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Pesticides found in Thai fruit and vegetables.
Posted: Thu May 05, 2016 12:09 am
by Anchor Moy
At least in Thailand they are testing the produce, and they have some idea about the dangers of pesticides. I've heard a lot about Vietnamese produce being full of pesticides, but I'm fairly sure that the situation is the same or worse in Cambodia where there is little monitoring. I suspect that there are quite a few cases of pesticide poisoning that are put down to other causes.
57% of Q mark rated fruits, vegetables fail toxic chemical residue tests after samples sent to UK for testing. Expensive retailers do little better than wet markets.
More than half of the vegetables and fruits awarded the government’s "Q mark" for quality were found to have harmful pesticide residue levels, according to a recent food safety study...
VEGETABLES & FRUITS: THE SAFE & UNSAFE
In breakdown, 100% of red chilli had harmful residues exceeding the standards, followed by basil and long beans (66.7%), Chinese kale (55.6%), Chinese cabbages (33.3%), morning glory (22.2%), tomatoes and cucumbers 11.1%.
However, 100% of the regular cabbage samples were free from harmful residues.
For the fruits, 100% of tested oranges and guava were contaminated with harmful residues exceeding the standards.
Dragon fruit (71.4%), papayas (66.7%) and nam dokmai mangoes (44.4%) were also found to have high residue levels.
Watermelon was free of harmful residues, in line with previous test results done by Mahidol University in 2014.
http://www.bangkokpost.com/learning/lea ... vt-quality
I'm really surprised about the chillis being so full of pesticides though. I wouldn't have thought that they would attract pests. On the contrary, where I've seen them planted amongst other plants, I thought this was a natural way to deter pests. Anyone know about this ?
Re: Pesticides found in Thai fruit and vegetables.
Posted: Thu May 05, 2016 12:19 am
by John Bingham
One major problem in Cambodia has been that pesticides that have used in neighboring countries and have been subsequently banned there often end up here. Farmers use these products with little regard for safety procedures, and often use inappropriately high doses, mainly because they can't read the foreign language instructions. If this is going on in relatively developed Thailand, you can imagine what's going on here or in Vietnam, where many of our vegetables are grown.
It's funny how many people think that everything here is grown simply and organically, whereas the truth is often far from that.
Re: Pesticides found in Thai fruit and vegetables.
Posted: Thu May 05, 2016 9:52 am
by ExPenhMan
What has been discovered is that Chinese vegetables are cheaper to sell in VN than the Viets' own veg and the Chinese stuff comes with loads of pesticide residue. It's so bad in VN that people have taken to growing their own vegetables, in China too. Throw in the fish horror. Refrigerated trucks were caught buying up dead fish along the coast after the Formosa Steel plant up the coast unleashed deadly chemicals when flushing pipes into the sea. Frankly, eating anything in Vietnam is a scary proposition.
Re: Pesticides found in Thai fruit and vegetables.
Posted: Thu May 05, 2016 10:04 am
by bolueeleh
ExPenhMan wrote:What has been discovered is that Chinese vegetables are cheaper to sell in VN than the Viets' own veg and the Chinese stuff comes with loads of pesticide residue. It's so bad in VN that people have taken to growing their own vegetables, in China too. Throw in the fish horror. Refrigerated trucks were caught buying up dead fish along the coast after the Formosa Steel plant up the coast unleashed deadly chemicals when flushing pipes into the sea. Frankly, eating anything in Vietnam is a scary proposition.
i just came back from ho chi minh 4 days ago, its not that bad, im still here spouting crap into the virtual world
Re: Pesticides found in Thai fruit and vegetables.
Posted: Thu May 05, 2016 10:28 am
by hanno
bolueeleh wrote:ExPenhMan wrote:What has been discovered is that Chinese vegetables are cheaper to sell in VN than the Viets' own veg and the Chinese stuff comes with loads of pesticide residue. It's so bad in VN that people have taken to growing their own vegetables, in China too. Throw in the fish horror. Refrigerated trucks were caught buying up dead fish along the coast after the Formosa Steel plant up the coast unleashed deadly chemicals when flushing pipes into the sea. Frankly, eating anything in Vietnam is a scary proposition.
i just came back from ho chi minh 4 days ago, its not that bad, im still here spouting crap into the virtual world
I came to Vietnam 21 years ago and one of the first things I did was to stop thinking about what I eat as otherwise I wouldn't....
Re: Pesticides found in Thai fruit and vegetables.
Posted: Thu May 05, 2016 10:33 am
by SinnSisamouth
if I eat food and it taste shit i spit it out.
if it tastes like an apple/cucumber/kale i will eat it
its a simple rule I live by
Re: Pesticides found in Thai fruit and vegetables.
Posted: Thu May 05, 2016 10:40 am
by bolueeleh
hanno wrote:bolueeleh wrote:ExPenhMan wrote:What has been discovered is that Chinese vegetables are cheaper to sell in VN than the Viets' own veg and the Chinese stuff comes with loads of pesticide residue. It's so bad in VN that people have taken to growing their own vegetables, in China too. Throw in the fish horror. Refrigerated trucks were caught buying up dead fish along the coast after the Formosa Steel plant up the coast unleashed deadly chemicals when flushing pipes into the sea. Frankly, eating anything in Vietnam is a scary proposition.
i just came back from ho chi minh 4 days ago, its not that bad, im still here spouting crap into the virtual world
I came to Vietnam 21 years ago and one of the first things I did was to stop thinking about what I eat as otherwise I wouldn't....
yep actually vietnamese cuisine is quite healthy, it always comes with a heap of greens, but some stalls use again those that the customer did not eat, but again most stalls rinse the greens again before serving them, except for those communal greens which have been sitting there in the middle of the long table for the whole afternoon and countless hands picking through it it
Re: Pesticides found in Thai fruit and vegetables.
Posted: Fri May 06, 2016 5:45 am
by willyhilly
The Cambodian government announced years ago that they would legislate to require Khmer script on pesticides and herbicides. They must have forgotten about that.
Re: Pesticides found in Thai fruit and vegetables.
Posted: Fri May 06, 2016 5:11 pm
by obelisks
SinnSisamouth wrote:if I eat food and it taste shit i spit it out.
if it tastes like an apple/cucumber/kale i will eat it
its a simple rule I live by
2 weeks ago they showed a documentary of people in Fukishima growing rice and this is only five years after the disaster. (Bear in mind they are still finding out how dangerous Chernobyl still is today 36 years after that disaster).
Anyway there they were these silly fucking idiots eating this rice and going ooohh yummy to each other and saying that it tasted perfectly fine as they were shovelling it into their mouths. I mean how fucking dumb can you get??
Re: Pesticides found in Thai fruit and vegetables.
Posted: Fri May 06, 2016 5:58 pm
by John Bingham
SinnSisamouth wrote:if I eat food and it taste shit i spit it out.
if it tastes like an apple/cucumber/kale i will eat it
its a simple rule I live by
I'd imagine you must be totally emaciated then?