Serbia returns carcinogenic sesame to India
BizLife 27.01.2021 | Beta
The Ministry of Agriculture announced that the shipment of sesame seeds is being returned to India due to contamination with an illegal amount of carcinogenic ethylene oxide, which is why there has been an alert in countries of the European Union for several months.
According to media reports, Croatia and other European countries have been flooded for months with contaminated sesame imported from India, which contains carcinogenic pesticide ethylene oxide, which is why a number of sesame products have been withdrawn from the Croatian market. The incident involving a pesticide ethylene oxide, which was used to treat sesame seeds, has been the subject of the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) among the EU member states
