Many protective agents in Asian vegetables
Imported vegetables from Asian shops sometimes have too many pesticide residues. Research has been carried out into this in the Swiss city of Basel, with more than one third of the tested samples being rejected. Half of the total of 32 samples were descended from Thailand, one fourth came from Vietnam.
Various types of vegetables such as water spinach, okra, beans, bok choy and sopropo were investigated. Twelve samples (38 percent) exceeded the maximum permitted values. Only one quarter of the samples were free of plant protection product residues. The other samples showed an excessive amount of up to three substances.
In total, 39 different active substances of plant protection products on the vegetables were identified. Most of the different species were found on Thai celery and Indian curry leaves, namely nine pieces. The most commonly found substance is Carbendazim, which was found in nine samples. In two of these samples the value was too high.
The situation has improved slightly compared to last year. Then the same study was conducted and 50 percent of the samples showed more pesticide residues than the maximum permitted values. But the current value of 38 percent is still unacceptably high.
For European vegetables, this is on average only around six percent. The failing importers (often the shop owners themselves) have now been called to order and some have been reported.
Source: AGF
When I wrote here that the orange juice sold on the street is also not completely pure due to the juices that come out of the (sprayed) peel, you didn't want to post it. And now all of a sudden this editorial?
I'm not making it up, I live among the Thai who teach me all kinds of things and tell me about Thailand. That is something completely different from wanting to be the pub tiger in Pattaya.
@ That's pretty simple Nok. It was off topic. If you respond to the topic, we will post it, otherwise not.
Yes was about tasty fruit drinks that you can buy along the road. I think the reaction that the orange juice is not super healthy fits perfectly with that, but opinions differ apparently. Mai pen lai.
That the monkeys took my wife's lunch when she walked to school is also not part of the subject, but it is fun / educational to read, right?
Well, you have to get into the mind (or logic) of the editors to see whether or not something is on topic.
Seems impossible to me, I'll stick to the subjectivity of the editors...
There are a number of commenters who owe the necessary subjectivity from us to themselves. That's where you belong with Hansy.
Maybe not quite fitting with the story, but I remember that Thailand also had an export ban on farmed shrimp. Bread from 7-11 hardly molds in that humid climate, and you can safely let the milk go past the date for a while.
Plant protection product is a typical euphemistic term for pesticides. But that word sounds so negative…
Plant protection product is a nice word for agricultural poison, isn't it?
or not?
Will also be one of the reasons that the average age of expats is average
lower than in their own country.
Cor.
Normally I try to buy as much as possible from the local population in order to stimulate the economy and to make people earn some extra money. But since I moved to Isaan and have been active in agriculture there for 2 years, I have stopped with buying vegetables from the locals, I've seen it enough how there was spraying in the morning, harvesting in the afternoon and the fruits and vegetables in the evening were already offered at the local markets without any control, so from now on I'm already buying my fruit and vegetables in the tesco, big c or other supermarkets where there is much better and more thorough inspection, but it will not be completely safe there either, in my opinion. But you have to be careful on those local markets, there is no control and everything has to be sold over the counter because they have to earn their money.
Two old posts:
EU threatens import ban for Thai vegetables
January 15, 2011 – The European Union threatens to impose an import ban on 16 types of vegetables from Thailand. Thai exporters and Thai restaurants on the continent fear the worst if essential ingredients for Thai cuisine are banned, such as basil, chilli and capsicum peppers, eggplants, bitter gourd and parsley, among others. They contain too many traces of insect and chemical contamination. The Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives will carry out stricter quality controls on the export of the 16 vegetables to prevent the import ban. Because if this were to be set, it would be very difficult to get it removed again. It is rather distressing that Thailand presents itself as 'Kitchen of the World' in campaigns to promote Thai food.
Thai vegetable export threatened by excessive pesticide use
January 26, 2011 – Thai vegetable exports are under serious threat due to the excessive use of pesticides. In twelve years, the import of pesticides has increased from 42.089 tons to 137.594 tons. Thailand should quickly ban pesticides banned elsewhere and limit the number of permitted pesticides (currently 27.126 different brands), researchers say due to concerns about an impending import ban by the European Union. The pesticides that should be banned and not used in other countries are carbofuran, dicrotophos, methomyl and EPN.
at the Rimping supermarkets in Chiang Mai you can buy bottles with poison removal liquid 500 cl. I forgot the name, but ask in the store.
I also bought that stuff in New-York and it is amazing that the water where you leave the tomatoes for a few hours even becomes slimy….
so pay attention
a reason to grow some vegetables yourself if possible…
I try to grow all kinds of things in the garden, but the vermin makes it almost impossible.
Had planted expensive tomato seeds from Holland in worm manure, they worked but very small tomatoes arrived. The plants also did not look healthy and eventually died.
Now have mango, seedless lime, orange, tangerine, pomelo, mandarin, green lemon, but they don't all do equally well. I spray them with biological insecticides otherwise the aphids always beat me to it.
There is now a gecko with a very long tail in the flowers of the mango (not a gecko by the way) and it catches the flies that come to the blossom. I keep chasing him away because he can damage the blossom but he keeps coming back.
It is almost impossible to grow vegetables without insecticides. There is therefore plenty of supply in the wholesalers for growers, but I will not start it. Fungi are also very threatening to plants here in the tropics, you can also spray against them if you have to live off them.
I also have the house sprayed against termites 6x a year. I recently wrote down what they spray, but I don't even want to know actually. Don't have any ants now (after the flood) and not a single animal still lives in this house. At the neighbors, the termites have eaten a door frame, the stairs (very hard wood) (attempted) and then had to be sprayed for 50.000 baht to get them away.
yes Nok, it is not really easy to grow vegetables without poison. To start with, I also made the mistake of bringing seeds from the south of France, I come from there and thought it is hot here, so it should also be possible in Thailand , well forget it .
I now have an attempt on the way with Thai seed, and that is not really going very well.
for lemons it is quickly too wet in the rainy season, pot culture is best.
I now regularly buy vegetables from the Hill tribes on the street and put them in water for 2 hours with some of that stuff from Rimping, the label is gone that's why I don't remember the name, and here too the water turns into a cloudy substance, but no slime like in NY.
so they use other pesticides here.
but considerable use is clear, friend has Longan nursery and spraying is not allowed up to 50 meters from the house, but the mess is on the fruits!
and you eat it nicely….
I regularly buy organic lettuce, for example. But what do you buy? really no idea.
clean everything well, also a problem is the flavor enrichment agent MSG in Dutch Ve tsin which is used almost everywhere here, which causes high blood pressure and heart problems, so also pay attention to that when shopping, buy MSG-free products !
good luck with your garden!
Flavor and fragrance enhancer in Thailand is called ashinomoto (Japanese) which is Vetsin in Indonesia.
Chemically, yes, we use it every day. If you don't use it, you breathe it in here.
Pesticides are widely used. In the Netherlands, even by companies that claim not to do so. If you don't do that, you will never get a decent harvest.
What I heard from an agricultural engineer. The dogs don't like bread.
Unfortunately here too: If I sow above, plant everything, but watch out the insects try to kill everything, yes everything. Without spraying it will never work.
MSG is also used almost everywhere in Dutch products in the Netherlands. Known as E 621 wouldn't know how to recognize that zut in thailand on the packaging.
Vetsin is also used to give meat a red color. Used a lot here unchecked. With too much (I don't know how much) it is seriously carcinogenic.
Cor.
Recently bought a cauliflower at the market, There were two caterpillars in it. So it will not be sprayed. But rather two caterpillars in the cauliflower than two grams of pesticide.