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Indians using pesticide in fruits and vegetables and not a single regret from indians. Only chest thumping on getting caught with criminal act. This is shining example of secular and democratic india.
At least read the news properly before commenting. Don't make a fool out of yourself in every thread.
I have read it. Dont run your mouth when there is defense. This is not first time harmful and deadly ingredients found in indian products. Glass particle was found in indian made drugs.
Generic Lipitor recalled after glass particles found | Fox News
UK mein mazdoori kar rha hai
Oh yeah, so you are dumb enough to not know the difference between pest and pesticide? And silly enough to deviate away from the topic at the first sign of rebuttal. Fine example of Bangladeshi education - Lack of manners and lack of insight to boot.
Are all Bangladeshis as dense as you between their ears? God help Bangladesh if it's educated folks cannot differentiate between pests and pesticides.Here are news for chest thumping indians.
Pesticide residue found in vegetables in Trivandrum
T. Nandakumar
All the heavily contaminated vegetables showed the presence of multiple pesticides, indicating a dangerous trend among farmers.
Going vegetarian may not be a good idea yet if you buy your greens from the open market. Dangerous levels of pesticide residue have been detected in samples of five commonly used vegetables available at sales outlets in Thiruvananthapuram and Kasaragod.
Curry leaf, mint leaf, green chilly, big chilly, and long beans are the most contaminated (exceeding the maximum residue limit prescribed by the Food Safety and Standard Authority of India and the European Union), while the pesticide residue in red amaranthus, coriander leaves, beans, salad cucumber, and red capsicum is below the permissible limit.
Pesticide residue found in vegetables in Trivandrum - The Hindu
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India: High pesticide content in vegetables found in local markets
There is fresh evidence of the undesirable extent of pesticide content in vegetables available across markets in Kerala. A report prepared by the Food Quality Monitoring Laboratory under the Council for Food Research and Development (CFRD) indicates presence of pesticides that has rendered several lots of vegetables unfit for human consumption.
Forty-four lots of vegetables collected from the markets in December were analysed for presence of organo chloro pesticides at the laboratory, the report accessed by The Hindu shows. Ten samples contained organo chloro residue. Of these, five samples had residue above permissible limits, which meant they were unfit for human consumption.
The analytical data showed that big onions collected from the open market at Neyyattinkara contained 0.055 ppm (parts per million) of Alpha BHC, 0.03 ppm of Delta BHC, and 0.225 ppm of Heptachlor. Cucumber collected from a trading outlet at Perumbavoor contained 0.045 ppm of Endrin Aldehyde and 0.07 ppm of endosulfan. Long beans taken from the same outlet at Perumbavoor had 0.005 ppm of Alpha BHC, 0.025 ppm of Gamma BHC, 0.015 ppm of Beta BHC, 0.035 ppm of PP DDE, 0.045 ppm of PP DDD, and 0.09 ppm of Endrin Aldehyde. Carrot samples collected from the open market at Kottayam had 0.02 ppm of Beta BHC, 0.015 ppm of HeptEpoxide, and 0.06 ppm of b-Endosulfan.
India: High pesticide content in vegetables found in local markets
Traces of pesticide in fruits, veggies
Neha Madaan,TNN | Mar 5, 2014, 07.24 AM IST
PUNE: The advice to 'watch what you eat' may no longer apply only to the calorie conscious, with a recent study finding copious quantities of pesticide residue in fruits and vegetables. Of the 345 samples they tested, researchers found pesticide residue in 96 samples.
The vegetable samples were collected from local vendors and shops from different parts of Pune and were tested from April 2013 to January 2014. Some samples were found to have residues of banned pesticides such as Chlordane, Carbofuron, Captafol and DDT.
An official from the National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL) accredited Pesticide Residue Testing Laboratory, Pune (PRTL), which carried out the research, told TOI that pesticides were found in vegetables such as bitter gourd, bottle gourd, brinjal, capsicum, cabbage, cauliflower, cucumber and tomatoes and raisins.
Traces of pesticide in fruits, veggies - The Times of India
Up to 18 pesticides found in vegetables you buy (in India)
HYDERABAD: If the adage ‘you are what you eat’ is true, Hyderabadis stand the risk of exposure to lethal pesticides in the vegetables they consume. A study carried out by the National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) has found that pesticide residues in some of the vegetables and fruits sold at Rythu Bazaars or by street vendors are above the internationally stipulated maximum residual levels (MRL).
Green grapes and okra (lady’s finger) are the most contaminated. The NIN study analyzed fruits and vegetables sold by Rythu Bazars and street vendors in five zones in Hyderabad: Erragadda, Kukatpally, Mehdipatnam, Falaknuma and Lal Bahadur Nagar. It assessed residual pesticide levels in egg plant (brinjal), cauliflower, okra, tomato and chilli among vegetables, and grapes and apples among fruits.
The study found that green grapes, for instance, had residues of 18 pesticides, of which five were present in all the samples analyzed. The mean concentration of imidacloprid— a pesticide rated by WHO as moderately toxic to mammals— in green grapes was found to be 0.702 mg per kg whereas the acceptable MRL for spraying it is 1 mg per kg. Among the vegetables studied, okra too registered the presence of 18 pesticides of which 11 were present in all samples.
The study, reported in the journal Food Research International, also found that pesticide residue levels were higher than those reported by similar studies published earlier. The concentration of organophosphates was found to be especially high in the vegetable samples.
“This class of pesticides can cause neurotoxicity upon prolonged exposure which would result from consumption over some 20 years,” said Dr S N Sinha of NIN’s Food and Drug Toxicology Research Centre, who conducted the studies.
The main reason for the high residue levels is the unregulated use of pesticides by farmers who have no guidance on the permissible limits, says Dr Sinha.
India does not have in place a protocol of MRLs for all the pesticides used by farmers. So far, MRLs have been set for only 185 of the 815 molecules included in the schedule to the Insecticide Act, 1968. The study therefore relies on limits set by the Food and Agriculture Organization and World Health Organization (WHO).
“There are several banned pesticides farmers continue to use as they are unaware of proper limits. Further, farmers rely on information given by unqualified retailers on the choice of pesticides and their dosage,” said Dr Sinha.
Up to 18 pesticides found in vegetables you buy - IBNLive
Prices of mangoes have crashed in India due to the ban. I can now eat Alphonsos to my heart's content!!Damn all these rules and regulations
I want some Pakistani mangoes now....
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