Reply on behalf of the Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI) in response to the National Green Tribunal (NGT) order September 12, 2024. The matter related to the news item titled "People are breathing in cancer-causing chemicals in their cars study find" appearing in NDTV.com dated May 8, 2024. ARAI …
sterilising produce: A new method to sterilise fruits and vegetables has been developed, which literally sucks life out of germs. It could replace ozone-depleting chemicals, like methyl bromide, which are currently used to sterilise fresh produce. Called metabolic stress disinfection, the technique was developed by Manuel Lagunas-Solar and his team …
one child died and another had his leg amputated after exposure to toxic industrial waste dumped on a plot in Karachi, Pakistan. Two other children also sustained serious burn injuries in the incident that occurred in March. The plot is located in Abidabad in Sindh Industrial Trading Estate (site). Following …
Food safety authorities in South Korea called on beverage makers to withdraw vitamin- c enriched drinks that were found to contain the carcinogen benzene. The Korea Food and Drug Administration (fda) said that they had detected benzene in 27 out of 30 vitamin c-enriched drinks that were on sale in …
toxic pool: The Local Area Environment Committee (LAEC) recently termed the Eloor and Edayar industrial belt in Kochi, Kerala, a "toxic hot spot' filled with heavy metals and pesticides. LAECrecently submitted an environmental audit report to the Supreme Court Monitoring Committee. It found the presence of heavy metals from samples …
edibleoils may have a use outside the kitchen, too. A New Zealand scientist claims cooking oils like sunflower oil can replace the volatile, toxic solvents used to prepare antibiotics such as penicillin and several other industrially significant plant-based products. Currently, penicillin is produced mainly by submerged aerobic fermentation using butyl …
Armies of venomous cane toads (Bufos marinus) threaten to overrun large parts of Australia, reports a recent study in the science journal, Nature (Volume 439, 707 A, February 2006). Scientists of the University of Sydney, who conducted this study, say that the species
LAND is equal to real estate in Mumbai. Any land, even when poisoned. In Dahisar, Mumbai's northernmost suburb, it is construction boom time, even by Mumbai's dizzying real estate standards. Sites for large residential and commercial complexes are selling sooner than you can say buy. The USP: proximity to both …
A recent study conducted by Basel Action Network (ban), a us -based lobby group, found that around 500 containers packed with old computers, televisions and mobile phones were arriving every month in Lagos, Nigeria. These electronics come for repair and re-use but an estimated 75 per cent of it gets …
function table() { var popurl="image/20051130/24-table.jpg" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=200, height=290, scrollbars=yes") } Sweets foiled by silver beware, the next time you consume sweets coated in silver foil: the decoration is a source of harmful metals. While the amount of the foil ingested through sweets is very small, it still is a health threat. …
Underneath the sleepy suburbs of Orange, New Jersey, usa, lies a unique site in the history of labour rights and the understanding of radioactive materials. For it was in a factory here in the 1920s that almost hundred young women were slowly poisoned to death with radium. The ensuing case …
researchers at University of Delhi's South Campus have developed a new technique that uses microbes to detect toxic metals and metallic compounds in industrial effluents. The process uses a dead bacterium's ability to give off signature colour when certain metals or their compounds come into contact with it. The team …
Mother's milk should be pristine. After all that's the one food that provides newborns with all the nutrients and benefits their growing bodies require. Nutrition experts recommend that babies be breast fed for at least the first six months after birth. Organisations such as the United Nation's Children's Emergency Fund …
the Central Pollution Control Board (cpcb) recently declared Chhattisgarh's capital Raipur as the country's most polluted city. Union minister of environment and forests A Raja presented a report in parliament based on a study on the presence of Suspended Particulate Matter (spm) in the air in 52 cities; Raipur ranked …
It is official now: the us Environment Protection Agency (epa) doesn't do much. And the admission has come from the Government Accountability Office (gao), the us Congress' investigative agency. A recent gao report says the epa hasn't collected data on the risks of tens of thousands of toxic chemicals introduced …
Global chemicals major Dow Chemicals Company got a shot in the arm with a ruling of the Michigan Supreme Court on July 13, 2005. A lawsuit filed by residents of areas along the Tittabawassee river near Dow's plant, where high levels of dioxins have been found, demanded a medical monitoring …
Agent Orange in Canada: A class action lawsuit has been filed in Ottawa, Canada, by people who claim they were exposed to Agent Orange and other chemicals that were tested in the 1960s at a Canadian Forces base in New Brunswick. The petitioners say they suffered serious health problems due …
The National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, Nagpur, had predicted that groundwater around the Union Carbide factory site would be contaminated by 2007. But as far back as the early 1990's, studies showed that potable water had already been contaminated by toxic factory wastes. When G Thyagarajan, chairperson, s upreme Court …
theEuropean Parliament has permanently banned the use of six phthalates used for making toys following health concerns. The unanimous decision was taken in Brussels, Belgium on July 5. The decision comes as a reaffirmation of a temporary ban placed in Europe in 1999 on the use of this group of …
a herbicide, Roundup, based on the chemical glyphosate, is being promoted by multinationals as a solution to the problem of toxicity from pesticides. But a study by French scientists published in Environmental Health Perspectives (Vol 113, No 6, June 2005), shows both Roundup and glyphosate can be toxic to human …
