Pesticide Residues

Crisis staved off

The memories of Belgium's 1999 dioxin crisis were revived with Germany shaken over feed grain contaminated by nitrofen, a cancer-causing chemical banned in the European Union (eu). Even though

Publication Date:

14/07/2002

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Food Contamination, Health Effects, Cancer, Pesticide Residues, Legislation, Germany, European Union (EU)

Industry

Every drop kills

Waterborne diseases are the biggest threat to children

Publication Date:

14/06/2002

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

11

Issue:

20020615

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0

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Environment, Air Pollution, Health Effects, Infant mortality, Asthma, Cancer, Urbanisation, Waste Incineration, Maternal Health, Child Health, Breast Feeding, Dioxin, Pesticide Residues, Industry, India, Pollution

Industry

Tropic of cancer

Childhood cancer rates in India are increasing by six per cent every year

Publication Date:

14/06/2002

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

11

Issue:

20020615

pp:

0

Tags:

Environment, Air Pollution, Health Effects, Infant mortality, Asthma, Cancer, Urbanisation, Waste Incineration, Maternal Health, Child Health, Breast Feeding, Dioxin, Pesticide Residues, Industry, India, Pollution

Industry

Junk life

Fast food and slow death

Publication Date:

14/06/2002

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

11

Issue:

20020615

pp:

0

Tags:

Environment, Air Pollution, Health Effects, Infant mortality, Asthma, Cancer, Urbanisation, Waste Incineration, Maternal Health, Child Health, Breast Feeding, Dioxin, Pesticide Residues, Industry, India, Pollution

Industry

Brain dead

When pencils and paints lead to lower IQ

Publication Date:

14/06/2002

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

11

Issue:

20020615

pp:

0

Tags:

Environment, Air Pollution, Health Effects, Infant mortality, Asthma, Cancer, Urbanisation, Waste Incineration, Maternal Health, Child Health, Breast Feeding, Dioxin, Pesticide Residues, Industry, India, Pollution

Industry

Children of a lesser god

Children don t have a voice. They can t lobby or fight governments. The initiative lies with India s medical establishment and the civil society

Publication Date:

14/06/2002

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

11

Issue:

20020615

pp:

0

Tags:

Environment, Air Pollution, Health Effects, Infant mortality, Asthma, Cancer, Urbanisation, Waste Incineration, Maternal Health, Child Health, Breast Feeding, Dioxin, Pesticide Residues, Industry, India, Pollution

Industry

Children are bearing the brunt of environmental degradation. Across the class divide, they are eating, drinking and breathing poison. And their special bodies make them most vulnerable to a host of diseases

Publication Date:

14/06/2002

Author(s): Pranay Lal, Sarita Bahl

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

11

Issue:

20020615

pp:

0

Tags:

Environment, Air Pollution, Health Effects, Infant mortality, Asthma, Cancer, Urbanisation, Waste Incineration, Maternal Health, Child Health, Breast Feeding, Dioxin, Pesticide Residues, Industry, India, Pollution

India

Toxici<i>tea</i> tangle

Safeguards have been erected to weed out the supplies of tea laden with high pesticide residue levels. But when governments use these benchmarks to camouflage protectionism, there"s trouble brewing

Publication Date:

14/04/2002

Author(s): R V Singh

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Tea, Health Effects, Trade, WTO, Hazardous Products, Pesticide Residues, Exports, Legislation, India, Darjiling

Air Pollution

No use pact

soon there will be no arsenic-based preservatives in the wood used to build decks and playground equipment in the US. Recently, the lumber industry reached an agreement that would end the use of

Publication Date:

14/03/2002

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Arsenic, Pesticide Residues, United States Of America (US)

India