Codex adopts stricter food safety standards

The international food standards body has adopted stringent laws on pesticides in food and arsenic residue in rice 

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Pesticide ban lands Kerala in court

Cardamom planters, pesticide makers against the ban

The dirty dozens

‘PESTICIDES’ IN DRUGS

Sharad Pawar’s provision for protecting test data in the Pesticides Bill could spill over into trade agreements and hit the drugs industry, too

Pesticide trap

India extensively uses pesticides banned globally, show RTI responses  

Memories of Agent Orange

Wheels of pollution

No one is tracking the substantial amount of lead that escapes into the environment from car tyres

Centre wants to ban a host of pesticides: Here’s why

Centre proposes banning monocrotophos, methomyl and carbofuran, three Class I pesticides associated with high levels of toxicity that resulted in …

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Contaminating millets

There is disquiet over government scheme to wean traditional millet farmers on chemical inputs

Back to the future

Pesticide that killed Karnataka devotees has a sordid record in India

Monocrotophos has killed farmers in Maharashtra and school children in Bihar in this decade 

Food production experts call for more “quality and indigeneity” in agriculture

The remarks were made at a two-day event in Delhi to discuss how food systems can best be transformed in line with the 2030 Agenda for …

India bans 18 pesticides, has many more to go

The ban is delayed and addresses only a part of the problem of toxic pesticides in India

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

Policies must be aimed at building capacity of soils, not promoting agrochemicals: experts

Scientists and practitioners deliberate on how to reverse soil degradation by taking cognizance of principal causes and policy gaps

Government agencies, companies must be accountable for peddling harmful chemicals

The Supreme Court's order to compensate endosulfan victims within three months is a welcome move, but India still needs to strengthen its …

Kerala gets cautious

Plans to ban extremely and moderately hazardous pesticides in cardamom district, Idukki

Pollution pays

Whenever the issue of how to end pollution is raised, it hits a block: technology. Take the case of air pollution: among other things, the issue …

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The pesticide is the point

New safety norms for toys

Meant to check use of toxic phthalates

Pesticides in our food

There is never any end to learning. And so, surprises. We have learnt, over 20 years, that environmental governance in India is lackadaisical. …