Hong Kong prohibited the sale of Indian spice brands, MDH Pvt and Everest Food Products Pvt, following the detection of carcinogenic pesticide ethylene oxide in multiple spice blends
Hong Kong's Centre for Food Safety (CFS) stated that it found ethylene oxide in Everest's Fish Curry Masala as well as MDH products, including Madras Curry Powder, Mixed Masala Powder and Sambhar Masala.
The CFS said it collected samples of the four products under its routine food surveillance programme and found the presence of ethylene oxide, which is unsuitable for human consumption.
"The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department announced today that samples of several kinds of prepackaged spice mix products were found to contain a pesticide, ethylene oxide," the CFS said in its statement on April 5.
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