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Today's topics: * For your information - 1 messages, 1 author http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/8a830d90600d8f86 * Leading the way to a toxin-free India. - 1 messages, 1 author http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/d84da51acdcad617 * photos - 1 messages, 1 author http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/4ea7bedb35664c76 * Poland too bans GM food: What is India doing? - 1 messages, 1 author http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/2c2a31760cec2f5c ============================================================================== TOPIC: For your information http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/8a830d90600d8f86 ============================================================================== == 1 of 1 == Date: Mon, Apr 24 2006 6:00 am From: ashish roy Hi All, I thought I should share this with you all because it's everyone's concern. --------------------------- Have you heard about LPG gas cylinder's expiry date ? Most of us do not know this. Someone learnt this today from a gas stockist after an accident occurred and Human Life was extinguished. Expired Cylinders are not safe for use and may cause accidents. Please be cautious at the time of accepting any LPG cylinder from the vendor. Here is how we can check the expiry of LPG cylinders :On one of the three side stems of the cylinder the expiry date is coded alpha-numerically : A or B or C or D and a two digit number following this e.g. D06.The alphabets stand for quarters - 'A' for Jan.-March (1st. Qtr), 'B' for Apr.-June (2nd. Qtr), 'C' for Jul.-Sept (3rd. Qtr) and 'D' for Oct.-December (4th. Qtr). The digits stand for the year till it is valid. Hence D06 would mean December qtr of 2006. Share this message with everyone you know. A little effort may save lives of many innocent people and create awareness among the public, particularly women who are more at risk in the kitchen using the Gas Cylinders. 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Messenger Mobile Stay in touch with your buddies all the time. ============================================================================== TOPIC: Leading the way to a toxin-free India. http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/d84da51acdcad617 ============================================================================== == 1 of 1 == Date: Sun, Apr 23 2006 10:39 pm From: Jagannath Chatterjee Leading the way to a toxin-free India HT Live Correspondent April 22 --> var href= window.location.href; href = href.substring(7); var idx = href.indexOf("/"); var relpath = href.substring(idx); document.write("" + " "); Advertisement 0.gif" width="1" height="3"> var zflag_nid="294"; var zflag_cid="1"; var zflag_sid="0"; var zflag_width="180"; var zflag_height="150"; var zflag_sz="13"; THEY CALL him 'the lead man' of India as he got Indians rid of the 'lead' in petrol. Now he is after batteries. Director, National Referral Centre for Lead Poisoning in India (NRCLPI) and Head of the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at St. John's National Academy of Health Sciences, Bangalore, Prof Thuppil Venkatesh is a man on a mission against the carelessness with which lead is allowed to poison our water, air and environment. He was in the city on Saturday to attend the workshop 'quality control in clinical laboratories' organised by the KGMU's department of bio-chemistry and to talk about his mission and vision for a toxin-free environment in India. It was fortunate that the government could notice the presence of lead in the blood and the hazards from it, specially for the kids. But there is a lot to be done for keeping toxic lead away from our stomach, Prof Venkatesh said. Presently, he said, he was working on a draft proposal for the manufacturing units of batteries and their reuse in India with OK International Organisation. The draft would include safe production process for battery companies, which may restrict the flow of lead into the environment. The problem is grave with the reuse of batteries also where the major players are railways and telecom industry. If the defunct batteries are returned to the manufacturing units and are disposed of adequately, the problem could be less serious, he said. Along with batteries, metal scrap, paints and computer monitors are some of the key sources of lead and ubiquitous parts of modern living. "We need to do something about them also. Lead quietly eats into our health, affecting the human nervous system, male fertility, kidney and growth and functioning of the brain", he says. Delivering a lecture on the accreditation of hospitals and medical laboratories at the workshop, Prof Venkatesh pointed out that functioning of the laboratories was useless if it gave inaccurate test results for the doctors to diagnose and treat patients. What was more, if the toxic waste from the laboratories and the hospitals continued to rock the roads, it would add to the worry. Therefore, it was necessary that laboratories too followed certain norms and the best ones had been drafted by the National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibrating Laboratories (NABL), said Prof Venkatesh. Dr Abbas Ali Mahdi of the department of bio-chemistry said that still there were a few laboratories that got accreditation done with NABL. He said the process was optional but more laboratories should come forward to form a higher standard of diagnosis and treatment. The programme was addressed by a number of experts and scientists from different institutes and was conducted by Dr Abbas Ali Mahdi. Printed From window.print(); "Our ideal is not the spirituality that withdraws from life but the conquest of life by the power of the spirit." - Aurobindo. --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and 30+ countries) for 2¢/min or less. ============================================================================== TOPIC: photos http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/4ea7bedb35664c76 ============================================================================== == 1 of 1 == Date: Mon, Apr 24 2006 12:30 am From: "vivek claire" ============================================================================== TOPIC: Poland too bans GM food: What is India doing? http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/2c2a31760cec2f5c ============================================================================== == 1 of 1 == Date: Mon, Apr 24 2006 4:51 am From: "inquisitive" The reason behind countries/farmers using GM crops is for increased productivity and increased yield per hectare. The unfortunate thing in India is the fact that the Green Revolution was NOT as big a success as it was projected. The lack of result proves it. The farmers are dutifully blamed for this by the intellectuals. Policy makers should invest in bio-famering and aim at theorizing and formalizing the ancient farming methods that are in practice. Instead they are all bent upon opening up farming sector to foreign players which will lead only to further farmer suicides. www.hereticalrecusant.blogspot.com ============================================================================== You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BM_discussion" group. 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