Pesticide Residues 
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Subterranean leak
25 years after the gas leak, another tragedy is unfolding in Bhopal reveals this latest study by Centre for Science & Environment. This study based on CSE's Pollution Monitoring Laboratory tests found that water and soil in & around the Union Carbide factory are loaded with pesticides.
- Date:
- Dec 2009
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- Down to Earth Vol: 18 Issue: 14
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Registration necessary for aqua farms
The Government of India has ordered strict implementation of registration of aquaculture farms with the Coastal Aquaculture Authority of India (CAAI) or any other designated agency. Without registration, the produce from the farm cannot be sold in the market.
- Date:
- 02/12/2009
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- Business Standard (New Delhi)
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Continuing nightmare in Bhopal: CSE laboratory tests soil, water samples from Union Carbide
For more than 25 years, the Union Carbide (UCIL) factory has been contaminating the land and water of Bhopal. Latest tests show that groundwater in areas even three km away from the factory contains almost 40 times more pesticides than Indian standards.
- Date:
- Dec 2009
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- Centre for Science and Environment
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AAU gets hi-tech equipment to monitor pesticide residue in food
Prashant Rupera | TNN
Vadodara/Anand: Anand Agriculture University’s (AAU) residue laboratory is now equipped with hitech equipment to monitor pesticide residue in food items.
Like 31 other labs across the country, AAU’s lab since 2006 has been monitoring level of pesticides in various food items under a national-level project.
- Date:
- 05/11/2009
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- Times Of India (Ahmedabad)
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Drinking-water herbicide exposure in Indiana and prevalence of small-for-gestational-age and preterm delivery
Atrazine and other corn herbicides are routinely detected in drinking water. Two studies on potential association of atrazine with small-for-gestational-age (SGA) and preterm birth prevalence found inconsistent results. Moreover, these studies did not control for individual-level potential confounders.
- Date:
- Oct 2009
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- Environmental Health Perspectives Vol: 117 Issue: 10 pp: 1619-1624
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Malaria control insecticide residues in breast milk: The need to consider infant health risks
In many parts of the world, deliberate indoor residual spraying (IRS) of dwellings with insecticides to control malaria transmission remains the only viable option, thereby unintentionally but inevitably also causing exposure to inhabitants.
- Date:
- Oct 2009
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- Environmental Health Perspectives Vol: 117 Issue: 10 pp: 1477-1480
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A can of worms
Book>> Brands Under Fire • edited by Ivan Arthur and Kurien Mathews • Penguin Books • Price Rs 499 In August 2003, the ceos of Coke and Pepsi addressed a joint press conference. This unlikely meeting of minds was forced upon by an emergency. Centre for Science and Environment, a non-profit in Delhi has exposed dangerous levels of pesticides in soft drinks.
- Date:
- 14/08/2009
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- Down to Earth Vol: 18 Issue: 20090815 pp: 6
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Why the debate over organic food is redundant
Organic farming doesn't provide more nutritional food and it may not even be more sustainable – but could the whole debate about organic versus non-organic be missing the point?
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- Aug 2009
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- New Scientist Issue: 2720 pp: 10
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Groundwater information system for farmers & policy makers of Punjab
The information system has detailed groundwater level data, groundwater quality with regard to major ions and pesticide residues information. The Project has been supported as a
pilot project in the country by NRDMS, Department of Science and Technology to provide the web site at all village Knowledge Centers in the districts. Agriculturally developed and
- Date:
- Aug 2009
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- National Geophysical Research Institute
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Organic food: FSA study leaves bad taste in the mouth
The findings from the FSA's organic food review have added little to our knowledge but left consumers short-changed on real benefits of organic food.
- Date:
- Aug 2009
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- Ecologist
