{"id":22140,"date":"2024-04-04T11:26:21","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T05:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=22140"},"modified":"2025-04-06T17:41:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T12:11:50","slug":"marine-products-export-development-authority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/marine-products-export-development-authority\/","title":{"rendered":"Marine Products Export Development Authority"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Marine Products Export Development Authority:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a\u00a0<strong>statutory body<\/strong>\u00a0entrusted with the primary task of\u00a0<strong>promotion of export of marine products.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>History:\u00a0<\/strong>It was set up\u00a0<strong>by an act of Parliament<\/strong>\u00a0during 1972. The erstwhile Marine Products Export Promotion Council established by the Government of India in September, 1961 was converged into MPEDA on 24th August, 1972.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Functions:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Developing and regulating<\/strong>\u00a0off-shore and\u00a0<strong>deep-sea fishing<\/strong>\u00a0and undertaking measures for the conservation and management of off-shore and deep-sea fisheries;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Registering fishing vessels<\/strong>, processing plants or storage premises for marine products and conveyances used for the transport of marine products; fixing of standards and specifications for marine products for purposes of export;<\/li>\n<li>Regulating the export of marine products; registering of exporters of marine products on payment of such fees as may be prescribed;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It has set up five full-fledged\u00a0<strong>Quality Control Laboratories<\/strong>, at Kochi, Nellore &amp; Bhimavaram, Bhubaneshwar and Porbandar. In addition, fifteen\u00a0<strong>ELISA Screening Laboratories<\/strong>\u00a0set up by MPEDA in the maritime states.<\/li>\n<li>In order to reach out to the exporters in different parts of the Country, it has set up 18 \u2013 Regional \/ Sub Regional Divisions \/ Desk offices.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Headquarter:<\/strong>\u00a0Kochi, Kerala<\/li>\n<li>It has\u00a0<strong>Trade Promotion offices<\/strong>\u00a0at New Delhi, Tokyo and New York.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nodal Ministry:<\/strong>\u00a0Ministry of Commerce and Industry<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Q1: What is the Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) technique?<\/h2>\n<p>It is a technique used to detect antibodies or infectious agents in a sample.Antibodies are made in response to infection and so antibody ELISA testing can indicate whether or not an animal has been in contact with a certain virus. An antigen ELISA can tell whether an animal is infected with a virus by detecting it directly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/india-dismisses-allegations-of-abusive-conditions-at-shrimp-farms\/article68024817.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">India dismisses allegations of abusive conditions at shrimp farms<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marine Products Export Development Authority is a statutory body entrusted with the primary task of promotion of export of marine products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22141,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22140","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}