The hidden chemicals in fruit and vegetables

[CanOz]

"But a lot of produce from developing countries like China doesn't have any legal restrictions on levels of pesticides and bacteria."

This quote, if referred to China specifcally and not in a metaphor would be completely untrue.

China has very strict guidelines on what it allows to be exported, from a Physical, Biological and Chemical risk perspective and it applies these laws to both its own and foreign enterprises.

Its no different than any other country in that wants to ensure it's export products are the best the country has to offer, which, if you think about it, is a "no brainer".

Suffice it to say that i work with a company that has an export license, and i know what it took us to get it. The Chinese are interested in protecting thier image as a quality exporter.

Cheers,

 

[DB008]

Yeah, like McDonalds getting Beef from South America. Alot of steroids that are banned in the US aren't in South America. They bulk up cattle in 30days which usually takes months without help of steroids.
What about BASA that we get over here in OZ!!!! I work on a minesite in WA (l'm not saying which one or for what company) and the fish they serve is BASA (CATFISH) I have never had a allergy to seafood in my life, yet l break out in a rash with this Basa which is from Vietnam. The joke going around is that it's the DDT and chemicals that the US used during the war in the 70's that is still leaking into the rivers. Lots of rumors going around. Another rumor going around is that some Asian countries use human waste as fertilizer. Ment to be the best, but l just feel sick thinking about that one.
I agree think that the cost of fresh food is starting to become a joke. Asparagus is like $5.00 a bunch yesterday. Trussed tomatoes r like $4.00kg. Sometimes (alot really) it's cheaper to get take-away. which ain't that healthy.

 

[CanOz]

Yeah, like McDonalds getting Beef from South America. Alot of steroids that are banned in the US aren't in South America. They bulk up cattle in 30days which usually takes months without help of steroids.
What about BASA that we get over here in OZ!!!! I work on a minesite in WA (l'm not saying which one or for what company) and the fish they serve is BASA (CATFISH) I have never had a allergy to seafood in my life, yet l break out in a rash with this Basa which is from Vietnam. The joke going around is that it's the DDT and chemicals that the US used during the war in the 70's that is still leaking into the rivers. Lots of rumors going around. Another rumor going around is that some Asian countries use human waste as fertilizer. Ment to be the best, but l just feel sick thinking about that one.
I agree think that the cost of fresh food is starting to become a joke. Asparagus is like $5.00 a bunch yesterday. Trussed tomatoes r like $4.00kg. Sometimes (alot really) it's cheaper to get take-away. which ain't that healthy.

I work for a large foreign food processing company. They are very strict with us, even more pedantic than the Western food agencies. Maybe they're different with their own.

I know an Aussie asparagus farmer, he's selling his farms and moving to China to grow it here for export to the West. He can't compete, so he's going to join them.

Cheers, stay away from that catfish mate!

 

[DB008]

Yeah, l haven't touched the stuff for like 4 months now. I don't know, l saw the label on one of the boxes and the sodium content was like 50% or something crazy.
Ohh well, they must be making money on it. l saw it advertised in the local paper, the butcher of all people, for $32 for 5kg box.
Basa from Vietnam, Nile Perch from Nigeria in Africa. All full of chemicals in my opinion.
Some countries in the EU have banned BASA because of the chemicals that r found it in. I think that it should be banned in Oz myself.

 

[Kauri]

Yeah, l haven't touched the stuff for like 4 months now. I don't know, l saw the label on one of the boxes and the sodium content was like 50% or something crazy.
Ohh well, they must be making money on it. l saw it advertised in the local paper, the butcher of all people, for $32 for 5kg box.
Basa from Vietnam, Nile Perch from Nigeria in Africa. All full of chemicals in my opinion.
Some countries in the EU have banned BASA because of the chemicals that r found it in. I think that it should be banned in Oz myself.

Dannyboy,
Its not Poons catering is it (now called Compass). I remember being in one of their camps where they served up bacon that still had 1/4" bristles on it!!!!

 

[theasxgorilla]

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Basa from Vietnam, Nile Perch from Nigeria in Africa. All full of chemicals in my opinion.
Some countries in the EU have banned BASA because of the chemicals that r found it in. I think that it should be banned in Oz myself.

I ate Basa recently and received an allergic reaction, like what I get from eating egg or chicken (to which I have REAL allergies). I have NEVER been allergic to fish, and hereafter have never experienced any allergy to fish or shellfish. I've also NEVER eaten Basa again.

 

[DB008]

Hey Kauri, Not going to say.
Weird how nowdays almost everyone seems to have an allergy to something. Hmm.

 

[macca]

I did read that in Vietnam a lot of people who live on the river, farm fish and prawns in a cage attached to their houseboat.

The fish/ prawns live on whatever comes down the river plus ALL the waste from the people who live aboard.

I will not eat Vanamei prawns or Coral trout, no way

 

[purple]

- sausages and preservatives for breakfast?
- nice rich chicken soup for dinner - and hormones injected into the chicken
- the lovely honey ham with its heavy preservatives
- delve into the evergreen baked beans and you get the aluminium can producing metal toxin
- pop a few fish liver oil capsules in and you get mercury
- put a can of coke in the sun and you get arsenic
- get a bottle of mineral water from the freezer and it's poisoned by the frozen plastic
- walk along a city street and 100 people around you blow cig smoke into your lungs
- escape the pathway and a truck belches black exhaust fumes to you
- take a warm bath and the sodium lauryl sulfate (cancer causing agent) in your soap/shampoo/toothpaste hits you

hidden chemicals in fruit and vegetables? more like hidden chemicals embracing you, with no escape.

ah, for a place in the outback, with fresh kangaroo on the barbie for dinner...oops, the cooking with charcoal fire is cancer causing too.

 

[Tisme]

 

[SirRumpole]

Maybe we should just drink water.

Or maybe not.

 

[CanOz]

Apples produce their own wax as well...

After they've been harvested, apples get washed and brushed to remove leaves and field dirt, and then they get packed in cartons for shopping to your market. This process removes some of the fruits original wax coating that actually protects the fruit.

So the apple packers re-apply a commercial grade wax, and one pound of that wax can cover as many as 160,000 pieces of fruit. So in other words, two drops of it on each apple. The waxes have been used on fruits since the 1920s. they're all made from natural ingredients certified by the US Food and Drug Administration as safe to eat and they come from natural sources such Carnauba that wax, the leaves of the Brazilian palm, Candelia wax, which is derived from a reed-like dessert plant of the genus euphorbia and also food grade shellac."

Apple wax

Now i don't trust the USDA, but i am curious why he didn't mention the FACT that apples produce thier own wax.

Perhaps he just wants to increase his youtube audience so he gets paid more

 

[qldfrog]

Apples produce their own wax as well...



Apple wax

Now i don't trust the USDA, but i am curious why he didn't mention the FACT that apples produce thier own wax.

Perhaps he just wants to increase his youtube audience so he gets paid more

But some of the wax is mixed with fungicide so;
wax in itself nis ot always a problem, it depends, but when it fixes chamical, not nice to have it transiting thru the body;
So hard to say...