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Maximum Residual Level test mandatory before tea export |
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January 28, 2001
Moulavi Bazar-- (UNB) - Laboratory test of Bangladeshi tea would be mandatory before export for determining the permissible level of pesticides in the item. Bangladesh Tea Research Institute (BTRI) sources said it has undertaken programme to set up a laboratory for testing Maximum Residual Level (MRL) as the buyers are pressurizing to determine the MRL level in the exported tea. Scientist at an international conference in Calcutta in 1993 said the international buyers, including those from the EU, would not buy Bangladeshi tea leaves with excessive MRL. Officials said a ‘Pesticide Residual Laboratory’ is being set up inside the BRTI to test RML. International tender quotation has already been floated for procuring the equipment for the proposed laboratory. European Commission is funding the laboratory project. Two chief scientific officers of the institute have already been trained on ‘Residual Analysis’ from ‘Natural Resources Institute’ of England. Sources said, the laboratory would start functioning from June 2002. Considering the long-lasting poisonous effect, uses of some pesticides were banned internationally. The uses of chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticides like heptachlor, DDT, di-endrine and endrine were banned in the tea gardens in Bangladesh but some tea gardens are using these collecting through smuggling. To maintain the goodwill of Bangladeshi tea in the international market, the BTRI will make it mandatory to test MRL of tea before export. |