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1,250 tonnes of toxic wheat from Oz seized [1]

Chennai: Customs has detained over 1,250 tonnes of wheat imported from Australia in 50 containers at Chennai port. The consignment was found to contain more than permissible levels of pesticide chloropyrifos.

Publication Date: 
25/03/2010
Times Of India (New Delhi) [2]
Tags:
Agriculture [3], Wheat [4], Pesticides And Toxins [5], Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI) [6], Tamil Nadu [7]

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