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.
但是，它将继续允许出口 Excel Crop Care、Hindustan Insecticides 和 Coromandel International 持有的 2,698 公升现有库存。澄清延伸自 5 月 13 日的一项裁决，该裁决全面禁止活性物质。随后，应印度农药制造商和配方设计师协会 PMFAI 的要求，为现有库存的出口创建了一个例外。
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.