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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....