no food adulteration: The Union ministry of health and family welfare has issued draft rules amending the
existing Prevention of Food Adulteration rules (1955). The draft, made public on August 14, is open for comments and objection for 60 days. The
rules lay down that each package of chewing tobacco would have a warning about its adverse effects. The limit for caffeine in carbonated water
has been reduced from 200 parts per million (ppm) to 145 ppm. The Central Committee for Food Standards were consulted before making the
changes.
dolphins threatened: Spain has asked authorities around the Mediterranean and adjoining seas for help in
monitoring an infection which threatens a protected species of dolphin, warning it may become an epidemic. Morbillivirus, a potentially fatal infection,
which causes measles in its human form, was found in dead striped dolphins--a protected species--washed up on beaches in Spain. Reports say
dozens of dolphins were found dead. The virus threatens to affect whales, including the pilot whales, reports said.
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