A dementia sufferer aged 93 was fatally poisoned after eating laundry tablets that she mistook for sweets, an inquest heard. The death of Elizabeth Van Der-Drift prompted a coroner to write to the Health Secretary and the cleaning products trade body in a bid to look at how the tablets are packaged. Ian Potter, assistant coroner for Inner North London, …
Laundry detergent is looking a little different these days. “Laundry detergent can contain up to 90% water,” said Lisa Karandat, co-founder of Good JuJu, a company that sells sustainable laundry sheets and solid shampoo and conditioner bars, among other things. “Those big heavy jugs require a lot of space to truck around the country.” In addition to lower carbon emissions …
The Delhi Pollution Control Committee has told an NGT-appointed panel for monitoring pollution in the Yamuna that sewage containing detergent was responsible for the toxic foam seen in the river in July. The two-member Yamuna Monitoring Committee, comprising retired National Green Tribunal expert member B S Sajawan and former Delhi chief secretary Shailaja Chandra, had last month asked the Central …
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