Report of the Joint Meeting of the FAO panel of experts on pesticide residues in food and the environment and the WHO core assessment group on pesticide residues held at Geneva, Switzerland from 16-25 Sep 2009.
Food and Drugs inspectors visited the St Teresa of Jesus High School, Chaudi-Canacona on Friday morning to inspect the meals supplied by the contractor, accused of preparing contaminated meals to the school on Tuesday.
The FDA inspectors also checked the school surroundings, before making a second visit to the kitchen of the self-help group that prepared the meals.
Education Minister Babush Monserate on Thursday sought details from the three Assistant District Education Inspectors (ADEI) of Canacona in connection with the contaminated mid-day meals at a school in Canacona, even as Food and Drugs officials raided the kitchen of the self-help group that prepared the meals
This paper describes how achieving food sovereignty will entail a fundamental shift away from the industrial and neo-liberal paradigm for food and agriculture towards: More direct democracy and greater citizen participation in framing policies for food
Mercury, specifically methylmercury (MeHg), has been shown to cause developmental and neurologic effects, with the severest effects being observed after catastrophic exposure to communities in Japan and Iraq [Bakir et al. 1973; Harada 1995; Kondo 2000; National Research Council (NRC) 2000].
NEW DELHI: A soft drink company has been fined Rs 1 lakh and directed to pay Rs 50,000 compensation to a doctor who suffered food poisoning and had to be hospitalised after consuming a cola that reportedly contained fungus.
Mormugao Police on Thursday arrested Sree Saraswati Mahila Mandal Chief Urmila Salgaokar, after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) confirmed that the mid-day meals supplied to Yuvak Sangh High School Headland Sada, Vasco, on August 8 was not fit for consumption.
In this paper, European food safety legislation is presented, and special attention is devoted to monitoring residues of veterinary drugs in foodstuffs of animal origin. After a short review of the state of the art of analytical methodology for antibiotic residue analysis, the paper focuses on validation of analytical methods, with Decision 657/2002/EC as reference document.
Shut water supply, lock guards people living in village Vadgaon Dadahari in Beed district of Maharashtra have been inhaling flyash-laden air for the past five years. The pollution is caused by the nearby Parli power plant that generates 690 MW power for the Maharashtra State Power Generation Company Limited. On July 19, when strong winds carried large quantities of flyash
