Food Contamination
CSE 's Round Table on Mercury Pollution in Sonbhadra
Pollution in Sonbhadra area is not new and has been talked about for many years but no action has been taken to check the pollution. This has led to long term health impacts which have now started to show up in the population of the region. CSE took up a study to look at these health impacts and to investigate the possible causes.
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- Community Support
- Story
- Blood
- Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB)
- Coal
- CSE Study
- Diabetes
- Down to earth
- Drinking Water
- Food Contamination
- Gas Chromatograph
- Health
- Health Effects
- Heart Diseases
- Heavy Metals
- India
- Indian Institute of Toxicology Research (IITR)
- Industrial Pollution
- Land Pollution
- Madhya Pradesh
- Mercury
- Mining
- Mining Waste
- Respiratory Diseases
- Singrauli
- Sonbhadra
- Toxicity Studies
- Toxins
- Tuberculosis
- Uttar Pradesh
- Water Pollution
When business rules our kitchens
Once again there is a food safety scare. A deadly strain of E coli bacterium has hit Germany, where it has taken the lives of 25 people and affected another 2,300 till date. German food inspectors on the trail of the source of contamination have as yet made two errors—blaming Spanish cucumbers and then organic bean sprouts—but no breakthrough.
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- Blogs
- Agriculture
- Avian Flu
- China
- E coli
- Fast Foods
- Food Contamination
- Food Policy
- Food Process Industry
- Food Safety
- Food Standards
- Germany
- Health
- Health Effects
- India
- Lifestyles
- melanine
- organic bean sprouts
- pork
- Poultry
- salmonella
- Spanish cucumbers
- Sunita Narain
- Swine Flu
- United States Of America (US)
What’s in your Honey?
Ayurveda prescribes it for a range of ailments. People eat it for rejuvenation and boosting immunity. An Indian homemaker’s kitchen shelf is incomplete without a jar of this amber liquid.
Farmers concoct pesticides out of colas
There is never any end to learning. And so, surprises. We have learnt, over 20 years, that environmental governance in India is lackadaisical.
Control your food. It is your business
Our control over our food and our health requires inventive institutional reordering and new ideas about the way food regulations work.
The battle for control of our bodies
They say you are what you eat. But do we know what we are eating? Do we know who is cooking and serving us the food we take to our kitchens and then into our bodies?
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