In 2009 the World Health Organization (WHO) requested Indian authorities to join the international effort to ban the use on monocrotophos, the OP insecticide implicated in last week's deadly food contamination in Bihar province. Indian agriculture supporters managed to keep this deadly OP on the Indian market, and now we have this deadly, though preventable, fatal intoxication. There is no information on how the chemical wound up in a food kitchen, which company manufactured the product, and what has happened to the school's headmistress and her husband.
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