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Dirt bags or detergents?

Dirt bags or detergents?  researchers and the civil society members met representatives of the detergent industry on January 31 in New Delhi asking them to voluntarily reduce the environmentally damaging phosphates in their products. But the detergent industry refused to pay heed.

The research team, sponsored by the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute, constituting researchers from India and Canada, tried hard to convince the industry to self-regulate. But the gathered detergent experts used the bogey of