75% cultivable land toxin-hit: Experts
About 75 per cent of the cultivable land in the country has been adversely affected by excessive use of chemical fertilisers and pesticides. Commissioner in the Union Ministry of Agriculture Dr JS Sandhu
Pesticides And Toxins
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Pesticide levels 'excessive' in a third of Guangzhou vegetables: study
Pesticide levels that exceeded national safety limits were found in a third of vegetable samples taken from Guangzhou markets in a new study by the environmental group Greenpeace. One sample of cowpeas,
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State puts limits on a pesticide used for strawberries, other crops
California puts limits on tear gas-like pesticide chloropicrin used for strawberries and other crops California farmers must restrict their use of a tear gas-like pesticide applied to strawberries and
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Low-dose exposure to bisphenol A and replacement bisphenol S induces precocious hypothalamic neurogenesis in embryonic zebrafish
Here we demonstrate that bisphenol A (BPA) exposure during a time point analogous to the second trimester in humans has real and measurable effects on brain development and behavior. Furthermore, our study
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Report: transatlantic trade agreement could increase toxic pesticide use
NGO warns that regulations for harmful pesticides would be weakened by policy proposed in a transatlantic trade agreement International trade agreement proposals could roll back protections from harmful
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Lowest common denominator: EU-US trade deal threatens to lower standards of protection from toxic pesticides
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.
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Pesticide on your plate
Vegetables are the noble folk of food world, loved equally by doctors and grandmothers. Vegetarians live off them and meat-eaters are told to live off them. But in Delhi, under every crunchy leaf of radish
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Assessment of heavy metal contamination from municipal solid waste open dumping sites in Bangladesh
Co-disposal of the household orginated hazardous materials with municipal solid waste (MSW) into dumping sites is the usual practice in Bangladesh. In this paper, characterization of heavy metals in MSW
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Insecticide menace: Committee pins blame on farmers
Lannate problem has persisted since several years: Agri officials. Lack of adequate precautionary methods, while spraying Lannate Insecticide is the cause of farmers taking ill in parts of Hunsur taluk,
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The Insecticides (Second Amendment) Rules, 2014
The following draft rules further to amend the Insecticides Rules, 1971, which the Central Government proposes to make in exercise of the powers conferred by section 36 of the Insecticides Act, 1968 (46