January 11, 2012
Many rice farmers work under the mistaken impression that regular insecticide applications are necessary to attain high yields. However, decades of research by scientists around the world has shown that healthy and productive rice crops can be produced with little or no insecticide applications in most years. Nonetheless, farmers continue to apply dangerous chemicals [...]
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December 3, 2011
The Drug Administration of Vietnam (DAV) announced Tuesday (November 29) that tests showed a carcinogen was not present in a popular Johnson & Johnson baby shampoo. Tests conducted by the Ho Chi Minh City Medicine Testing Institute did not find 1,4-Dioxane in Johnson’s Baby Shampoo, while a substance called quaternium-15, which releases formaldehyde, was [...]
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November 26, 2011
Skin ulcers on a person in central Vietnam. The condition has not been named and its cause is suspected to be plant protection chemicals. Dermatologists suggested that strange skin ulcers affecting many people in central Vietnam is caused by plant protection chemicals.  The conclusion was made by experts at the Vietnam Central Dermatology Hospital after [...]
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November 8, 2011
Vietnam authorities have ordered tests of Johnson & Johnson baby shampoo after a US coalition of environment and health groups warned that the company has not yet removed toxic chemicals from its products despite their demand in 2009. Nguyen Xuan Tien, deputy head of Cosmetics Department under the Drug Administration of Vietnam, told Thanh [...]
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September 19, 2011
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has issued a warning about illegal agrochemicals of Chinese origin, including feed additives and herbicides, that are harmful to human health and the environment. Â At a meeting held Friday to discuss on enforcement of measures to ensure food safety and monitor agricultural chemicals, agriculture minister Cao [...]
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August 14, 2011
A man injects a chemical solution into a jackfruit to make it ripen quicker Fruit farmers in southern Vietnam are injecting their produce with chemicals to make them ripen quicker and go rotten slower. Â Orchard owners and fruit dealers — particularly those dealing in jackfruit and durian –Â have also been found soaking their goods [...]
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May 27, 2011
South Korean environmentalists stage a rally in front of the U.S embassy in Seoul. South Korea opened a second investigation in days into a report that the US military dumped toxic chemicals near the capital decades ago, a Defense Ministry official said on Wednesday, threatening to trigger an anti-American backlash. Experts have been sent to [...]
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January 23, 2011
Scientists urge for urgent action as more than one-fourth of water wells in the Red River Delta are contaminated with the carcinogenic chemicals A resident in Vietnam’s Red River Delta shows skin lesions caused by arsenic poisoning. Scientists have warned against an “alarming” contamination of arsenic and other toxic chemicals in the Delta’s groundwater. [...]
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December 10, 2009
Awareness of labour safety and hygiene among farmers remains low, and has been illustrated by their improper use of toxic chemicals and equipment. According to the Ministry of Labour, Invalid and Social Affairs’ Preventive Medicine Centre’s deputy head, Tran Thi Ngoc Lan, farmers account for 70 per cent of the total workforce nationwide and regularly [...]
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December 5, 2009
Recent research results show that only one third of rural farmers know how to use electricity and insecticides, while the remaining do not know or know a little about them. In recent years, together with the development of science and technology, the use of modern machines in agricultural production activities has become more popular and [...]
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