73.75 litres condense to 10 kg, bulk either evaporated or leaked out
Raising environmental and health concerns, officials repacking endosulfan in fresh vessels have found that the pesticide has either leaked out or evaporated from a corroded barrel kept at the Plantation Corporation of Kerala’s (PCK) Cheemeni estate. It came to the notice of the officials of the Pollution Control Board, Hindustan Insecticide Ltd., medical team, and the taskforce appointed by the district administration when they started to repack the banned pesticide on day three of ‘Operation Blossom Spring’ at the PCK warehouse at Cheemeni,
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/endosulfan-gets-%E2%80%98makeover%E2%80%99-pck-estate
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/cs-narayanan-kutty
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/hindu-new-delhi
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/kasaragod-d
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/endosulfan
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/pesticides
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/health-effects
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/state-pollution-control-board-spcb-0
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/hindustan-insecticides
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/high-court
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/rehabilitation
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/hazardous-products
[13] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/pesticides-and-toxins
[14] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/kerala
