 For 10 years, a doctor
struggled to understand it. Why were so many people — children in particular —
in his Kerala village suffering from disorders of the central nervous system? Cerebral
palsy, congenital anomalies and mental retardation, among other disorders.Then, one day in December 2000, he asked: Could it be the pesticide
endosulfan? The effects of this toxin on human body are quite similar to the maladies he
was seeing. The Plantation Corporation of Kerala has been spraying endosulfan for years in
its neighbouring cashew plantations.
CSE got samples from Kerala analysed at its recently set up
Environment Monitoring Laboratory. The amount of endosulfan was unbelievably high in all
the samples. Blood, milk, water, soil, food…
The amount of endosulfan in one woman’s blood is 900 times the limit set for
water
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You are
invited to a public meeting
5:00 pm
Wednesday, February 21
to release laboratory results showing how pesticides have
poisoned the human body and the environment in a Kerala village
Presentations by
Anil Agarwal, chairperson, CSE
Padma Vankar,
advisor to the CSE Environment Monitoring Laboratory
Shree Padre, environmental
journalist from Kerala
Mohana Kumar Y S,
doctor from
Padre village in Kerala
Venue
Centre for Science and Environment
 6-A Core, IV Floor
India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
RSVP: 608 1110 / 608 3394 / 608 6399 /
464 5334 email: asha@cseindia.org |
