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Home » News from Thailand » Still many traces of poison on fruits and vegetables in Thailand
Still many traces of poison on fruits and vegetables in Thailand
Posted in News from Thailand
Tags: Fruit, Groente, Agricultural poison, pesticides, Food Safety
The Thai Pesticide Alert Network found pesticide residues in more than half of the samples during an investigation of fruit and vegetables at the end of August. Also in the supposedly safe products with the Q brand. Prohibited toxic substances were found in no less than sixteen types of fruit and vegetables.
Thai-PAN researched fruit and vegetables at popular wholesale markets in Pathum Thani, Nakhon Pathom and Ratchaburi and in various supermarkets. 70,2 percent of the products in supermarkets were contaminated. Among the vegetables, Chinese cabbage was particularly bad. Among the fruit, oranges turned out to be the most contaminated with poison.
The Thai government promotes foods with the 'Q mark' as safe. These would be organic. An earlier study this year found that over 57% of this brand contained pesticides (www.bangkokpost.com/pesticides-in-fruits-vegetables-govt-quality-mark-fails-test). The government then promised improvement, but the test in August this year showed that the situation was even worse: 61,5 percent was contaminated with poison.
Source: Bangkok Post
That's why I grow here as much as possible myself
Q brand safe. Yes Yes. I think it's better to import your fruit and vegetables from the Netherlands or grow it yourself.
To what extent does washing help thoroughly, for example twice? Ok, there will also be some inside the vegetable or fruit, but it is unclear to me how much is on it and how much is in it and whether washing helps much or little.
Washing well helps something but not enough. The problem is that the poison also enters the vegetable itself through the roots.
It is indeed bad here, I have been warning about it for a long time. The problem is that it is almost impossible to buy organic food outside of Bangkok. My solution is fish from the sea, and imported things from Australia and New Zealand.
Where can you buy fruit and vegetables in Bangkok (Sukhumveit area) that have not or hardly been sprayed, because if you cannot trust the Q products, then it will be difficult.
Why surprised?
Everyone knows that Thailand is way behind in all respects.
So I would be surprised if this is true.
The roots of a plant absorb very little pesticides and heavy metals from the soil.
Washing and peeling also helps a lot.
What's left after that: boiling, blanching not only kills all organisms, but also decomposes many organic compounds. For example, all EU inspection services since 1979 have reported 2 (yes… TWO) cases with too high values in canned goods, one of which was an organic product. And that with approximately 75.000 lab tests per year. see https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/rasff-window/portal/?event=SearchForm&cleanSearch=1
Research shows that the commercial canning process not only destroys bacteria that can cause food spoilage, but also can eliminate as much as 99% of the pesticide residues occasionally found in fresh produce. See Colorado State Uni publication. publication of University of Zaragoza, Spain, the US National Food Processors Association reviewed data and see publication of Ghent University, Wageningen Agri-Uni. See also under “canned foods”. (unfortunately, all links are not included)
In Harry's first piece, those EU tests are about canning, so preserves. And let that just not be available in Thailand. Lettuce in a jar, cabbage in a can, etc., I don't think exists. The tests are about normal fruit and vegetables, so fresh.
But the fruit and vegetables for those preserves have been “fresh” before that. So, if the lot was riddled with heavy metals and pesticides, which had penetrated the "fruit" through the roots or through the skin, there would still be a good deal of it left in the preserved contents; even after washing, peeling, blanching and sterilizing.
Years ago, the Keur v Waren-Dordt tested wild blackberries on an industrial estate. Soil pretty polluted, but in the blackberries themselves: NIX.
In total, the EU mainly tests “freshly”, see the EFSA reports. see e.g. http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/press/news/150312
Unfortunately, I have no data from Thailand, only from the EU.
From Thailand I have been buying as a supermarket buyer since 1977 and as an independent importer since 1995, but from export-oriented companies, BRC etc. certified. So contaminants in food is my almost weekly job, because you have to keep them on their toes in SE Asia. “Oh, too small to see”.
Peeling (of tomatoes) reduces the human intake of pesticides by a factor of 1000
And yes… for domestic sales, only the Thai FDA and Buddha check…
So rinse well.
The fraction of imidacloprid ingested by the human population is on average 10(-2) to 10(-6), depending on the time between pesticide application and ingestion, the processing step, and the application method. Model and experimentally derived intake fractions deviated by less than a factor of 2 for both application techniques. Total imidacloprid residues were up to five times higher in plants treated by foliar spray application than by soil irrigation. However, peeling tomatoes treated by spray application reduces the human intake fraction by up to three orders of magnitude. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19036517
Apart from tomatoes, I think there are some more fruits and vegetables. I don't think it's enough to just mention tomato. And maybe peeling a tomato loses essential nutritional values?
Unfortunately, I have not found a scientific publication for all fruits and vegetables. And certainly not what is sold on the local “wetmarkets”. However, this indicates that very many of the residues can be easily removed.
zie https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11052716
Statistical analysis showed that rinsing removed residues for nine of the twelve pesticides studied. Residues of vinclozolin, bifenthrin, and chlorpyrifos were not reduced. The rinsability of a pesticide is not correlated with its water solubility.
of: http://www.fda.gov/Food/FoodborneIllnessContaminants/Pesticides/ucm114958.htm
see google with reduction pesticide residues on fruits by rinsing, washing and you will find enough,
although many are not scientifically based, so a lot of "Truus op Blog" content.
Have you ever looked at lychees, mangoes, etc. on the tree in TH? Fruit is wrapped with paper. In Europe by not doing the wage costs, but in Asia by doing so. This is not done for tree decoration, but to keep the insects away from the fruit in development, instead of spraying. Almost BIO, but ... not certified (against a God's power), so you don't get a setang for it anymore.
And yes, most vitamins are directly under the skin, where they are formed.
So: wash well.
There is a product “St. Andrews Vegetable & Fruit Washing Liquid”, available from major supermarkets (Big C, Tesco, etc.). Leave a squeeze in a container with water, vegetables and/or fruit for a while and then rinse well. Not only does this product remove pesticides and other impurities, but it also improves the taste plus, if your vegetables are a bit wilted (quick in this climate), they will come out fresh and crisp again.