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Around 51 agricultural foods are contaminated with pesticide residues and of these, 20 per cent has pesticide residues more than the maximum residue limit in India.
Around 51 agricultural foods are contaminated with pesticide residues and of these, 20 per cent has pesticide residues more than the maximum residue limit in India.
India produces 85,000 tonnes of pesticides every year.
The pesticide endosulfan was recently banned by the government, but many other chemical pesticides continue to be used for a better, higher and quicker yield, as they prevent crops from being destroyed by pests.
Dr Padmaja Rambabu of the food and drug toxicology department and assistant director at the National Institute of Nutrition, says that as long as banned pesticides are produced by manufacturers and available in the market, farmers will continue to use them.
“Sometimes, pesticides like monocrotophos, which is banned for vegetables but recommended for other food crops, continues to be used even for vegetables in the absence of proper awareness among farmers and lack of fool-proof monitoring.”
This is what I alerted in, "What Chemical Residues on our food can do to us?"
at, http://prmadhura3.blogspot.com/2011/04/what-chemical-residues-on-our-food-can.html
at, http://prmadhura3.blogspot.com/2011/04/what-chemical-residues-on-our-food-can.html
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