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MDH, a popular Indian spice brand, on Saturday rejected the allegations of its products containing a cancer-causing pesticide, saying that the claims are baseless, untrue and lack any substantiating evidence.m)..
The brand's statement comes days after Hong Kong and Singapore banned the sale of the two Indian spice brands in their countries - MDH and Everest, claiming that they detected the presence of carcinogenic pesticide ethylene oxide in several spice mixes..
The allegations of the presence of ethylene oxide in our products is untrue and lack any substantiating evidence...Additionally, MDH has not received any communication from regulatory authorities of Singapore or Hong Kong..
The Centre For Food Safety of the government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region said that they detected the presence of carcinogenic pesticide ethylene oxide in several spice mixes of the two spice brands - MDH and Everest..
In a notice issued by the Hong Kong authorities, it was mentioned that the country's food regulator collected samples of three of MDH's pre-packaged spice products - 'Madras Curry Powder', 'Sambhar Masala Powder' and Curry Powder; and Everest Group's 'Fish Curry Masala' for testing under its routine food surveillance programme when it detected the presence of the pesticide..
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