Call fruit traders using calcium carbide to mature carcinogen "worse than terrorists" fruits, Hyderabad High Court on Wednesday ordered a thorough investigation into the use of poison and stopped the authorities to do sight fat.
Six days after the high court had asked the respective governments to undertake immediate greengrocers attacks across Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, a division bench comprising Acting Chief Justice and Justice Dilip Bhosale B SV S Bhatt appointed lead counsel Niranjan Reddy as amicus curiae Read more on the illegal practice and reach a solution.
"To earn a few extra rupees, you are putting dozens of lives at risk. These traders are worse than terrorists, killing generations of people with slow poison," he said Chief Justice to act. Calcium carbide is a chemical compound with two products main -acetylene a colorless widely used as fuel gas and calcium cyanamide, used as fertilizer in agriculture-are extremely harmful to the human body.
Farmers pluck the fruit before they ripen naturally and send them to the markets where they are treated with calcium carbide which acts as a hormone stimulator and thus speeds up the ripening process.
While doctors have said for decades that carcinogenic calcium carbide containing traces of arsenic aproven and can cause cancer, kidney disease and other neurological disorders, successive governments have done little to stop the illegal practice. Worse, many traders harmful chemicals (sweeteners) are injected into mangoes, papayas and apples to make them strangely sweet.
On August 14, the court asked the authorities of individual states to attack fruit markets immediately after knowledge of a local news report said most of the markets were selling fruit Hyderabad artificially ripened fruits are picked .
Following raids in three markets, the special advocate a government Telangana Sanjeev Kumar said the high court bench inspection teams found the rampant use of calcium carbide. "The inspection officials found calcium carbide wrapped in paper and held amid piles of fruits.We seized carbide, shops sealed and sent off to the laboratory," Kumar said. "Reports from the laboratories indicated that these fruits are safe for consumption," he added.
As lead counsel Gangaiah P Naidu speaking on behalf of the traders of fruit and tried to fend them, the bank said that traders would do well to sell raw mangoes, leaving the work of maturation for consumers, but could not use carbide calcium. The only way to allow fruits to ripen the natural process is complete, was observed.
The bank also called amicus curiae S Niranjan Reddy to study the issue and report to the court on the impact of carbide on the health of human beings and especially children nervous system.
"Until now we were asking children not to eat junk food. We have now reached a stage where we have unfortunate ask them not to eat fruits too," said the judge Bhosale.
The bank also snubbed Ramesh D AP attorney who told the court that inspections have found no presence of carbide in Andhra markets. Errant traders have to face prosecution in addition to the suspension of their licenses, said the bank and directed to the AP, Telangana and the Centre to file affidavits within two weeks detailing the inspections carried out and measures to prevent the use of carbide in fruits
Six days after the high court had asked the respective governments to undertake immediate greengrocers attacks across Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, a division bench comprising Acting Chief Justice and Justice Dilip Bhosale B SV S Bhatt appointed lead counsel Niranjan Reddy as amicus curiae Read more on the illegal practice and reach a solution.
"To earn a few extra rupees, you are putting dozens of lives at risk. These traders are worse than terrorists, killing generations of people with slow poison," he said Chief Justice to act. Calcium carbide is a chemical compound with two products main -acetylene a colorless widely used as fuel gas and calcium cyanamide, used as fertilizer in agriculture-are extremely harmful to the human body.
Farmers pluck the fruit before they ripen naturally and send them to the markets where they are treated with calcium carbide which acts as a hormone stimulator and thus speeds up the ripening process.
While doctors have said for decades that carcinogenic calcium carbide containing traces of arsenic aproven and can cause cancer, kidney disease and other neurological disorders, successive governments have done little to stop the illegal practice. Worse, many traders harmful chemicals (sweeteners) are injected into mangoes, papayas and apples to make them strangely sweet.
On August 14, the court asked the authorities of individual states to attack fruit markets immediately after knowledge of a local news report said most of the markets were selling fruit Hyderabad artificially ripened fruits are picked .
Following raids in three markets, the special advocate a government Telangana Sanjeev Kumar said the high court bench inspection teams found the rampant use of calcium carbide. "The inspection officials found calcium carbide wrapped in paper and held amid piles of fruits.We seized carbide, shops sealed and sent off to the laboratory," Kumar said. "Reports from the laboratories indicated that these fruits are safe for consumption," he added.
As lead counsel Gangaiah P Naidu speaking on behalf of the traders of fruit and tried to fend them, the bank said that traders would do well to sell raw mangoes, leaving the work of maturation for consumers, but could not use carbide calcium. The only way to allow fruits to ripen the natural process is complete, was observed.
The bank also called amicus curiae S Niranjan Reddy to study the issue and report to the court on the impact of carbide on the health of human beings and especially children nervous system.
"Until now we were asking children not to eat junk food. We have now reached a stage where we have unfortunate ask them not to eat fruits too," said the judge Bhosale.
The bank also snubbed Ramesh D AP attorney who told the court that inspections have found no presence of carbide in Andhra markets. Errant traders have to face prosecution in addition to the suspension of their licenses, said the bank and directed to the AP, Telangana and the Centre to file affidavits within two weeks detailing the inspections carried out and measures to prevent the use of carbide in fruits
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