Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Hemant Kumar & Others Vs State of Himachal Pradesh & Others dated 13/05/2025. An application was received by the NGT filed by Hemant Kumar on behalf of all the villagers of Gram Panchayat Salani Katola, tehsil Nahan, district Sirmaur, Himachal …
PAN International list of highly hazardous pesticides. The number of active ingredients on the PAN HHP List changes over time. The reasons for changes are mainly changes in classifications made by organisations referred to in this list such as WHO, EU, EPA or IARC. In 2010, for example, more pesticides …
The thirteenth volume of the Report of the Committee on Doubling Farmers’ Income (DFI) examines the structural weaknesses and reforms needed in the agricultural system. The discussions in this volume range from recommending reforms in the land policy to declaring a farmer-citizen charter. The volume highlights how the assets, people …
The Jammu and Kashmir government has decided to constitute a State Pesticides Regulatory Authority to curb the use of spurious pesticides which cause harm to fruit production and its quality. The decision was taken at a high-level meeting of Horticulture and allied Departments held under the chairmanship of Minister for …
A new analysis exposes how the American and European pesticide industry is using ongoing EU-US trade negotiations to lower human health and environmental standards in order to increase trade in toxic pesticides. A new study by the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), Lowest Common Denominator: How the EU-US trade …
Stop Pesticide Poisonings depicts why a growing number of individuals and organisations no longer believe that training can achieve so called safe use of hazardous pesticides. Instead, many bodies call for a progressive ban of hazardous pesticides and support a systematic phase-in of agro-ecological approaches to produce food and fibre …
An investigation carried out by Greenpeace India has found residues of hazardous chemical pesticides in a majority of samples of the main brands of packaged tea produced and consumed in India. Over half of the samples contained pesticides that are ‘unapproved’ for use in tea cultivation or which were present …
Read the response of Centre for Science & Environment (CSE) to pesticide industry advertisement published in the guise of public interest appeal in a major national daily. CSE claims that Centre for Environment & Agrochemicals has made several scurrilous and baseless statements against it. The pesticide manufacturing industry and its …
Watch out for live reports from the Conference on food safety & environmental toxins being organised by Centre for Science and Environment from Feb 20-21, 2013 at New Delhi marking a decade of support to community and public policy by CSE's pollution monitoring lab.
Of the 234 pesticides registered by the Central Insecticides Board and Registered Committee 59 do not have set MRLs, shows this CSE study on the state of pesticide regulations in India from a food safety perspective in the light of recommendations made by the Joint Parliamentary Committee. The Joint Parliamentary …
A bill to be tabled in Parliament is set to re-ignite an old tussle between the Centre and states. The Pesticides Management Bill of 2008, which will be heard in the Monsoon Session, aims to replace grand old Insecticides Act of 1968. It will regulate a wider range of chemicals, …
Ankita Rai New Delhi: The issue of data protection over and above the WTO norms in Pesticide Management Bill 2008 has not got down well with the industry bodies. To tackle the menace of spurious pesticides and to regulate the pesticide market the Pesticide Management Bill 2008 was introduced. The …
Surinder Sud / New Delhi December 14, 2009, 0:37 IST The government plans to strengthen the regulatory framework for the pesticides sector by setting up a Central Pesticides Board and making registration mandatory for all new products. The proposed board will advise the government on all matters concerning regulation, manufacture, …
The Pesticides Act 1999 controls the use of pesticides in New South Wales. The Act aims to reduce the risks to human health, the environment, property, industry and trade from the use of pesticides. The Pesticides Regulation 1995 facilitates this by setting out requirements for pesticide record-keeping, training and the …
The recommendations in this document address pending decisions and petitions currently before federal agencies responsible for regulating pesticides and promoting alternatives, and offer suggestions for immediate directional shifts needed to develop America
This Regulation is the Pesticides Amendment (Notification of Proposed Use) Regulation 2008. The object of this Regulation is to amend the Pesticides Regulation 1995: to require a pest management technician to give notice of the proposed use of a pesticide before using a pesticide on land adjacent to certain sensitive …
In the EU, from September 2008 onwards, a new regulation comes into force which lays down revised rules for pesticide residues. This regulation covers all agricultural products intended for food or animal feed. MRLs for 315 fresh products are listed, but these MRLs also apply to the same products after …
EPA sued over endosulfan, bans carbofuran in the last week of July, a coalition of civil society groups filed a lawsuit against the us Environmental Protection Agency (epa) seeking to stop the use of endosulfan. Endosulfan is an organochlorin, part of the same family of chemicals as ddt, which the …
Use of pesticides in India has substantially increased in recent years. It is increasingly becoming an inevitable input in intensive agriculture systems, which have mainly been fuelled by changes in cropping pattern and practice. Survey results confirmed that there has been a widespread lack of awareness on pesticides and their …
Although most of the dangers from unregulated and indiscriminate use of pesticides were brought into focus as early as in the year 1958 when the Government of India appointed a Commission of enquiry to suggest Inter-alia remedial measures following a number of deaths in Kerela and Madras (Tamil Nadu) by …
