Argemone not the cause for dropsy
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15/12/1997
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Financial Express (New Delhi)
Scientists : Dissension over the cause for symptoms of dropsy in consumers of mustard oil in Delhi has started surfacing, with a senior scientist in Calcutta stating last weekend that argemone contamination may not be the likely cause. Pratap Chakraborty, head of the department of Food Technology and Bio Chemical Engineering at Jadavpur University has made the comments at the annual general meeting of the Eastern India Oil Industry and Trade Association .