FSSAI Asks Food Safety Commissioners To Collect MDH And Everest Samples
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The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has asked all its food safety commissioners to collect samples of MDH, Everest and all other spices from across India to find whether the spice manufacturing companies are following the standard procedure or not.
The development took place after Hong Kong banned the sale of popular Indian brands MDH Pvt. and Everest Food Products Pvt. following alleged detection of the carcinogenic pesticide ethylene oxide in several spice mixes. Ironically, last week Singapore took similar action against Everest, alleging the presence of ethylene oxide at levels surpassing permissible limits.
