After Singapore and Hong Kong, Nepal has become the latest country to ban spices from the brands MDH masala and Everest after reports of the presence of ethylene oxide in them. the US customs have also refused a staggering 31 per cent of all spice-related shipments exported by MDH over the past six months due to salmonella contamination, An Indian Express report said that this refusal rate is double from the previous year’s 15 per cent.
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“Everest and MDH brand spices which are being imported in Nepal have been banned from import. This comes after the news about traces of harmful chemicals in the spices, ban on import was imposed a week earlier and we also have banned the sales of it in the market,” Mohan Krishna Maharjan, spokesperson of Nepal’s Department of Food Technology and Quality Control.
The Centre for Food Safety of the government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region had collected samples of three of MDH’s pre-packaged spice products – ‘Madras Curry Powder’, ‘Sambhar Masala Powder’ and ‘Curry Powder’ and Everest Group’s ‘Fish Curry Masala’ for testing under its routine food surveillance programme when it detected the presence of the said pesticide. In Singapore too, the food regulator found carcinogenic ingredients in the products of both companies, following which authorities have directed the importer of the two brands of spices to initiate a recall of the products. Ethylene oxide is unfit for human consumption and a cancer risk with long exposure.
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