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A recent study reveals alarming levels of lead in turmeric sold in India, Nepal, and Pakistan, with some samples far exceeding the safe limit set by India's FSSAI.. High levels of lead have been found in various samples of turmeric sold in India, Nepal and Pakistan, according to a recent study...
India's Food Safety and Standards Authority (FSSAI) sets the maximum allowable lead content in turmeric at 10 g/g...
The study, published in Science of The Total Environment, analysed turmeric from 23 cities across India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Nepal, revealing that about 14% of samples exceeded lead concentrations of 2 g/g...
Turmeric lead levels exceeded 10 g/g from seven cities in total: Patna, Guwahati, and Chennai in India, Kathmandu in Nepal, and Karachi, Islamabad, and Peshawar in Pakistan...
"Given the overwhelmingly elevated lead levels in turmeric from these locations, urgent action is needed to halt the practice of lead chromate addition in the turmeric supply chain," the researchers wrote in the study...
