Indian spices are now on global food regulators' radar after Hong Kong and Singapore first sounded the bugle over the presence of ethylene oxide (EtO) in some variants of Indian masala exported to those countries.
Other regulators, such as those in New Zealand and the United Kingdom, were quick to act and also started investigating the issue, as reported by Reuters, while the Indian food authorities-Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) found no traces of EtO in the samples of the two major brands that came under scrutiny: MDH and Everest.
Its findings were on the samples of spices sold in India. The export packages are being sampled by the nodal agency under the government-Spices Board of India to check for presence of Eto in spices exported to Hong Kong and Singapore.
The Spices Board has already started testing every spice sample of both MDH and Everest and has launched inspections at their production facilities to ensure that spices are produced and exported as per prescribed standards.
During the course of reporting on these developments, Business Standard reached out to both the brands for comments, but neither responded.
The question is, who is to blame?
Many regulators, not enough
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