Which one is more harmful: Mosquito or mosquito coil
Dr Nowsheen Sharmin Purabi: Recently a research report shows that, in most of the mosquito coils consumed in Bangladesh contain active ingredient more than acceptable standard rate.
As per World Health Organisation, qualities of a good standard coil is safety for human health as well as domestic animals. The highest quantity of applicable insecticide per square meter is also determined by the organisation. But the mosquito coils consumed in Bangladesh are being manufactured and marketed without the compliance with standard criteria and mixing excessive poisonous ingredients.
How do we come to the contact of poisonous chemical ingredients? The smoke of the coil withers away and mixes with the air of the house where we breath. They are being mixed with the dusts of home. We swallow them alon...