Many pesticides which have been banned or severely restricted in some countries are in use in Kerala and other States. Kerala banned the use of 15 pesticides in May this year. However, about a dozen pesticides which were either banned or severely restricted in other countries continue to be used …
There was a time in the recently liberalised past when people didn't quite know how to refer to a new product called drinking water. They would say 'bottled water' and 'mineral water' to freely refer to one or the other kind of water, perhaps meaning the same one. It used …
Why are there pesticide residues in bottled water? This isn"t an isolated query. It condenses 3-4 lines of questioning: • What kind of water do companies use as raw material? • Companies are supposed to "treat" the raw water, clean it up. If so, then what kind of clean-up is …
'corporate Responsibility' has died a fancy death at the altar of public relations. A recent chemical analysis of branded packaged drinking water (commonly called bottled water) conducted by the Pollution Monitoring laboratory of Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment has brought out a horror story (see: gulp). All the major …
an unpublished report of the Austrian government has said that the European Union should ban the pesticide lindane with immediate effect because of its potentially serious effects on human health and the environment. The report, released by the Pesticides Trust, a uk -based environmental lobby group, said the chemical, widely …
Danish researchers have called for a national monitoring of lindane after traces of this chemical (banned in the country) were found in certain remote locations. An investigation by the Danish office for the Environment has established the fact that airborne lindane is being deposited in the southern and the western …
