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Home » Reader question » Reader question: Are there organic shops in Thailand?
Reader question: Are there organic shops in Thailand?
Dear Bloggers,
We have been reading Thailand blog with great pleasure for several months. We are a Dutch couple in our early 60s and spend the winter near Hua Hin every year.
Although we enjoy our stay, we are increasingly questioning food safety in Thailand. We have read several times that Thai farmers use an extreme amount of poison to spray their crops. Often batches of Thai fruit or vegetables are also rejected for import to Europe because they contain too many pesticides.
Hence our question: are there organic shops in Thailand and preferably near Hua Hin.
We are also curious how other readers view this 'problem'?
Best regards,
Arthur family
I would not immediately know where there are organic shops in Thailand, but there are labels that are applied to products and that say something about the origin, cultivation, pesticide, safety, etc. of the product.
Whether those labels really offer a guarantee is another thing (TIT of course).
On this link you can find them as well as the explanation. Maybe it will help you.
http://www.bangkokpost.com/learning/learning-from-news/226657/food-labels-for-food-safety
Agricultural poison is indeed a big problem fueled by wholesalers forcing farmers to purchase seeds and chemicals.
Partly because of this, I moved to Chiang Mai, where there is a much greater awareness of “heath food” among sellers and users (restaurants). A large project, near Chiang Mai (the capital city), founded by the Thai king, produces only “poison and fertilizer free food. Many restaurants in the capital take advantage of this and also sell unsprayed food in a shop.
There is even a place in the north of the province where only food (fruit, vegetables and meat) harvested from the jungle is sold in a large market hall. It couldn't be more pure.
I have never seen such things in other places where I have lived, Bangkok and Chon Buri, and in the many places I have visited, but would like to hear from others what exists in that regard.
Biologically safe products from the royal project are sold under the name Doi Kham and are available nationwide.
We are also concerned about the large amounts of poison used in Thai agriculture and horticulture and curious whether there are shops that sell healthy (organic) products.
So far we haven't found anything like it in either Bangkok or beyond.
There is already a modest small start in Thailand with the cultivation of organic products, but it is mainly a foreign initiative and, as far as we know, not (yet) intended for the Thai market.
In the Dutch nature stores, organic Thai rice and tropical fruits are occasionally offered. But it is on a very modest scale.
As long as the Thai is not consciously involved with organic products, it will remain a search for these products in Thailand.
And if it is offered, you have to be careful whether it is actually organic quality. Commerce is sensitive to counterfeiting. See our AH in the Netherlands with the label “pure and honest” on products. Here too you will be cheated again.
I am very curious about other experiences.
And you thought that in TH the “organic” offer DOES comply with EU 2092/91 = organic law? Or that only bio / eco / etc is stated on the label?
NB: the fruit and vegetables that are rejected in the EU have those pesticides on the OUTSIDE, so rinse well and you will no longer be bothered by it.
What I'm much more concerned about: rice stored moist will get mold (turns green). That fungus produces a secretion product: aflatoxin. That is IN the rice, cannot be seen, smelled, tasted, etc. and is impossible to get out.
In the EU a maximum of 4 ppb applies, in TH 30 ppb. Still little happens to you, but.. in the EU we eat 1.2 kg per head per year, in TH 60 kg/hfd/yr or a theoretical max of 7.5 x 50 = 375 x as much.
And yet the NVWA (inspection service) does not issue a travel warning. ( or are the EU values only to protect the rice farmers in It and Sp ? )
My experience as a food buyer from TH since 1977: that poison story is not too bad, because many farmers simply do not have the money to spray a lot.
And.. every year just a small food contamination, and then I'm immune again.
As a Dr. Ir nutrition tech from a large NL-food company summarized it, when she had seen TH 2 wk: I am paid to keep the EU food laws up, NOT to prevent three quarters of the population from dying if we do not eat for 3 months. have electricity”.
What nonsense,
Some agricultural toxic residues have indeed been absorbed by pans, but the greater part is indeed on the outside and is removed by rinsing with water. However, for some agricultural residues this is not sufficient and washing with soap is necessary. In health food stores in the Netherlands, liquid soap is sold that can be used without danger.
As for the EU standard for alpha toxin, I think that it is based on potential danger (carcinogen) and not on domestic market protection. Despite your responsibility in the past, you show little knowledge.
And then how can you become immune to agricultural poison (residues)
Minor infections by eating small amounts of (bad) bacteria, yes that's true. Every child can relate to that. As babies we build up our immune system, and food poisoning (a bacterial or amoeba infection) also makes you immune to that in the long run.
But agricultural chemicals, no you can't build up an immunity against them.
And then that so-called comment from the so-called Dr. Ir, of course, and certainly here, hits like the well-known pincers on a pig. Please come here, guys, level up a bit.
From Bangkok Post of July 13, 2012
Bangkok Post is very concerned about food safety. Thailand imports more than 100.000 tons of chemical insecticides and pesticides annually at a cost of 18 billion baht. In the July 13 editorial, she points out that fruits and vegetables for sale at local markets often contain too high a concentration of chemicals.
Most recently, the Foundation for Consumers reported that it had found traces of two cancer-causing pesticides on several vegetables sold in large supermarkets in Bangkok. The foundation has called on the Ministry of Agriculture to ban and no longer register the use of four pesticides: methomyl, carbofuran, dicrothopos and EPN.
According to the newspaper, pesticide poisoning is widespread. The Health Systems Research Institute estimates that 200.000 to 400.000 people fall ill each year as a result. And the paper links the dramatic rise in agrochemical use to the rise in cancer, diabetes and high blood pressure.
Thailand reacted quickly when the EU threatened to ban imports because vegetables from Thailand contain too high concentrations of toxic residues. Prompt measures were taken to prevent a ban. But such a strict approach is lacking at home, the newspaper cynically states.
in Bangkok for sure, I know there is a shop on Sukhumvit about at soi 15, but that is something to find out.
think that in the area where many foreigners live there is something to be found.
Please take a look at this website, it is in Thai. http://www.goldenplace.co.th
This is a website about the king's project, here you can find where there are shops in Hua Hin where they sell unsprayed products. In the top row, go to the sixth box from the left, in the page that then appears, in the left column, go to the seventh box from the top. You will then receive a map of Hua Hin where there are two shops.
Yes, in Thailand there are indeed several shops that only sell organic and the control is supervised by the king's family.
There is also such a store in Pattaya and it is located across the street from the Friendship supermarket on the south Pattaya road.
If you really want to be sure, grow fruit and vegetables yourself, that was at least what I and my wife did in Thailand at the time, but then you always have the wind and other natural elements that influence the process, but I think this method is the most sure if you want real bio.
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