| The US Federal Trade
Commission has rejected the request to prevent US-grown rice from being
advertised or represented using the words ‘ basmati’ and ‘ jasmine’. Under
the US Department of Agriculture regulations, basmati and jasmine are included
as examples of 'aromatic rough rice' and are not limited to rice grown
in any particular country .It is claimed that the sale is only as ‘ the
American basmati rice’. It is not known whether the Government of India
has yet IPR protected our basumati variety under the TRIPS compliant ‘
geographic indications’ category.
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