Hong Kong Bans Everest, MDH Spice Mixes Over Pesticide Find

The Hong Kong government has prohibited the sale of four products from Indian companies MDH Pvt. and Everest Food Products Pvt. within its borders.

The Food and Environmental Hygiene Department’s Centre for Food Safety (CFS) sent a news release stating that “samples of several kinds of prepackage spice mix products were find to contain a pesticide, ethylene oxide.” The impact products should not be consume by the general population. In a press release date April 5, it was further recommend that the trade cease using or selling any impact products immediately.

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Singapore Joins Hong Kong in Recall of Indian Spice Products

These goods include the Madras curry powder from MDH, the fish curry masala from Everest, and the mixed masala powders for sambhar and curry. Everest’s fish curry masala has also been order to be recall by the Singapore Food Agency (SFA), citing the presence of ethylene oxide at a level that renders the product unfit for human consumption.

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The Singapore Food Agency (SFA) has ordered the importer, Sp Muthiah & Sons Pte. Ltd., to recall the products since they were imported into Singapore. Press release: “The recall is still in progress.

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According to the CFS, samples were gather from three retail locations in Tsim Sha Tsui, respectively, for analysis as part of its regular Food Surveillance Programme. According to the test results, ethylene oxide, a pesticide, was present in the samples. The merchants in question have been notified by the CFS of the abnormalities and given instructions to cease sales and remove the impacted products from the shelves, according to the statement.

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Hong Kong Enforces Strict Regulations on Pesticide Residue in Food

Group 1 carcinogen status for ethylene oxide has been assign by the International Agency for Research on Cancer. A food for human consumption containing pesticide residue may only be market if eating of the food is not hazardous or detrimental to health, according to the Pesticide Residues in Food Regulation (Cap. 132CM), it continued.