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KOZHIKODE, JUNE 27. The Janata Dal (S) leader, M.P. Veerendrakumar, MP, has appealed to the Centre to implement the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) recommendations on the issue of pesticides in soft drinks. In a statement here today, Mr. Veerendrakumar urged the Centre to reject the recommendations of the Pesticide Residues Sub-Committee of the Union Ministry of Health and Welfare on the issue. He said the decision of the sub-committee to set up another committee for year-long monitoring before deciding on pesticide residue in soft drinks was ``appalling''. ``The decision directly challenges the credentials of the JPC by terming their report unscientific,'' he said. Mr. Veerendrakumar alleged that the sub-committee heard 21 stakeholders, including multi-national majors Pepsico and Coca-Cola, at its last meeting in March 2004, one month after the tabling of the JPC recommendations in Parliament. ``But the sub-committee did not deem it important to hear the Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi, which had tested pesticide residues in soft drinks and had also deposed before the JPC,'' Mr. Veerendrakumar said.
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