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Foul drink
Issue Date: May 15, 2006
Food safety authorities in South Korea called on beverage makers to withdraw vitamin- c enriched drinks that were found to contain the carcinogen benzene. The Korea Food and Drug Administration (fda) said that they had detected benzene in 27 out of 30 vitamin c-enriched drinks that were on sale in the country.
Wine whine
Issue Date: May 15, 2006
Check your Cola
Issue Date: Apr 15, 2006
Soft drinks are in a pollution tangle again. Eight of the 16 soft drink plants surveyed by the Central Pollution Control Board (cpcb) had a cadmium concentration more than 50 mg/kg of sludge -- in the rest it ranged between five to 50 mg/kg.
Soft drink ban proposed
Issue Date: Mar 31, 2006
The Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration (fda) has recommended a ban on sale of soft drinks in government schools on the basis of a study that showed they contained pesticides. However, the state government is yet to take a decision on the fda recommendation, says an official spokesperson. "We received the fda report in the last week of February and have sent it to health department for their perusal, an official in the school education department said.
Confer this
Issue Date: Mar 15, 2006
After sullying its image by pumping groundwater from Indian villages, Coca-Cola went in for a public relations exercise: it co-sponsored the 2nd International Groundwater conference (igc), 2006. The School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University , played the role of 'scientific establishment' in support.
Leh berry fields forever
Issue Date: Jan 31, 2006
In August 2004, two officials of Ladakh Foods Limited (lfl), a Leh-based company processing seabuckthorn (Leh berry) were charged with embezzling Rs 3 crores (see 'Exposed,' Down To Earth, August 31, 2004). The scam put a spanner in the works of lfl, a public-limited company set up in 2002 to accelerate the economic growth of farmers in Ladakh.
Give up, they shall not
Issue Date: Jan 31, 2006
The Bitter Drink directed and produced by P Baburaj and C Saratchandran 26 minutes
A police contingent standing guard outside the Coca Cola factory in Plachimada in Kerala's Perumatty panchayat while protesters march past raising slogans against the Cola giant is one of the lingering shots of this film under review. It's an apt cinematic metaphor to depict the marginalised ranged against the power of the state-backed transnational.
In short
Issue Date: Jan 15, 2006
netting laws flouted: Italian fisherfolk continue to flout the European ban on use of driftnets. A recent report points to loopholes in the Italian law as one the main reasons for this. The report demanded urgent action to stop illegal fishing of swordfish and tuna, and to protect cetaceans like whales and dolphins from being trapped and killed by driftnets.
Only inaction
Issue Date: Dec 31, 2005
