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New norms for packaged water notified
By Our Special Correspondent
NEW DELHI
July 24.
The Health Ministry has finally issued the much-awaited notification prescribing an upper limit for pesticide residue in packaged drinking water. As per the notification, the concentration of pesticide residue in packaged drinking water should be not more than 0.0005 mg a litre, with an extra condition that concentration of residue of any single pesticide should not exceed 0.0001 mg a litre.
It will come into effect only from January 1, 2004 to give producers time to upgrade their manufacturing process to meet the more stringent norms. Under the present standards, it was enough for the manufacturers to ensure that the pesticide content was ``below detectable levels'', and with the techniques employed for quality testing being not too sensitive, water samples with significant concentration of pesticide residue was getting through.
The notification has been in the pipeline since February after a study conducted by an NGO, Centre for Science and Environment, revealed that bottled drinking water sold in the market contained excessive quantities of pesticide residue.
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