The Indo-German Cooperation on Agricultural Market Development (AMD) project along with Spice Board of India conducted the Capacity Building Program on EU Regulations for Sampling & Certification of Spices on 6-7 Dec 2024 at Cochin, Kerala, 9-10 Dec 2024 at Unjha, Gujarat and 12-13 Dec 2024 at Mumbai.

In this training program, Mr. Jorg Lickfett, an expert and international trainer specialized in the European spice sampling process, conducted sessions on EU regulations, spice sampling protocols, and demonstrated the sampling procedures.

The key topics covered for the first days of training program were-An overview of EU regulations, analytical requirements, and relevant sampling rules, static vs. dynamic sampling and theoretical sampling protocols.

Second day of the training program focused on the practical learning through industrial visits, and live demonstration of the sampling procedures and requirements.

The training program was attended by 160 participants comprised of exporters, spice board officials, representatives of sampling companies and testing laboratories and Indo-German AMD project staff.