"Governments should try for 100 per cent pure water"

HANS JEURING is the chairperson of Codex Committee on Pesticides Residue (CCPR). It is responsible for establishing maximum limits for pesticide …

Just what is a ‘healthy diet’? A UN paper explains

New United Nations paper released ahead of Food Systems Summit makes critical points about food nutrition and safety

A vicious nexus

To ensure that inconvenient research is besmirched and killed, industries are invariably attacking the science and researchers

#FitnessChallenge: A life cycle of challenges I throw at PM Modi

Being conceived is like being punished to a slow death owing to environmental pollution that needs a reality check

In Karnataka, 258 cows may be culled to prevent spread of disease

Brucellosis, also known as ‘contagious abortion', is an infection transmitted from animals to humans

Red alert on Indian spices

Spice Board challenges US food department’s claims over salmonella contamination

Toxic metals in snails

Battle for beef

You may be drinking tiny pieces of plastic with bottled water

A study says that 93% of bottled water contains microplastics

Recycled food waste may be contaminated with pharma residues but mushroom cultivation may come to rescue

Biogas digestate from food waste had nearly as many pharmaceutical residues as digestate from sewage sludge, new study shows

Untangling India’s Bt cotton fraud

ICAR’s top research institutes and GEAC exposed in Bt cotton research scam

E coli outbreak in EU

India alerts ports that receive fruits, vegetables from Europe

Taste of toxicity

New study reiterates the adverse effects of chlorpyrifos pesticide

Crisis staved off

Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2021: How poor regulation threatens aquaculture

There are no regulations or institutional setup for freshwater aquaculture

Study sheds light on how salmonella bacteria infect plants

Researchers found that unlike other disease-causing bacteria, salmonella sneaks in through a tiny gap created when a lateral root …

Toxic harvest

Eating rice grown in arsenic-contaminated water can damage genes

Whale of a Problem

Whale meat contains mercury and PCBs, says a new study

Gold’s toxic legacy

Mines release arsenic, contaminate water and soil

In Short

Being egged on

No evidence of COVID-19 transmission through food, say scientists

Packaging of food is not a source of contamination, according to experts 

Your food might be growing in contaminated soil

Soil pollution poses a major risk to human health by impairing plant metabolism and making crops unsafe for consumption

US overhauls law on chemical safety; India should follow suit

As the US focuses on more stringent safety tests for chemicals, India needs to replicate a similar model to curb indiscriminate use of pesticides

Viral flight

Bird flu reported among wild migratory birds in China