EMFWA takes Karnataka to court | February 2011
The Endosulfan Manufactures and Formulators Welfare Association (EMFWA) have challenged the Karnataka ban on endosulfan in the Karnataka High Court. They pesticide manufacturers have said that the ban was 'unscientific' as there are no studies done in the state to prove that endosulfan was the cause of the health conditions of the people in the affected villages.
Centre to study endosulfan effect | December 2010
The Union environment ministry has proposed a five member expert committee to study the ill-effects of endosulfan. Union minister of state for environment, Jairam Ramesh, announced the panel after meeting Kerala forest minister Benoy Viswam on November 1.
Venome is spreading |December 2010
Endosulfan is claiming new victims, though a state government survey puts the total number of affected at just a little over 2,000 people in 11 gram panchayats of Kasaragod.
India holds on to Endosulfan | October 2010
At the sixth meeting of Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee (POPRC) to the Stockholm Convention (Geneva Oct 11-15), India once again opposed a global ban on the manufacture, use, import and export of endosulfan. Of the 29 members in the review committee, 24 supported the ban and four (Germany, Ghana, Nigeria and China) abstained.
Background note endosulfan: Global and Indian evidence about toxicity and dangers to human health | July, 2010
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announces that endosulfan would be eliminated in the United States. The decision was taken following a risk assessment and benefit evaluation over years with input from the public and the stakeholders.
Endosulfan’s Exit: U.S. EPA Pesticide Review Leads to a Ban | June, 2010
After a lengthy scientific review,the United States last week decided to ban the use of endosulfan, an inexpensive organochlorine pesticide that builds up in the environment. The U.S. Environmental ProtectionAgency (EPA) ruled that the compound—which has a variety of uses from Florida’s tomato crops to California’s cotton—should be phased out on a schedule to be negotiated with the manufacturer.
Endosulfan poisoning in Padre village: Industry's dirty tactics | December 2008
The Crop Care Federation of India (CCFI), a pesticide industry body, has twice lost the defamation case it filed against Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi. CCFI had been pursuing the case against a study done by CSE highlighting the endosulfan poisoning of residents of Padre village in Kasaragod district, Kerala
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