The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
Swimming pool disinfectants and disinfection by-products (DBPs) have been linked to human health effects (e.g., asthma and bladder cancer), but no studies have comprehensively identified DBPs in the water and determined their mutagenicity. Richardson et al. measured DBPs and disinfectant species in water from two public swimming pools in Barcelona, …
Agricultural pesticides account for at least 250,000 suicide deaths each year, making pesticides the single most common means of suicide worldwide. The proportion of suicide deaths attributable to pesticide self-poisoning varies considerably across the world: in Europe and the Americas fewer than 5% of suicide deaths involve pesticides; in the …
In a prospective cohort study of patients presenting with pesticide self-poisoning, Andrew Dawson and colleagues investigate the relative human toxicity of agricultural pesticides and contrast it with WHO toxicity classifications, which are based on toxicity in rats.
Biomonitoring of exposure in workplaces has gained importance in evaluation of human health hazards. Since occupational exposure to petroleum hydrocarbons may have deleterious effects, genotoxicity risk among 200 fuel filling station attendants (FFSAs) and 200 matched controls was investigated. http://annhyg.oxfordjournals.org/content/54/8/944.abstract
Dry fish is a popular delicacy lapped up across the country, but consumption of it is also hazardous for human health as the preservative used in keeping them dry is highly toxic. Dry fish traders at Kharinasi, Ramnagar and Paradip on the Bay of Bengal widely use the preservative to …
Toxicity evaluation is an important parameter in wastewater quality monitoring as it provides the complete response of test organisms to all compounds in wastewater. Grab samples of raw and ozonated textile dyeing wastewater was collected from the textile mill in Erode, Tamil Nadu.
AN 11-MEMBER committee, formed by the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR), is set to begin screening of toys made in India and abroad for toxicity. The tests will be conducted on 2,800 samples of toys collected from across India. Samples of branded and unbranded toys will be picked from …
Bisphenol A, a widely used chemical that Canada is banning from baby bottles, is present in the bodies of 91 percent of Canadians, according to a report that shows just how prevalent the controversial chemical is in daily life.
Solan: Detection of toxic chemical phenyl from the viscera of dead fish, which were killed in Chikni river early this month, has set alarm bells ringing for the State Pollution Control Board. These findings have emerged from the twin reports of two laboratories of the pollution board as well as …
MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court on Thursday sought a reply from the Union government why the standards for permissible toxic levels prescribed by the Bureau of Indian Standards was not made mandatory for toys-both imported and local-sold in India. A division bench of Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice S …
Dilip Kumar Jha / Mumbai July 09, 2010, 0:48 IST India is unlikely to be impacted by the new melamine and aflatoxin limit set by the UN Codex Alimentarius Commission (Codex), a body run jointly by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations and the World Health …
Mumbai: The central government may soon have to explain to the Bombay high court why the norms laid down by the Bureau of Indian Standards have not been made mandatory for toys
Bindu Shajan Perappadan NEW DELHI: Toxic lead was found in 54 samples of children's jewellery collected from different markets of the Capital including Old Delhi, Janpath, Lajpat Nagarand Sadar Bazar. According to a new report titled
The maximum amount of melamine allowed in powdered infant formula is 1 mg/kg and the amount of the chemical allowed in other foods and animal feed is 2.5 mg/kg, according to the new ruling from the United Nations
An earring or bracelet which you buy for your child may pose a health hazard for your loved one, with a new study claiming that artificial jewellery found in Delhi
After a lengthy scientific review, the United States last week decided to ban the use of endosulfan, an inexpensive organochlorine pesticide that builds up in the environment. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ruled that the compound
Sample Of Nullah Opening Into Satluj Tests Positive For High Uranium Content: German Lab I P Singh | TNN Faridkot: In the wake of discovery of high level of uranium and other heavy metals in hair samples of 80% of 149 neurologically-disabled children, samples of five children from worst-affected village …
He knew about an audit of Bhopal plant, which identified 30 hazards Warren Anderson was the chairman and chief executive of Union Carbide Corporation, once one of the largest chemical polymer companies in the United States. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1921 to Swedish immigrant parents. At …
Higher courts will take their own time to deliver justice Even though 25 years have already elapsed after the Bhopal gas tragedy, which claimed over 10,000 lives and left around five lakh affected, yesterday
Yesterday, the Bhopal Chief Judicial Magistrate Tiwari pronounced his judgment on the Bhopal gas disaster that took place in 1984. He pronounced all seven accused guilty as charged of causing the world
