India, July 22 -- The Government of India issued the following news release:

The Government of India regulates the manufacture, sale and the use of pesticides in the country through comprehensive legislation known as Insecticides Act, 1968 and Insecticides Rules, 1971 and pesticides are allowed for use in the country only after ensuring the efficacy and safety of the pesticides to prevent risk to human beings or animals or environment and for matters connected therewith. Further, all the manufacturers including multinational companies are mandated to prescribe the details of doses, crops, usage instructions, toxicity triangle, safety pictograms, precautionary measures, antidotes etc. on Label and Leaflets of pesticides for the benefit of f...