India's fruit exports have surged by 47.5 per cent over the last five years, significantly benefiting from free trade agreements with the U...

India has raised concerns at the European Union’s decision to classify dye-making chemical anthraquinone as a pesticide, calling it a non-t...

Make it a habit to always choose seasonal fruit and vegetables as they are less likely to be exposed to too much chemical treatment.

The Arab nation has now made it mandatory for Indian exporters to furnish a pesticide residue analysis report for each consignment of shipm...

Maximum Residual Levels of pesticides in fruits and vegetables and other food products have been fixed under the Food Safety and Standards.

Tea Board said it has put in place a Plant Protection Code to check excess use of plant protection formulation in the country's tea plantat...

In vegetables, the ministry detected residues of non- approved pesticides such as acephate, bifenthrin, triazofos, acetamiprid, metalaxyl.

The need of the hour, she points out, is strict enforcement of rules and even stricter penalties for flouting norms.

Most of the vegetables showed relatively higher pesticide residue detection in rainy season followed by summer and winter seasons, it said.

Supreme Court has ordered periodic checks of all facilities manufacturing them as also major fruits and vegetable markets.

The bench disposed of a PIL filed by NGO CPIL demanding an independent expert or technical committee to evaluate the harmful effects of sof...

Favouring intensified monitoring of pesticides in Delhi, the expert committee set by HC suggested establishing special cell.

Encouraged by the exports of mangoes to Japan and the US, the state-owned Gujarat Agro.

The Jammu and Kashmir government today dedicated a lift irrigation project and a water supply scheme to people of Anantnag district.

The cola controversy has raised the question of how high is high when it comes to pesticide residue levels in other food items.

The Bureau of Indian Standards has come out with a draft standard which has been under discussion for the last three years but has still no...

The pesticide controversy has come back to haunt the cola giants, but does it have the power to hurt other food and beverage marketers as w...