{"id":1015753,"date":"2026-06-20T07:54:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T02:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1015753"},"modified":"2026-06-20T07:54:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T02:24:32","slug":"tatas-iphone-parts-factory-faces-india-health-probe-after-farmer-contamination-complaints-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/20\/tatas-iphone-parts-factory-faces-india-health-probe-after-farmer-contamination-complaints-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tata&#8217;s iPhone parts factory faces India health probe after farmer contamination complaints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HOSUR: An Indian state health authority is investigating how liquid discharged from Apple supplier Tata&#8217;s iPhone components factory has affected farmers, some of whom complained about skin issues from contamination in their farmlands, according to three officials and a document reviewed by Reuters. <\/p>\n<p>The health investigation opens a new front in an environmental dispute that has become a test case for India&#8217;s push to become a major manufacturing hub for Apple iPhones. The Tata Electronics plant in Hosur in southern Tamil Nadu state was sent a warning notice by the state pollution control board on May 25 for allegedly contaminating groundwater in adjacent farms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOSUR: An Indian state health authority is investigating how liquid discharged from Apple supplier Tata&#8217;s iPhone components factory has affected farmers, some of whom complained about skin issues from contamination in their farmlands, according to three officials and a document reviewed by Reuters. The health investigation opens a new front in an environmental dispute that has become a test case for India&#8217;s push to become a major manufacturing hub for Apple iPhones. The Tata Electronics plant in Hosur in southern Tamil Nadu state was sent a warning notice by the state pollution control board on May 25 for allegedly contaminating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1015753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015767,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015753\/revisions\/1015767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}