2024 dated 01/04/2025. The application, registered suo motu, the tribunal considered the issue of legacy waste which has been accumulated at Bhagtanwala garbage dump …
Ensuring food safety to protect public health and promote economic development remains a significant challenge in both developing and developed countries. Considerable progress to strengthen food safety systems has been achieved in many countries, highlighting the opportunities to reduce and prevent food-borne disease. However, unacceptable rates of foodborne illness still …
One of the significant areas in which pesticide residue analysis differs significantly from macro-analysis is that of contamination and interference. Trace amounts of contamination in the final samples used for the determination stage of the method can give rise to errors such as false positive or false negative results or …
the joint Parliamentary Committee's (jpc) recommendations in its report on pesticide residues in, and safety standards for, soft drinks, fruit juices and other beverages have elicited little response from the Union government. An action taken report, submitted to the parliament by the Union government of health and family welfare (mohfw) …
fruits distributed to schoolchildren by the uk's department of health (under its five-a-day programme) contain over 25 per cent more pesticide residues than those on sale in shops. These are the findings of the uk -based Soil Association (sa), which represents organic producers. The government's pesticide residue committee (prc), however, …
Water has pivotal role for the survivality of the mankind. The hydrobiological cycle stores about 0.6% of water as ground water. The ground water level increase by percolation which is extensively used for biodrinking and irrigation. The pesticide in the chemical element causes artificial and natural ground water pollution. Subarnapur …
sonia's take: While the Centre plans to move the National Rural Employment Guarantee Bill in the current session of Parliament, Congress president Sonia Gandhi recently suggested four amendments to it. She said employment should be guaranteed to anyone who offers to work for the prescribed wage, not merely to the …
A bill to consolidate the laws relating to food and to establish the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India for laying down science based standards for articles of food and to regulate their manufacture, storage, distribution, sale and import, to ensure availability of safe and wholesome food for human …
cancer risk among rural workers exposed to pesticides is almost twice as high as that for non-exposed workers, according to a Brazilian study published in the journal Environment International (July, Vol 31, No 5). Brazil is the world's seventh largest pesticide consumer. Researchers Illona Maria de Brito S
in response to Coca-Cola and PepsiCo's clarification applications, on June 1, 2005, the Rajasthan High Court (hc) issued final directions on the exact declaration regarding pesticide content to be made on the packaging of soft drinks by manufacturers. "...we require the applicants to declare on soft drink bottles, package or …
a european study reveals a link between pesticides and Parkinson's disease (pd), claiming the greater the pesticide exposure, the higher the risk of developing the ailment. pd is an incurable, degenerative neurological condition where people have difficulty in moving their limbs and develop tremors and facial tics. A survey of …
Organochlorines • Mean total ddt in blood samples of Punjab was 0.0652 mg/l • Mean levels of aldrin in blood samples were 0.0062 mg/l and ranged from not-detectable (nd)
In theory, LD 50 and acceptable daily intake provide reliable estimate of how much of a particular toxin an average person can be safely exposed to. But in practice, this method is highly inadequate: it does not consider the cocktail of numerous pesticides most people carry. So while individually every …
It is "understood' that since organophosphates (OPs) are not persistent they would be excreted through urine and hence should be monitored in urinary samples. But presence of OPs in blood means that they do persist in the body for a good amount of time. It also indicates the presence, in …
That’s the surmise of the Punjab Pollution Control Board’s (ppcb) final report of a year-long study to explore high cancer rates in certain areas of Bhatinda district, Punjab. ppcb had commissioned the School of Public Health (sph), department of public health, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (pgimer), …
At 9.20 pm everyday, a passenger train leaves Bhatinda town for Bikaner in Rajasthan. "It's full of cancer patients,' says Umendra Dutt of the ngo Kheti Virasat. The patients are bound for the Acharya Tulsi Regional Cancer Treatment and Research Center (rcc)
Acharya Tulsi Regional Cancer Treatment and Research Centre (RCC), Bikaner caters to patients mainly from Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana and even Uttar Pradesh. The hospital was founded in the 1940s; then, it was the only centre in north-west India providing radiation therapy. In 1999, it was recognised as a regional cancer …
function graph() { var popurl="image/20050615/28-graph.jpg" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=620,height=450,scrollbars=yes") } Anecdotal reports of high incidence of cancer had been coming from certain areas of Punjab since last few years. It is common knowledge that pesticide use in Punjab is amongst the highest in India. We also came to know another study that explored …
