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Acceptable daily intake (ADI) is commonly defined as the amount of a chemical to which a person can be exposed on a daily basis over an extended period of time (usually a lifetime) without suffering any deleterious effect.
Use of cosmetic products is increasing rapidly in India and various chemicals including the heavy metals are used in the cosmetics which pose health risk to consumers. The present study was conducted to determine heavy metals - lead, cadmium, chromium and nickel in lipsticks, lip-balm and anti-ageing creams and mercury in fairness creams available in the Delhi market. The results were compared with the available standards.
70% of diesel and 99.6% petrol is consumed in the transport sector alone finds this all India study on sectoral demand of diesel & petrol conducted by M/s Nielsen (India) Pvt Ltd for Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell (PPAC), Petroleum Ministry.
The Policy Guidelines formulated for land management will provide the necessary regulatory framework for land allotment and other Port specific practice like waterfront charges/way-leave permissions etc. The endeavour of the Policy is to enable the Ports to carry out leasing and licensing of Port land in a transparent manner. Read full text.
The weekly digest of important reports, research, policy documents, regulations, studies, court cases, protests,conflicts, initiatives, photos, data, statistics, infographics, presentations on the India Environment Portal, 04 - 10 January 2014.
The revised draft policy on inspection, verification, monitoring and overall procedure relating to grant of forest clearances and identification of forests released by the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF).
Letter to M/s TANGEDCO (Tamil Nadu Electricity Board) from Ministry of Environment & Forests regarding environmental clearance of 2x800 MW Ennore SEZ Supercritical Imported Coal based Thermal Power Plant by M/s TANGEDCO at Village Vayalur, in Ponneri Taluk, in District Thiruvallur, in Tamil Nadu dated 7th January, 2014.
Reform of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) process in India has favored a decentralization process by delegating the responsibility over environmental clearance of certain activities to state-level authorities, but variations in the strength of environmental enforcement across states has resulted in an increase of births for polluting industries affected by the reform in states with lower level of enforcement, finds this working paper published by Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy.
Letter to M/s Posco India Private Limited from Ministry of Environment & Forests regarding revalidation of environmental clearance of Integrated Iron & Steel Plant (4.0 MTPA) with Captive Power Plant (4x100MW) at Kujang, Near Paradip, Jagatsinghpur in Odisha by M/s POSCO India Private Limited dated 7th January, 2014
The O.M. of even number dated 19.12.2012 deals with the guidelines for granting Environment Clearance (EC) for expansion of coal mining projects involving one time capacity expansion of up to 25% in the existing operation.
