| Dear
Sirs/Madam, |
| This
is further to our letter of 25th October, 2006 enclosing `Regulation of
export of fresh grapes to the European Union through control of
pesticide/drug residues' for the 2007 grape season. In this connection, it
has been decided to make the following modifications based on the
discussions with the industry and other concerned stakeholders : |
| 1 |
The modified Annexures - 7 & 11 along with updated
MRL values required to be followed
during the 2007 grape season are enclosed. |
| 2. |
The modified Annexure - 14 with the following major
amendments required to be followed
during the 2007 grape season is enclosed : |
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- The approved chemists will stack-seal
the consignment after inspection in the cold store. The temperature in
cold store should be maintained in the range of 0-1oC and Relative
Humidity (RH) in the range of 90-95%. This has been added at para
9 of II - Procedure for obtaining Certificate of Agmark Grading (CAG)
for export.
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- Each CAG will carry a validity date
which shall be 15 days from the date of issue. This has been added
at para 12 of II - Procedure for obtaining Certificate of
Agmark Grading (CAG) for export.
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- There is a minor modification in the
para at the end of ANNEX - E.
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| 3. |
The following additions are made in Para 7.4 (Procedure
for issue of phyto sanitary certificates) of the main RMP document :
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xii)
The PSC officials shall verify from the data logger equipment attached to
the cold store that the consignment has been maintained in the cold store
in the temperature range of 0-1oC and Relative Humidity (RH) of 90-95%. |
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xiii)
The PSC officials shall also verify the stack-seal made by the Agmark
inspecting officials of the laboratory before issue of PSC and stuffing of
the consignment into the container. |
| 4. |
Based on the
representation made by the representatives of laboratories with regard to
increasing the testing charges, a meeting was held at NRC Grapes, Pune on
28th December, 2007 under the chairmanship of Director, National Referral
Laboratory. It was observed that the list of the pesticides to be
monitored has been expanded from 81 in the last season to 90 in the
current season, because of which, the laboratories are required to incur
more expenditure towards the procurement of the certified reference
materials (CRM); they are analyzing all the samples in duplicate to
confirm their results; the recurrent expenditure has increased in terms of
the cost of solvents for extraction and chromatographic analysis,
manpower, electricity charges, etc.; and, they have expanded their
analytical instrumentation facilities to give better output in terms of
quality and efficiency. Keeping these aspects and the need to maintain
credibility of the testing, it was decided that the grape testing charges
for the 2007 season would be retained at Rs.7,000/- per sample as
applicable during the previous years. APEDA's financial assistance would,
therefore, be restricted to Rs.3,500/- for the first sample of a grape
plot. |
| The
above amendments have also been hosted on the APEDA website. |
| With
Best Wishes for the New Year, |
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| S.
Dave |
| Director
- APEDA |
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| Revised Annexure 7 |
Revised
Annexure 11 |
Revised Annexure - 14 |