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 Pesticides in our food [1]

There is never any end to learning. And so, surprises. We have learnt, over 20 years, that environmental governance in India is lackadaisical. Still, the extent of irresponsibility never fails to surprise.

Some months ago we did a study on pesticides in bottled water. We were really looking at pesticides in drinking water but research on municipal water supply was too difficult, so bottled water it was. We found pesticides. Where were they coming from? We found that the plants were using groundwater; the profile of pesticides in the bottles matched that in the groundwater. We understood more about the water use of these companies. Yet a question remained. Why did we find pesticides, and government not? So we looked at regulations and found that the science was about choosing the appropriate methodology of analysis. Government regulations were all about

Publication Date: 
30/12/2003
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Pesticides [3], Milk Products [4], Food Contamination [5], Bottled Water Industry [6], Groundwater [7], Water Treatment Technology [8], Trade [9], DDT [10], Malathion [11], Pesticide Residues [12], Legislation [13], Governance [14], India [15], Global [16], European Union (EU) [17]

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