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18. Ld. Counsel has showed a bottle containing Dhara refined vegetable oil ie refined mustard oil in which the ingredients of Dhara refined vegetable oil are given as refined mustard oil, permitted anti oxidant (Tertiary butylhydroquinone : 0.015%) Free from Argemone oil.

19. On going through the standards for the mustard oil I find that before 2004 use of synthetic tocopherols as food additives in edible oils and fats was prohibited. By the notification 2004 natural and synthetic tocopherols are permitted to be used in edible oils and fats. The CFL report indicated the colour as yellow oil soluble colour in the sample commodity. Thus, the possibility of synthetic tocopherol in the sample commodity cannot be ruled out. In the present case the sample was taken in the year 2003 before the notification came into force.