Canada funded a fictitious study on cancerous milk in India

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Do you know what the largest agricultural commodity produced in India is?

You must be thinking, either
Rice or wheat, think again the right answer is milk, yes. It’s milk. India’s milk production has increased 100% in the last 15 years today; India produces 188 million tons of milk a year and accounts for 22 percent of global milk production.

Canada Funded Fake Study On Cancerous Milk In India

The per capita availability of milk in India of 394 grams per day is much higher than the world average of 294 grams. In fact, out of 10.8 million tons of butter produced globally, India alone produces 5.8 million tonnes. Most of this is converted to key for consumption.

The USA, the second-largest, produces just about 50 percent of what India does. Such is the scale of India’s dairy production. India is truly the land of milk and milk products. Since ancient times, these have been an integral part of the Indian diet and culture.

Canada Funded Fake Study On Cancerous Milk In India

Unlike the western countries, dairying in India is primarily a rural household activity managed mainly by the women in the family. Surprisingly very similar to India’s handloom industry. Individually small but collectively big. Milk represents a massive 26 percent of India’s agricultural GDP.

It is an important source of income for about 80 million rural households dairying and is the economic engine for India’s agricultural sector. Now can you imagine the damage from a scandalous attack on the image of India’s dairy sector, the economic fallout for India would be catastrophic, behold that’s being attempted?

A recent shocking attack on India’s dairy sector came from Canada. Canada’s international development and research centre (IDRC) allotted as much as Canadian dollars, 1.9 million, roughly around rupees 10 crores, to Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and animal sciences university in Punjab in 2017.

the motive was rather nefarious, tarnishing the image of Indian milk using this huge foreign funding.

The university produced a fake report claiming consumption of Indian milk would involve cancer risks because of heavy pesticide contamination. Their study was published in an online journal for global access, but when asked for evidence of laboratory tests such as chromatograms, both the university and Canada’s IDRC could not produce it.

Canada Funded Fake Study On Cancerous Milk In India

Forthcoming complaints were even sent to the prime minister of Canada and Canada’s high commissioner in India, only to be met with stoic silence. Experts believe that this Canada-funded study is completely fabricated and fake. The researchers did not establish the limit of detection (LOD)/limit of quantitation (LOQ).

Following the prescribed protocols, these are the fundamental requirements in any pesticide residue analysis to allege cancer risks from consuming Indian milk based on a fabricated study that is nothing but rumour-mongering with an intent to harm India’s dairy sector.

Indian Council of Agricultural Research scientists analysed 453 milk samples for pesticide residue and found none exceeding the residue limit.

In such a worrying scenario, some questions need to be asked can India allow unchecked foreign influence in our universities, leading to compromised research integrity and fake reports. In the USA, the white house, congress, and the federal funding agencies have all issued communications for new regulations, policies, and guidance for dealing with undue foreign influence on research integrity.

Canada Funded Fake Study On Cancerous Milk In India

The time has come for India to think on similar lines urgently; foreign donor agencies in India, such as Canada’s IDRC, do not come under the foreign contribution regulation act 2010. the impugned milk study funded by a foreign entity should serve as a wake-up call for specific regulatory oversight to ensure our universities and institutions’ research integrity.

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