Food safety and toxins

Work Overview

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The mission of the Pollution Monitoring Laboratory (PML) is to catalyze communities and NGOs to fight polluters across the country by supporting them with scientific proof and documentation of pollution and its health impacts.

It is an independent analytical, research and development laboratory that determines pesticide residues, conducts water quality analysis and ambient air monitoring.

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Updates

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New lab study on food by CSE exposes efforts to sabotage public health
Media Resource Centre

National Conclave on Food: What’s on our plate?
Food and Toxins

Antibiotic misuse in poultry farms leading to multi-drug resistant bacteria
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Food and Toxins

Genetically Modified Processed Food in India
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Antimicrobial Resistance Programme

Conserving the use of Critically Important Antimicrobials in Food-Producing Animals

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Date: August 27, 2021

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EML Laboratory Portal

Environment Monitoring Laboratory

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Press Releases

Junk foods must carry a ‘warning’ label: CSE

In a nation where one in every four Indians is overweight or obese, we have a right to know which food is bad, and how much of it is bad: CSE

FSSAI has not taken strong, decisive and public action on honey adulteration, says CSE

Presentations

Antibiotic Use and Waste Management in West Bengal Aquaculture By: Amit Khurana

Controlling Antibiotic Residues in Fish & Fishery Products By: MPEDA

Monitoring of Antibiotic Residues and Resistant Bacteria in waste Generated from Aquaculture By: MANAS KUMAR SINHA

Fact Sheets

Bhopal factsheets

National Action Plans on Antimicrobial Resistance: Need for Greater Focus on Environmental Spread

Safety Regulations

Publications
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Body Burden: Lifestyle Diseases

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Junk Food Busted

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Reports
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State of Organic and Natural Farming in India: Challenges and Possibilities

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Genetically Modified Processed Foods in India

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Burden of Packaged Food on School Children

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Report on Food Labelling, Claims and Advertisements

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Multimedia

video Food safety: Dangerously high levels of salt and fat in Indian junk food

A study by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has found dangerously high levels of salt and fat in Indian junk food. 

video How we tested the GM ingredients in packaged foods

Rajarshi Banerjee, laboratory head Centre for Science and Environment details the method GMOs in packaged foods.

video Findings of the study conducted by CSE on GM ingredients in foods

Amit Khurana, Programme Director Programme Director Food Safety & Toxins, Centre for Science and Environment, talks about the findings of the study on GM ingredients in foods.

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Down To Earth
DTE English

PACKED TO DISGUISE

The nutritional details on our food wrappers hide more than they reveal. India urgently needs regulations to warn consumers about harmful levels of salt, sugar and fat on product labels upfront

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वैश्विक तापमान से हुए जलवायु परिवर्तन ने वर्तमान और भविष्य की भयावह तस्वीर उकेर दी है

DTE-hindi
Gobar Times

TOILET
A clean toilet is still a distant dream for kids

Impacts

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Food and Toxins

Working on AMR in Zambia

Given the complete curb on international travel and the attention of partner agencies in Zambia on the Covid-19 situation, the programme was able to still engage with key stakeholders

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CSE In News


The environmental imperative

Delhi has bent pollution curve, annual level of particulate matter on decline: Report

In Some Good News For Delhi, The Toxic Pollution May Be Coming Down, PM2.5 On The Decline