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Daily Intake (ADI) and the acute reference dose used for
the national risk assessment and its outcome.
Subjecting
the data and dossier to discussion/debate with he WorkingGroup/
Standing Committee in the EC.
This agenda of action has been taken up by the research
department of the
Tea Board in conjunction with TRA and UPASI-TRI.
TEA
DELEGATION TO PAKISTAN
It's sheer irony that the world's largest tea producer and
the third-largest consumer of the brew have had no trade
relations for the past two years. Political differences
had been the root cause of India and Pakistan shelving tea
trade relations.
All that is past for there has been a meltdown in stance
now, courtesy the |
Indian tea delegation's recent visit to the neighbouring
country organ-ized
by the Indian Tea Association, led by Chairman Mr. Bharat
Bajoria. Pakistan offers a market size of 130 million kgs,
which is particularly CTC-dominated. It may also be mentioned
here that since it is a non-grower nation, Pakistan is fully
dependent on imports for its requirement of tea.
About 65 per cent of the inflows come from Kenya. Hence,
for the Indian
tea industry, it is a very big market very close by. A 14-member
delegation from Kolkata arrived on June 29, 2003 with the
specific purpose of reopening the tea trade channel between
the two countries. And success was defined on July 2, 2003
through the signing of a formal Memorandum of Understanding
between ITA on the one part and
Pakistan Tea Association (PTA) on the other. Executing the
MoU would require the
two associations to facilitate tea trade of a minimum of
a minimum of 10 mkgs
during 2003-04.
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