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Carbon Green to rid surface pesticides and formalin in fruits, vegetables
Staff Correspondence | Updated at 01:16am on September 15, 2018
Life and Health Limited, an organisation that promoted healthy lifestyle, on Friday launched a product by the name of Carbon Green to remove surface residue...
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Concerns about health, environment hazards of pesticides
| Updated at 12:44am on September 14, 2018
Rubhana Raqib, head of ICDDR,B laboratory of immunobiology, nutrition and toxicology The government is allowing pesticide use to increase crop production to manage population growth...
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Hazardous pesticides in wide use in Bangladesh
Emran Hossain | Updated at 12:32am on September 14, 2018
Hundreds of products of nearly a hundred pesticides, considered dangerous by different international agencies, including the United Nation’s World Health Organisation, are in wide use...
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Pesticide residues pose serious threat to human health
| Updated at 12:27am on September 14, 2018
The effects of residues of pesticides being indiscriminately used in Bangladesh for crop production became a cause of serious human health concern, noted agriculture scientist...
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Pesticide-treated dried fish exposes consumers to serious health risks in Bangladesh
Emran Hossain | Updated at 12:24am on September 14, 2018
Nearly a half of dried fish samples tested at the laboratory of Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute in the first six months of this year were...
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Matia for using bio-pesticides to ensure safe food
Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha . Dhaka | Updated at 12:05am on May 30, 2018
Agriculture minister Begum Matia Chowdhury on Tuesday stressed the need for using bio-pesticide through reducing dependency on different chemical pesticides in agricultural production to ensure...
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Unchecked use of pesticide in reserve forest disconcerting
| Updated at 12:05am on April 12, 2018
INCREASED air and water pollution risks the biodiversity of the country....
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Toxic pesticides threaten wildlife in Rema-Kalenga Reserve Forest
Sadiqur Rahman . back from Habiganj | Updated at 12:50am on April 11, 2018
Indiscriminate use of toxic pesticides on crop fields inside the Rema-Kalenga Reserve Forest in Habiganj, the most diversified wildlife habitat in Bangladesh, poses threat to...
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Bayer-Monsanto merger is bad news for planet
by Ellen Brown | Updated at 12:05am on April 06, 2018
BAYER and Monsanto have a long history of collusion to poison the ecosystem for profit...
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Cabinet okays tougher pesticide law
United News of Bangladesh . Dhaka | Updated at 01:07am on October 31, 2017
Cabinet on Monday approved a proposed pesticide law suggesting tougher punitive actions against storing and marketing of adulterated bug killers meant for crop protection....