Mysterious disease: AP CM directs regular tests of food, drinking water in all districts
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Last Updated: Dec 16, 2020, 08:07 PM IST
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The Chief Minister held a further round of video- conference with experts from various national institutions that tested the food, drinking water, urine and other samples to trace out the causative factors of the mysterious disease
Experts from AIIMS, New Delhi, the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, the National Institute of Nutrition and other research organisations confirmed the presence of pesticide residues, organochlorine, lead and nickel in blood, milk and vegetables.
Amaravati: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy on Wednesday directed officials to set up public health laboratories in all districts to regularly test food, drinking water and soil samples for possible presence of carcinogenic substances in the backdrop of a mysterious disease that affected several residents in Eluru. The directive
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Send The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and other organisations on Wednesday have found that pesticide residues were the reason for the outbreak of the mysterious illness in Andhra Pradesh s West Godavari district headquarters Eluru, a state government statement said.
Amaravati: The experts said a long term in-depth study is required to understand how these residues of pesticides entered the human body, it said.
Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy has entrusted this responsibility to AIIMS, and the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT).
He held a video conference with experts on the mysterious illness.
The CM also instructed officials to conduct tests across West Godavari, including on drinking water samples from all sources in all the districts.