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New Safeguards Against Health-risk Vegetables

2001/03/01

Safeguards aimed at monitoring and controlling the health-threatening residues of pesticides left on vegetables grown in Beijing, Tianjin and in Hebei Province are to be introduced, according to China Youth Daily.

Recent years have seen a growing number of consumers suffering, sometimes seriously, from poisoning. On occasions, the pollutant residues have remained in people's bodies, causing long-term illness.

Vegetables eaten in Beijing come mainly come from Tianjin and Hebei Province, where standards in measuring the extent of pesticide pollution are quite different from standards in the capital As a result, some highly polluted vegetables which have been adjudged acceptable by Tianjin and Hebei Province health officials can easily enter Beijing markets.

The new safeguards embrace a single standard of pollutant measurement in all three centers. Farmers, meanwhile, will be directed on which pesticides to use, and kept up to date on this and other matters which concern public health.



 
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