Women plucking tea leaves in Valparai, Coimbatore.
| Photo Credit: Ganesh Raghunathan
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) is analysing tea samples from numerous components of the nation to determine whether or not these had been adhering to the safety requirements, an official mentioned on Saturday.
The official mentioned that FSSAI, a statutory physique for regulating meals safety, had performed surveys and picked up samples throughout the tea business within the nation that are presently being analysed concerning the degrees of pesticide residues current in them.
“Regarding the tea industry, we have conducted surveys and currently analysing the samples which were collected. We will then present our findings to the industry”, CEO of FSSAI, G. Kamala Vardhana Rao, mentioned.
Mr. Rao mentioned FSSAI will prepare the growers, producers, merchants and all these concerned within the provide chain from tea manufacturing to gross sales.
He mentioned FSSAI has additionally sought the cooperation and assist of Tea Board on this endeavour.
Mr. Rao who additionally met officers of the Tea Board earlier within the day mentioned the meals safety regulator ha elevated the testing strategies on the tea public sale centres.
The meals safety regulator can also be growing its cellular testing laboratories, he mentioned which is 220 at current.