The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) on November 29, 2023, issued a notification regarding the direction to all notified laboratories to test banned pesticides in Tea.
The following has been stated: -
•In exercise of the powers conferred under the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006, FSSAI has notified the FSS (Contaminants, Toxins, and Residues) Regulations, 2011, to facilitate testing of food products to ascertain the safety of food products in India.
•FSSAI on March 19, 2018, published the Food Safety and Standards (Contaminants, toxins, and Residues) First Amendment Regulations, 2018, thereby banning the use of 20 pesticides (attached at Annexure-1) as per the Insecticides Act, 1968.
•FSSAI after thorough deliberations with relevant stakeholders hereby directs all the laboratories notified under sections 43 (1) and 43 (2) of the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006, to test the 20 banned pesticides (attached in Annexure-1) in addition to all the pesticides specified for Tea as per FSS (Contaminants, Toxins, and Residues) regulations, 2011.
The detailed notification is given in the document attached below.
[Notification No. File No.QA/3/2021/FSSAI-Part (3)]
