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Decision on allowing blending of oil favours big players: Edible oil assn
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Tuesday, 01 June, 2021, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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Ashwani Maindola, New Delhi
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The Edible Oil Traders’ Association of India has criticised the Union Government’s decision of allowing blending of edible oil.
The decision allows the authorised packers to blend two edible oils under certain conditions.
Shankar Thakkar, president of the Edible Oil Traders’ Association of India, has said that the decision is against small traders and only big players were allowed to sell the blended oil. He said that the decision was an eye-wash.
“On one hand, the Government is allowing the blending of edible oil while on the other, cases were filed against small traders for the same thing,” he pointed out.
He added that the Government has no procedures to test such blended oils. There is no way the percentages claimed can be found out. This decision would help only the big players and therefore such a decision should be withdrawn by the Government, he said.
Recently the Ministry of Agriculture issued a gazette notification to amend the Agmark Act to include the provisions made by the FSSAI for blended edible oil, which says that the blended oil now will be called as multi-sourced edible oil.
The rules by the agri ministry were called the Multi Source Edible Vegetable Oils Grading and Marking Rules, 2021. After these rules, the packers will have to update the labelling of the packs.
According to the gazette, Multi Source Edible Vegetable Oil shall be an admixture of any two refined edible vegetable oils except mustard oil, where the proportion of any of the refined edible vegetable oils by weight used shall not be less than 20 per cent and the individual constituent oil used in the blend shall be of such quality which conforms to the natural characteristics and the quality as prescribed in Food Safety and Standards Regulations and Agmark.
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