<p>Pesticide industry body loses defamation case against CSE, twice. 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.
<p> <meta http-equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <title></title> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="OpenOffice.org 3.1 (Unix)"> <style type="text/css"> <!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> </style> </meta> </meta> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal;">As India holds on to endosulfan ban and the Union environment ministry proposes an <a href="http://www.downtoearth.org.in/node/2238"><strong> expert committee</strong></a> to study its ill-effects, read this background note by CSE about global and Indian evidence on its toxicity and dangers to human health.</p> <p> </p>
<p>The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) released the shocking results of its laboratory analysis on samples brought from Padre village of Enmakaje Gram Panchayat in Kasaragod district, Kerala, where a lot of unusual diseases related to the central nervous system have been reported, especially among children.
