Source: TNIE
Context: The central government has proposed banning the widely used plant protection chemical carbosulfan, over its alleged toxic effects on human and animal health and the lack of any known antidote in the event of an accident.
Important Facts for Exams
- Carbosulfan → Carbamate insecticide → Acetylcholinesterase inhibitor.
- Proposed ban under the Insecticides Act, 1968
- Expert panel constituted 14 January; report submitted 12 June
- The ban covers manufacture, import, transport, distribution, sale and use
- Central Insecticides Board and Registration Committee (CIB&RC) registers pesticides in India
- India has previously banned or phased out several pesticides on the Anupam Verma Committee recommendations
- Monocrotophos, phorate, dichlorvos and others have faced similar review
- The Insecticides Act, 1968 is administered by the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
