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Metals for food

Depleting groundwater sources compel farmers in Gujarat to use industrial effluents for irrigation

Arsenic food

Toxin detector

No need to use mice anymore

Cocooned in secrecy

Tainted milk

The arsenic affinity

Deadly mettle

Air, water and soil: all have varying amounts of toxic heavy metals. Gradually, they are entering the human body through the food chain. Down …

Suffering continues

Contaminated food

Toxin trial-blazer

Cost-effective and easy way to test aflatoxin contamination evolved

Clean diet

Food for taught

Should Karnataka expand the midday meal scheme without fine-tuning it?

No Entry

Nidhi Jamwal and Kushal P S Yadav, prosecuted as 'trespassers'

Edibility questioned

A lesson unlearnt

Belgium seems to pay little heed to the UK government's handling of the madcow disease

Don't eat tuna

Today's menu: dioxins

Belgium authorities found carcinogenic dioxins in food products. And they brushed the matter under the carpet. Now, Europe is facing an …

Arsenic eyes rice nutrients

The heavy metal can disrupt amino acid synthesis in the grain

Big size, bigger benefits

Brown rice of shorter size accumulates more arsenic

Poisoned again

The death of 18 elephants in Assam revives the debate over human-animal conflict once more

Fishy situation

Fish oil supplements in Europe extensively contaminated by dioxins

Sri Lanka regulates GM food

Back like a bad penny

115 nations, 12 dirty chemicals and a compromise that leaves DDT free to further pollutethe foodchain

A pest gene can help fight pesticide contamination in environment: study

A group of reseachers from Pune have isolated an enzyme from a pest which can be clean up pesticide residues from food and environment