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In 1969 the Joint Study Group of the Indian Council of Medical Research—Government of West Bengal— WHO Cholera Research Project investigated the immunoglobulin levels in serum, intestinal juice, and feces from patients with cholera and noncholeraic diarrhea. They reported the following findings ... 

Satyavati, G. V. Raine, M. K. and Sharma, M. "Medicinal Plants of India Azadirachta (Meliaceae) Indian Council of Medical Research Publication New Delhi, India, Vol. 7, pp. 487. 

Apart from classical organochlorines, not much literature is available on the occurrence of other PTS compounds like butyltins, polybromin-ated diphenyl ethers, etc. in Indian human breast milk. Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) in their news bulletin of the year 2004 has indicated that they could detect PCDDs and PCDFs in the human milk samples collected from Ahmedabad, Vadodara and Surat cities (http //icmr.nic.in). They have found that the TEQs of dioxins and related compounds in their samples ranged from about 2 to 16 pg g 1 lipid weight of human milk. 

The government encourages measurement of the pesticide and other chemical contamination of soil, water and food that has been a much-researched subject in India since the 1970s. Several national and international agencies carry out regular research on toxic chemicals, especially on pesticides in India. In 1986, The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) began a project on surveillance of food contaminants in India and found that 51% of the food items tested were contaminated with various pesticides and 20% of them had pesticide levels above the... 

Source Modified from Laboratory Animal Information Service and Centre, National Institute of Nutrition, Indian Council of Medical Research, Government of India, Hyderabad, India. 

Indian Council of Medical Research, Health Effects of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy, Report pp. 1-16, Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, India, 1986. 

A cancer registry was initiated by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) in 1986. However, no conclusive evidence of an increase in cancer in the exposed population has been documented. Dikshit and Kanhere (1999) analyzed the incidence of cancer in gas-exposed males during1987-1992 but found no significant increase in cancer. On the other hand, these researchers (Dikshit and Kanhere, 1999) predicted that a true estimate of any increase in the incidence of cancer can only be made 15-20 years after the accident, but no such study has since been pubhshed. 

ICMR (1985). Health effects of exposure to toxic gas at Bhopal an update on ICMR sponsored researches. Indian Council of Medical Research (December), New Delhi. 

Chopra RN, Chopra IC. A review of work on Indian medicinal plants. Indian Council of Medical Research Special Report Series No. 1, 1959 99, 107. 

In a survey by the Indian Council of Medical Research, a total of 186 samples of 20 brands of infant formula milk were collected from retail diops in and around Pune, Bombay, Mysore, Lucknow, and Ludhiana, and analyzed for HCH isomers and DDT-complex. Residues of total HCH and DDT-complex were detected in 175 (94.1%), and 130 (69.9%) of samples, respectively. The study also indicated high levels of metal contamination (As, Cd, Pb, Cu, and Zn) in infant formula milk [22] (see Table 8.6). These collectively cause neural dysfunction. 

ICMR, Indian Council of Medical Research Report, Surveillance of food contaminants in India , 1993. 

Whether or not hydrogen cyanide (HCN) was the cause of death following the disaster in Bhopal and whether or not people should be treated with sodium thiosulfate (NTS) became a controversial issue, involving the medical profession, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR),... 

Indian Council of Medical Research Parts per million Triiodothyronine Thyroxine... 

A seven year study by the Indian Council of Medical Research released in 1993 analysed 2205 cow and buffalo milk samples from 12 states. HCH (lindane) was detected in about 85% of the samples, with up to 41% of the samples exceeding tolerance limits. DDT residues were detected in 82% of the samples and 37% contained residues above the limit of 0.05 mg/kg, in some cases 44 times higher at 2.2 mg/kg. 

Cevallier, A., Encyclopedia of Medicinal Plants, Darling Kindersley Ltd., London, 1996, p. 118 Satyavati, G.V., Gupta, A.K., and Tandon, Ei., Medicinal Plants of India, Vol. 2, Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, 1987, p. 355. 

Mineral balance Calcium and bone metabolism have been assessed in 144 Indian subjects before and after 6 months of treatment with antiepileptic drugs [78. At the start of foUow-up, daily dietary calcium intake was lower than the dietary aUowance recommended by the Indian Council of Medical Research, and two-thirds of the recruited subjects were vitamin D deficient. Subjects with normal 25-hydroxycholecalciferol concentrations at baseline had significant falk in 25-hydroxycolecalciferol concentrations, urinary calcium concentrations, and tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase activity at the end of 6 months, irrespective of the antiepileptic drug used. 

Indian Council of Medical Research. Department of Health Research of the Ministry of Health Family Welfare and Department of Biotechnology. New Delhi Ministry of Science and Technology 2011 Guidelines for evaluation of probiotics in food, [Pg.37]

Soon after the Bhopal accident, the government of India promised to conduct a comprehensive study on the acute and long-term effects of exposme to MIC. The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) released approximately 2 million for research a cohort of 80,021 gas-exposed people and 15,931 controls were registered, but only 16,8 exposed subjects and 5,741 controls could be contacted in 2010 (Sharma, 2013). Researchers were not recruited to study all aspects of toxicity. No definite criteria were set to make a quantitative assessment of the exposure to MIC the best estimate has remained the distance from the Union Carbide factory (Dhara et al., 2002). A number of laboratories in the United States and United Kingdom initiated research on MIC (Environmental Health Perspective, 1987), but their interest faded quickly. The twentieth anniversary of the disaster drew the attention of the media, but not of researchers. 

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