The Supreme Court of India clarified Tuesday the government’s ban on the production of endosulfan by expressly forbidding any further production of the off-patent organochlorine insecticide.
Sin embargo, seguirá permitiendo la exportación de 2.698 kilolitros de las existencias existentes en poder de Excel Crop Care, Hindustan Insecticides y Coromandel International. La aclaración se extiende desde un fallo del 13 de mayo que creó una prohibición total de la sustancia activa. Se creó una excepción posterior para las exportaciones de existencias existentes a solicitud de PMFAI, la Asociación de Fabricantes y Formuladores de Plaguicidas de la India.
According to court documents, the court cautioned against companies that continue to manufacture endosulfan: “It is clarified that the permission for dilution (of the law to allow export of existing stocks) should in no way directly or indirectly be treated as permission to manufacture endosulfan formulation in any form whatsoever or increase its quantity.”
Publicly traded Excel Crop Care’s stock price fell this week following the clarification. The company holds about 1,188 kiloliters of stock of endosulfan formulations.