AIR & HEALTH | WATER & HEALTH | TOXINS & HEALTH
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Conference on
Health and Environment [March 24-25, 2006] Draft programme Toxins, food safety and health Click for speaker profiles... Venue: Magnolia India Habitat Centre Lodhi Road New Delhi Click on the  icon next to the presentation to view the
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| Session 1 | State of the art in regulating toxins | |
| Session Chairperson | Prof P. K. Seth, former director, Industrial Toxicology Research Centre, Lucknow | |
| 10.30 | Pesticide risk reduction | Mr. Harry van der Wulp Senior IPM Policy Officer Global IPM Facility Food and Agriculture Organisation Rome |
| 11.00 | Setting standards for chemical toxins in food commodities – Developing country challenges | Alexander von Hildebrand Environmental Health Advisor Food & Chemical Safety Division, World Health Organisation South-east Asia Regional Office New Delhi |
| 11.30 | Government initiatives in standard setting for pesticides | Sandhya Kulshresta, Secretary, Central Insecticides Board & Registration Committee Faridabad |
| 12.00 | DISCUSSIONS | |
| 1.30 | LUNCH | |
| 2.30 | Biomonitoring of pesticides in Punjab | Kushal P Yadav, Correspondent, CSE |
| 3.00 | Regulation of pesticides in India
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Chandra Bhushan, Associate Direcotr, CSE |
| Session 2: | Way forward | Facilitated discussion |
| 3.30 – 3.45 | TEA | |
| 3.45 – 5.30 | DISCUSSIONS | |
| DAY 2 | March 25 | |
| Session 3 | Monitoring chemical toxins in the environment – Indian experience | |
| Session chairperson | Dr. A. S Bawa Director, Defence Food Research Laboratory (DFRL) |
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| 9.30 | Impact of endosulfan on human health: Biomonitoring case study from India | Dr. Aruna Dewan, Deputy
Director, National Institute of Occupational Health |
| 10.00 | ...from Sequence to Survival | Dr. V. K Bhatnagar Assistant Director Pesticide Toxicology Division, National Institute of Occupational Health |
| 10.30-10.50 | TEA | |
| 10.50 | Heavy metal contamination in fruits and vegetables in India | Ravi Agarwal, Director,
Toxics Linkpresentationsummary of technical
report– March 2003 |
| 11.30 | Health risk assessment and management for air toxins in Indian environment | Dr. Manju Mohan, Professor,
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi |
| 12.00 | HCH in the Indian Environment - the need to clean HCH waste at dump sites. | Rup Lal Department of Zoology, University of Delhi |
| 12.30 | Facilitated discussion | |
| 1.30 | LUNCH | |
| 2.30 | Common Plenary,Valedictory session | |
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