Click to play videoNew Delhi: The Centre on Wednesday admitted that there are pesticide residues in colas produced and sold in India.
Submitting an affidavit in the Supreme Court on the pesticide content issue, the Union Health Ministry said there should be a minimum residual limit of 1 PPB in colas.
The affidavit said the government will set up a committee soon to look into the issue of food safety.
The Health Ministry also told the court that the N K Ganguly Committee had suggested that there are certain pesticides, which have to be monitored for a period for three years
The government had set up the Ganguly Committee to study the issue of pesticide content in colas after Delhi-based NGO Centre for Science and Environment revealed that new tests have detected dangerous level of toxins in colas.
A similar CSE report in 2003 had led to a joint Parliamentary probe into the matter. Four years later, the NGO again went public with the findings of its studies, claiming that soft drinks were still not clean.
It claimed that compared to 2003, Pepsi contained 30 times higher pesticide residue on an average and Coca-Cola contained 27 times higher residue.
The NGO claimed that it found three to five different kinds of pesticide residues in all the 57 samples of 11 soft drink brands that it had collected from 25 different manufacturing plants of Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, spread over 12 states.
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