Savvy Soumya Misra

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Research Coordinator at Oxfam India

Health Effects India Agriculture Farmers Pesticide Industry Kerala Food Safety And … Endosulfan Supreme Court Compensation

Health

Tracking decades-long endosulfan tragedy in Kerala

Down To Earth takes a look at one of the worst and longest-running pesticide poisoning episodes in India and how it culminated with the Supreme …

Governance

Last mile smile

Communities are coming together in Jharkhand to create vigilance mechanisms to enforce food entitlement programmes

Saving for rainy days

People of West Bengal’s Sunderbans region are setting up grain banks to safeguard against food crisis

A search for a lost friend

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Centre favours manufacture of endosulfan

Says disposal will cost Rs 210 crore while using existing raw material stock to manufacture the pesticide will increase crop production

No antibiotics to be allowed in honey

Food safety authority approves scientific panel's recommendations for regulating honey quality

Supreme Court notice to food authority on checking supply of adulterated milk

Petition seeks comprehensive policy on production, supply and sale of healthy, hygienic and natural milk

Junk food in schools: high court asks FSSAI to frame rules

Food standards authority says it has invited proposals for developing guidelines for making available quality food in school canteens

Most Indians drinking adulterated milk, finds FSSAI survey

70 per cent milk samples collected across the country by food safety authority did not conform to standards

Supreme Court allows endosulfan export

Exports to be routed through public sector undertaking Hindustan Insecticides and two other companies

Home ministry delayed Plachimada bill

RTI response reveals why bill meant to secure compensation from Coca-Cola has not received president’s assent till now

Push to strengthen Basel Convention regional centres

Centres in turn will assist in ratifying ban on toxic exports from rich nations to the poor

Nations discuss ban on toxic exports

Ban Amendment seeks to curb export of hazardous waste by rich countries to the poor, but has not been brought into force since 1994

Basel Convention: Tenth Conference of Parties begins Monday

Meeting may end up defeating the very purpose of the international treaty on hazardous waste says SAVVY SOUMYA MISRA

Denmark imposes fat tax

The surcharge will be levied on food items containing more than 2.3 per cent saturated fat.

Centre returns Plachimada tribunal bill

Seeks explanation from Kerala government after Coca-Cola questions validity of the bill under its consideration

Can endosulfan be exported?

Supreme Court asks panel to explore possibilities of disposing of the pesticide

SC extends endosulfan ban

Pesticide makers claim inbreeding, not endosulfan, causing health problems in Kasaragod

Cap energy drinks

CSE laboratory tests show energy drinks contain excess caffeine; their market grows without checks

Contest for pesticide

Demand for state control as Pesticides Management Bill is set to be tabled in Parliament

Endosulfan ban to continue

Supreme Court appointed committee fails to submit interim report

FSSAI's scientific panel reconstituted

But members of the panel now designated as “independent consultants” were a part of the panel as representatives of the industry till …

Hard time for honeybees

Entomologist May Berenbaum of University of Illinois in USA has inspired a character in TV series, X-Files. The winner of this year’s Tyler …

Andhra to promote chemical free cultivation

State's rural development and agriculture departments to work together to encourage organic farming

Bombay HC for phthalates standards in toys

CSE study showed over 45 per cent toys in India have more than acceptable limits of the chemical

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