The only disease to be eradicated in the last three years in India is polio, the government informed today.
"In the last three years, only disease to be eradicated from India was Polio, in 2014," Union Health Minister J P Nadda said, in a written reply in the Lok Sabha.
He said the government has noted that there has been recurrence of existing diseases and emergence of new ones like Drug Resistant Tuberculosis, Leprosy, Influenza A (H1N1), Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) and Kyasanur Forest Disease (KFD).
Nadda, however, said there has been no recurrence of any diseases which was eradicated in India.
Replying to another question, he said that regulatory norms for organic foods have not been finalised as yet.
"The draft standards for alcoholic beverages were approved by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India in its meeting held on September 4, 2015 and have been notified to the World Trade Organization (WTO) Technical Barriers to Trade and WTO Sanitary and Phytosanitary members countries on October 29, 2016 and December 1, 2015, respectively," he said.
