Source: oneworldnews.com
The ban imposed by Nepal’s Department of Food Technology and Quality Control includes both importing and consuming Indian spice brands like Everest and MDH, and the authorities have also started testing level of ethylene oxide from imported samples, according to a senior official talking to ANI.
Two spice brands namely Guar and Renu were banned in Nepal as the danger was informed by a report on the presence of ethylene oxide remnants.
Among the famous brands the suppliers like Everest and MDH Bazaar which collect and import spices in Nepal have been banned from imports. This came after the news about the presence of harmful chemicals in the spices, ban on the import of it had been imposed a week before and the sales of these spices had been also prohibited in the market,” Mohan Krishna Maharjan, spokesperson of Nepal’s Department of Food Technology and Quality Control, told.
Spices of these two brands are being tested for their composition in chemical grounds. “Hong Kong and Singapore have already banned it, they are the ones who took the first move,” Maharjan said this in an interview.
The information supplied by the officials of Indian Government to the ANI agency states that EtO use is permitted by different countries from time to time.
