The Supreme Court has slammed the Kerala government for State\u2019s inaction in providing relief to the Endosulfan pesticide exposure victims.<\/span><\/p>\n This also amounts to a breach of the Supreme Court\u2019s 2017 judgment which had ordered the State to pay \u20b95 lakh each to the victims in three months.<\/span><\/p>\n Endosulfan <\/span>is a widely-banned pesticide with hazardous effects on human genetic and endocrine systems.<\/span><\/p>\n Use of Endosulfan:<\/b> Sprayed on crops like cotton, cashew, fruits, tea, paddy, tobacco etc. for control of pests such as whiteflies, aphids, beetles, worms etc.<\/span><\/p>\n Environment: <\/b>Endosulfan in the environment gets accumulated in food chains leading to higher doses and causing problems. If Endosulfan is released into water, it is expected to absorb into the sediment and may bioconcentrate in aquatic organisms.<\/span><\/p>\n Humans And Animals: <\/b>The endosulfan ingestion results in diseases ranging from physical deformities, cancer, birth disorders and damage to the brain and nervous system.<\/span><\/p>\n The Supreme Court in India has banned the manufacture, sale, use, and export of endosulfan throughout the country, citing its harmful health effects in 2011.<\/span><\/p>\n It is also listed under the Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n The use of endosulfan is also banned by Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n Source:<\/b> The post is based on the article<\/span> \u201c<\/b>Kerala did virtually nothing for Endosulfan victims for 5 years: SC<\/b>\u201d<\/b> published<\/span> in<\/span> The Hindu<\/b> on <\/span>17th May 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? The Supreme Court has slammed the Kerala government for State\u2019s inaction in providing relief to the Endosulfan pesticide exposure victims. This also amounts to a breach of the Supreme Court\u2019s 2017 judgment which had ordered the State to pay \u20b95 lakh each to the victims in three months. What is Endosulfan?… Continue reading Kerala did virtually nothing for Endosulfan victims for 5 years: SC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-185164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704927531},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is Endosulfan?<\/b><\/h5>\n
Effects of Endosulfan<\/b><\/h5>\n
Ban on Endosulfan<\/b><\/h5>\n