{"id":35889,"date":"2018-11-01T12:08:53","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T06:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=35889"},"modified":"2018-11-01T12:08:53","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T06:38:53","slug":"5-chemicals-banned-in-firecrackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/5-chemicals-banned-in-firecrackers\/","title":{"rendered":"5 chemicals banned in firecrackers:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/5-chemicals-banned-from-firecrackers\/article19399035.ece\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">5 chemicals banned in firecrackers<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Context<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Supreme Court prohibited the use of five chemicals, labelled as toxic by the <\/span><b>Central Pollution Control Board <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(CPCB) ahead of the festive seasons of Dussehra and Deepavali.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Judicial remark<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Bench of Justices Madan B. Lokur and Deepak Gupta gave the order, that no firecrackers manufactured by the respondents shall contain antimony, lithium, mercury, arsenic and lead in any form whatsoever.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The court asked the CPCB to clarify the use of strontium, another chemical branded toxic by the pollution body, in firecrackers. However, Manufacturers denied using strontium.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The court gave the CPCB time till 15<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> September to entail all detailed information on the environmental impact, especially air pollution, caused by firecrackers, private manufacturers.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Manufactures, on their defense, tried reasoning that firecrackers are not the only source of pollution.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Petroleum and Explosive Safety Organization <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(PESO) will be responsible to ensure compliance particularly in Sivakasi.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The order came after the court heard the submissions from officials of the CPCB and PESO, Firework Research and Development Centre at Sivakasi in Tamil Nadu<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5 chemicals banned in firecrackers: Context The Supreme Court prohibited the use of five chemicals, labelled as toxic by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) ahead of the festive seasons of Dussehra and Deepavali. Judicial remark A Bench of Justices Madan B. Lokur and Deepak Gupta gave the order, that no firecrackers manufactured by the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/5-chemicals-banned-in-firecrackers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">5 chemicals banned in firecrackers:<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":133,"cached_at":1612296666},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35889","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}