据印度食品标准局（FSSI）消息，2018年8月16日，印度食品标准局根据2006年《食品安全和标准法》第16 （ 5 ）节发布关于允许使用乙烯利人工催熟水果的指令。
食品经营者（ FBOs ）可以使用乙烯利作为人工催熟水果的乙烯气体来源。可以使用的乙烯利需为袋装粉末状，并且这些小袋不能与水果直接接触。除此之外，印度最高食品监管机构还为贸易商发布了一份关于人工成熟水果的详细指导说明。
部分原文报道如下：
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 92 of Food Safety and StandardsAct, 2006（34 of 2006）， the Food Safety and Standards authority of India has framed the Food Safety and Standards（Prohibition and Restrictions on Sales）Second Amendment egulations, 2016 relating to use of ethylene gas for artificial ripening of fruits and the same was uploaded on website on 30.08.2016
2. Several representations have been received at FSSAI regarding clarification on use of ethephon as source of ethylene gas for artificial ripening of fruits. The issue was examined and it is clarified that ethephon in powder form may also be used as a source of ethylene gas provided that it shall be packed in sachets and these sachets containing ethephon in powder form shall not come in direct contact with fruits.
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