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Concerns over MDH spices, SC on VVPATs, and AstraZeneca's admission

Concerns over MDH spices, SC on VVPATs, and AstraZeneca's admission

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Concerns over MDH spices, SC on VVPATs, and AstraZeneca's admission

Concerns over MDH spices, SC on VVPATs, and AstraZeneca's admission

Concerns over MDH spices, SC on VVPATs, and AstraZeneca's admission

Wednesday, 1st May 2024
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In this episode we talk about the voting

0:02

process and the supreme court would it regarding

0:04

it. Will. All to talk about. Astra

0:07

Zeneca Admitting that it's over nineteen vaccine

0:09

core we shield was his blood clots.

0:11

But. First we talk about why Hong

0:13

Kong and Singapore withdrew products from him

0:16

d and Everest. Hi

0:21

I'm the had a gun under a new

0:23

else can do three things they the and

0:25

express news show. Last

0:30

week Hong Kong and Singapore with

0:32

do for space mixes from too

0:34

often desktops. basement of factors mph

0:37

an interest after finding high levels

0:39

of Italy not salem them. A.

0:41

Pesticide which is known to cause cancer.

0:43

To. Understand how Ethylene oxide affects the

0:45

body and how Indian authorities have

0:48

responded to this. Indian Express is

0:50

unknown that joins us. Are

0:52

no know what have the Hong Kong

0:54

and Singapore Authority said while redrawing the

0:56

spice mixes. Saw. Vote

0:58

the authorities are star you know

1:00

shopkeepers the nerve to withdraw these

1:02

spice mix is from the shelves.

1:04

There were I think are some

1:06

four or five products across both

1:08

countries that are will be drawn

1:10

and this was because of the

1:13

presence of a compound called a

1:15

oxide in them. This so compound

1:17

is known to be carcinogenic to

1:19

human beings. So the I R

1:21

C which is a wh a

1:23

group that don't make Dean's list

1:25

of things that our gas not.

1:27

Any to human beings the have a

1:30

categorized as to Lean Oxide as the

1:32

group one carcinogen. Which. Is like

1:34

the most to carcinogenic. And

1:36

could you tell us what exactly is it?

1:38

Clean oxide and in what way is known

1:41

to affect the body? So.

1:43

Basically Ethylene oxide is

1:45

a pesticide and it

1:47

is usually used in

1:49

the fumigation offer crops

1:51

to prevent a bacterial

1:53

infections like go equal

1:55

I and salmonella so

1:57

maybe that's where this

1:59

can. They didn't get into the

2:01

sky snakes from as I said

2:03

it's a known carcinogen means it

2:06

can increase the risk of fall

2:08

that he stands as in people.

2:10

And also like it can lead

2:12

to certain know the in the

2:14

investments. That's how it would affect. And

2:17

tell us what kind of regulations are

2:19

there in Indiana? Guarding It's enough. Hate.

2:21

When. We look a star Singapore and

2:24

Hong Kong the said that.the as

2:26

he not side levels were more

2:28

than what is formatted but when

2:30

I'm not familiar with the laws

2:32

in those countries in India as

2:34

mean outside is not permitted at

2:36

all in our food products and

2:38

these as as I see I

2:40

which is the Indian food regulator

2:42

does not so delete this product

2:44

said going out to Sunday but

2:46

it's you distinction is on the

2:48

safety of food items. Which are

2:50

being sold him within India. And

2:53

our to ensure that door that is

2:55

no problem that exists in India the

2:57

have now on the t in the

2:59

days to test the spice mix is

3:01

our that are available in India. And

3:04

Imo nominate comes to the Food,

3:06

Sci Fi and Standards Authority of

3:08

India. I've got any specific spice

3:10

leader regulations of checks that need

3:12

to be cured before being said

3:14

that the public. Of cause

3:16

this is especially guys that are as

3:18

is his eyes undertaking after these the

3:21

news reports has come out of by

3:23

to are usually spices and like any

3:25

other food boot up the visible in

3:28

the market is a unison bridge that

3:30

is and i'm very food safety officer

3:32

and on the have a prescribed said

3:35

to space to check for various couldn't

3:37

determine and for for example like for

3:39

milk they would have said him them

3:42

for the men's light duty are being

3:44

the things that are most commonly. Found

3:46

in that their that suffered as the

3:48

food brought up. The have this list

3:51

of most common contaminants and they have

3:53

a specified to check for these goddamn

3:55

and. At a time when Hong

3:57

Kong and Singapore has it's own spice mix, I'm

4:00

in Viet. Nam learned that Us

4:02

authorities have refused about one third

4:04

of all spicer it's offense by

4:06

Mbs over the last six months.

4:09

What do we know about that? So. From

4:11

what I've seen in that apart

4:13

from the us that has been

4:15

any three souls or yeah i

4:17

think that his ex me it

4:19

was about self esteem percent and or

4:22

that has there been any reason

4:24

that and that have been mean the

4:26

attribute it to salmonella contamination in

4:28

the. Space mixes. So.

4:31

Well that's a different than son altogether.

4:33

But yes all of these new together

4:35

have brought. The of space mixes in

4:38

in down as in. So.

4:40

I'm I'm A. you mention that assesses the

4:42

I is now one two tests places in

4:44

India. Do. We know then that afford

4:46

can be made available. Soon as

4:49

I can say is right now

4:51

collecting samples, more just of MDs

4:53

and their best, it's collecting of

4:55

all the brands from across. Ones.

4:57

The samples have been selected and are

5:00

processed in the lab. It will also

5:02

think some are trying to put together

5:04

a national report so as as as

5:06

health issues as said the that are

5:09

consolidated support can be. Expected in

5:11

about though twenty diesel, so.

5:18

I'm next to talk about the voting

5:20

process last Friday the Supreme Court as

5:22

if it means that proposed changes to

5:24

the parent would and mechanism number. Dismayed

5:26

in The keys, the Association for Democratic

5:28

Reforms had demanded that we should return

5:31

to using paper ballots, stay busy, that

5:33

slips should be visited encountered and that

5:35

be sniffed should be handed to the

5:37

voters to Santa Fe before the drop

5:39

of and abetted bucks. No way.

5:41

The key for the paper ballots was. Later withdrawn

5:43

by the petitioner the supreme court and

5:45

afford it rejected. The other to praise as

5:47

well. And. While that has no

5:50

chance for the water, the photos now

5:52

that did. The lessons on the simple

5:54

include a symbol loading unit and microcontrollers

5:56

to the verification process. To. Know more

5:58

about the seems and what's happened. Then a

6:00

candidate, Salinger's that is Ice Indian Express

6:02

his ah many Not joins us. Domini.

6:05

To begin with, can you explain to

6:07

us what exactly happens when of water

6:09

postal costs? That would. Like

6:11

so of the thought of water and go

6:13

through a boiling season before thing to do

6:15

with make sure that they had endured on

6:18

the left or at all and sec their

6:20

name on the electorate or find out where

6:22

they're born in more than and accordingly go

6:24

to that location. went to go to a

6:26

polling booths that though thing to remember is

6:29

that you have the caddy of water id

6:31

all other ideas like the odd Hawes if

6:33

you don't have old lady a food and

6:35

all the war does that a of water

6:37

in a particular polling booth you have allowed

6:40

to vote even without. Award Id card as

6:42

long as it on that old in that area.

6:44

So. When you enter you have to first

6:46

are they take your name on the water

6:49

Is that accurate? Id prove a point in

6:51

offices and or than a mark on your

6:53

finger and or take a signature on it

6:55

as is still. Then you'll be asked to

6:57

boy into the whole thing compartment which is

7:00

kind of cordoned off from the rest of

7:02

the polling booth. And. Of though

7:04

even or ballots in Adobe in front

7:06

of you A you make your choice

7:08

and you hear a loud beep which

7:10

means that your choices and record it

7:12

and net so that would be as

7:14

easy bad machine where you will find

7:16

the candidate is selected the name is

7:18

Emma again and refunded on a piece

7:20

of paper in that we the that

7:22

machine it as the in front of

7:24

you for seven seconds then it'll get

7:26

fucked and the up into though com

7:29

button below. And. Nominee when

7:31

it comes to the even, it

7:33

requires certain amount of preparation. Before

7:35

just would be was by the borders

7:37

on that is made to seem looting

7:39

unit. Or. That you comes in. So.

7:42

Who do penance of what exactly that is?

7:44

That. An easy am a sense to me

7:47

is t different parts it is so

7:49

control unit the ballot unit which is

7:51

the one that the water uses of

7:53

gaza board and of easy but with

7:55

as the paper auditors machine. So.

7:57

according to the election commission though

8:00

EVM ballot unit, control unit and

8:02

a VV pad, they all have

8:04

microcontrollers or memories which are

8:06

programmed at the time of manufacture.

8:09

These basically are done agnostic of

8:11

the candidate or party. There is

8:13

no information for a particular constituency

8:15

or a particular candidate on these

8:17

memories according to the EC. But

8:20

when it's time for elections, just

8:22

a few days before polling, when

8:24

candidates of the particular constituency have

8:26

been decided, a process called symbol

8:28

loading is undertaken. A symbol loading

8:30

unit or SLU is basically a

8:32

memory. It's attached to a laptop

8:34

or PC. From there,

8:36

a bitmap file containing information of

8:39

the name, symbol and serial number

8:41

of the candidates of that constituency

8:43

is loaded onto this SLU. This

8:46

SLU is then connected onto the VV

8:48

pad and it transfers this file onto

8:50

the VV pad. So this is the

8:52

only point in the entire pre-voting process

8:54

where the candidates details are loaded onto

8:56

the machines. So, Ramani recently,

8:59

the Supreme Court gave directions to

9:01

the election commission regarding the SLU

9:03

and the microcontrollers. Can you

9:05

talk about what it said? So

9:08

the Supreme Court on the 26th

9:10

of April gave its judgment in

9:12

another case where the EVMs were

9:14

challenged again. The petitioners had wanted

9:16

the court to consider 100% verification

9:19

of EVPAD slips or a return

9:22

to paper ballots. The Supreme Court

9:24

declined both these, please. However, it

9:26

gave two directions. One

9:28

direction the court said was that the

9:30

SLU would have to be stored along

9:32

with the EVM and EVPAD for a

9:34

period of 45 days after results are

9:36

announced for a particular election. As of

9:39

now, the EVMs are kept for 45

9:41

days because that is the time allowed

9:43

for candidates or electors to challenge an

9:46

election through an election petition. Now with

9:48

the court's verdict, this SLU also becomes

9:50

a part of the devices that are

9:52

kept for 45 days in case there

9:55

is a challenge to that particular election.

9:57

The second part of the court's judgment

10:00

What about his microcontrollers daddy microcontrollers

10:02

in the valid unit than told

10:04

us any the that it has

10:07

to do than the in the

10:09

Quarter said that the candidates who

10:11

comes second or third in a

10:13

particular election day would have the

10:16

opportunity to see for verification of

10:18

five percent of the even microcontrollers

10:20

in this column. and she gusto

10:22

and Ceos Us and Nicolas Sarkozy.

10:25

Thought. Within seven days off results

10:27

been announced. A candidate can give

10:29

it in writing that they want

10:32

these microcontrollers to. We verified these

10:34

will then be open and checked

10:36

by Don't Engineers have to do.

10:38

Even manufacturing companies along with those

10:40

little fishes and candidates are present

10:43

It as is that. right?

10:45

And nominee can you tell us what happens

10:47

is an idiot question? See what in process

10:50

or the design of the next month? So.

10:52

The candidates even now they can challenge or

10:54

that I've seen within forty five days of

10:57

the process is Susan pulled out too broad

10:59

support of and file an election petition as

11:01

us Now the easy answer get stored in

11:03

case of them less than petition. Now with

11:06

the course that's when even as the news.

11:08

And the Sword for that period. Now

11:10

it is depending on the election commission

11:12

to implement these orders. Election commission will

11:14

have to put out standard operating procedures

11:16

of how this will work. What happens

11:19

in Guess a Candidate challenges is what

11:21

happens if a candidate once as a

11:23

news to be inspected so that directions

11:25

on mission will. Have to come up

11:27

with the procedures. And. In Giza

11:29

devices, I found to be tampered with what

11:32

happens in that case. So. Of

11:34

the court has said that as us

11:36

now the candidates the last to bear

11:38

the expense of hurting verification of the

11:40

microcontroller birthdays A microcontroller have been found

11:42

to be tampered with, don't have address

11:44

of beauty funded and or the court

11:46

and of course as an option of

11:48

counseling that election and auditing. As on

11:50

for that consistency. And nominee

11:53

does this? Would it bring anything into

11:55

tone for the would us. The.

11:57

Voting process for the water doesn't change at

11:59

all. the Supreme Court's judgment. It is

12:01

just that the candidates get another

12:03

opportunity to seek more transparency and

12:05

accountability in case they feel that

12:08

there is something wrong with the

12:10

particular election. And

12:16

in the end, we talk about the COVID-19

12:18

vaccine, Covishield. Global pharmaceutical

12:20

giant Astra Zenka for the first

12:23

time has admitted that its vaccine

12:25

against COVID-19 could

12:27

cause low platelet counts and formation of

12:29

blood clots in very rare cases. The

12:32

pharmaceutical company is being sued in

12:34

a class action over claims that

12:37

its vaccine against COVID-19 developed with

12:39

the University of Oxford caused death

12:41

and serious injury, including TTS, thrombosis

12:45

and thrombocytopenia syndrome, which causes people

12:47

to have blood clots and low

12:49

blood platelet count. Astra

12:52

Zenka's vaccine formula was licensed to

12:54

Pune-based vaccine maker, Serham Institute of

12:56

India, during the COVID-19 pandemic for

12:59

the manufacture of Covishield. More

13:01

than 174 crore doses

13:03

of Covishield have been administered in

13:05

India. The UK-based media

13:07

organisation The Telegraph reported that in

13:09

all 51 cases have

13:12

been lodged in the High Court in

13:14

the UK with victims and grieving relatives

13:16

seeking damages estimated to be worth up

13:18

to 100 million pounds.

13:21

A range of symptoms associated with

13:23

TTS include breathlessness pain in the

13:25

chest or limbs, pain head size

13:27

red spots or bruising of skin in

13:29

the area beyond the injection site,

13:32

headaches, numbness in body parts etc.

13:34

TTS could mean a restriction in

13:36

the blood flow due to clotting.

13:39

Before the COVID-19 vaccines were rolled

13:41

out in India, the Indian government

13:43

had issued a fact sheet in

13:45

January 2021 in which it specifically

13:47

said that Covishield, the Indian variant

13:49

of Astra Zenka's vaccine, should be

13:51

given with caution to individuals with

13:54

thrombocytopenia that is a condition of

13:56

low plebiscones. The

14:00

vaccines that we're giving to Indians. Then.

14:02

In March, Twenty Twenty One utopian. Some

14:05

sees including France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands and

14:07

then moths temporarily pause the use of

14:09

As Southern Cause vaccines after a few

14:11

cases of blood clotting were reported the

14:14

following month. The World as organization said

14:16

that Bts has been reported in some

14:18

cases of the vaccinations with will be

14:21

sealed and legs every up which is

14:23

the other thing meme of as says

14:25

and Cause Vaccine. However w it to

14:27

had added these are latest available data.

14:30

The risk of Pts is that Sylvia.

14:32

Ankle the seals that seems appears to

14:34

be very low. Data from the Uk

14:37

suggests that the risk is approximately focuses

14:39

four million adults. Meanwhile. He

14:41

made twenty twenty one. The Indian government

14:43

said that twenty six potential someone bilic

14:45

events or formation of thoughts in blood

14:47

vessels had been reported. Since core we

14:50

see that began to be administered the

14:52

union has been a C had found

14:54

this possibility as miscues and said that

14:56

will be sealed. Continues to has

14:58

a decimate positive benefit risk

15:00

profile. This. Tremendous potential to prevent

15:02

infections and reduce deaths due to

15:05

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15:08

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