pesticides in your spices

Your food controller allowed more pesticides in your spices

Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) is under fire for raising the limit of pesticides in spices and culinary herbs.

FSSAI issued orders on increasing pesticide levels in spices.

Professor D. Narasimha Reddy, a public policy expert, said, "This is the most unscientific order. Earlier, the maximum residue limit (MRL) was 0.01 mg/kg, and it has now been raised to 0.1 mg/kg, which is 10 times higher than what was previously specified."

Pesticide Action Network’s Dileep Kumar said that in their independent research, they found the presence of residues increased from 22.6% in 2018 to 35.9% in 2022

However, the FSSAI order stated that the Central Insecticides Board and Registration Committee(CIBRIC) field trial data has been relied upon to arrive at MRLs.

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