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8/6/10

Food Industry: - New Zealand - Pesticide Residues In Food : Worst Ever

The Food Safety Authority's latest pesticide residue results are a nightmare: they are the worst results I have ever seen," said Dr Meriel Watts of Pesticide Action Network Aotearoa New Zealand.

"For a start, fully 94% of the samples of fruit and vegetables contained residues - including all of the oranges, grapes, bok choi, and nectarines. Then there are endosulfan residues in 11 out of 23 cucumber samples: either this is illegal use of a banned insecticide or the cucumbers have been imported from Australia. And 9 out of 24 bok and pak choi samples contained illegal levels of chlorothalonil."

Endosulfan is a highly toxic organochlorine insecticide that has been banned in at least 65 countries, the most recent being USA and Brazil.

For more: Pesticide Residues In Food : Worst Ever | Voxy.co.nz

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