Pesticide Ban

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  Food Authority Denies Claims Of High Pesticide Residue In Spices As Baseless

  This comes amid the reports of the ban imposed by Hong Kong on some spice mixes of two leading Indian brands on the alleged presence of ethylene oxide in samples.

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  "Untrue, Lacks Evidence": MDH On Presence Of Ethylene Oxide In Its Spices

  MDH, a leading spice brand, on Saturday assured consumers that its products are 100 per cent safe and rejected the allegations of the presence of certain pesticides in some products by Hong Kong and Singapore food regulators.

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  After Singapore, Hong Kong Bans Sale Of MDH, Everest Spices

  Hong Kong has banned the sale of popular Indian spice brands MDH Pvt. and Everest Food Products Pvt. after the alleged detection of the carcinogenic pesticide ethylene oxide in several spice mixes.

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  Pesticides Helped Bring Modern Farming To India. One Tiny State Is Leading The Charge To Ban Them

  Fifteen years ago, the tiny Indian state of Sikkim launched a radical experiment: Its leaders decided to phase out pesticides on every farm in the state, a move without precedent in India - and probably the world.

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  Curry Mixed With Demonetisation And A Pinch Of Pesticide

  When the government outlawed 86 per cent of India's currency, burying his hope of selling land to pay off growing debts, Varda Balayya of Dharmaram village in Telangana killed himself and tried to poison his entire family by mixing pesticide in their chicken curry

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  California Tightens Rule On Popular Pesticide, Citing Health

  California will tighten rules on how much farmers can use a common pesticide - Telone

• Saudi Arabia bans import of Indian chili peppers

  Saudi Arabia, the fifth-largest importer of fresh vegetables from India, has slapped a ban on the import of Indian chili due to the presence of high pesticide residues in it.Confirming the news, Surinder Bhagat, second secretary of politics and commerce...

• How Safe are Fruits & Veggies Bought from Local Markets?

  Even after so much talk and research around public health and food, it's disappointing to see that food safety remains one of the issues that is often neglected.On April 30th, a plea has been filed in the Delhi High Court seeking an immediate ban on the...

• World Health Organisation had asked India to ban toxin that killed school children

  The pesticide that killed 23 schoolchildren in Bihar last week is a nerve poison banned by many countries because of what the World Health Organisation (WHO) describes as its "high acute toxicity".

• Supreme Court bans Endosulfan across country

  The Supreme Court has banned the production, sale and use of controversial pesticide Endosulfan in the country for the next eight weeks, holding that human life is more important than anything else."Keeping in mind various judgements of this court under Article 21 (right to life and liberty) of the Constitution and particularly keeping in mind the ...

• Supreme Court bans manufacture, use of endosulfan

  The Supreme Court today banned the manufacture and use of pesticide Endosulfan across India. An expert panel headed by the Director General of Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) will examine the ill effects of the pesticide on human beings and the eco system and will submit a preliminary report to the apex court within eight weeks.The court ...

• Endosulfan ban: Achuthanandan rallies support from Chief Ministers

  Seeking to widen his government's campaign against Endosulfan, Kerala Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan has written to his counterparts in other states requesting them to bring combined pressure on the Centre to impose a nationwide ban on the pesticide.Ahead of a Kerala 'hartal' on Friday called by ruling CPM-led LDF on the Endosulfan issue, Achutha...

• Govt not for ban on Endosulfan?

  Kasaragod in north Kerala is home to thousands of people with severe neurological and congenital deformities. Years of exposure to endosulfan, aerially sprayed on cashew plantations is said to be the reason. Those demanding a countrywide ban on the pesticide ask if this is not enough proof for India to endorse a global ban on endosulfan at an inter...

• More Indian states ban colas

  Two southern Indian states banned the sale of soft drinks after an environmental group said it had found pesticides in the global giants' products.

• Gujarat and Rajasthan ban colas from schools

  Aerated drinks have been banned from hundreds of state school and college canteens in Gujarat after pesticides were found in them.