98% of the apples in U.S.A. contain 48 kinds of remains of pesticide

98% of the apples in U.S.A. contain 48 kinds of remains of pesticide
According to the 14th of Hong Kong " Wen Hui Daily ", the apple planting of 2,200 million dollars of U.S.A.'s total value faces the public relation calamity. The second most popular one of this kind of U.S.A. grows fruits, reaching 98% of the samples is tested out residual pesticide with 48 kinds of different kinds by the federal government, though the weight belongs to very safe edible level, organize " environmental work group " in the benefit of consumer in Washington Will be already polluted " dirty 12th National Congress " of the most serious vegetables and fruits by pesticide according to the result of laboratory test The list is revised, bring the apple up to the first place in a contest by the 4th last year. The list has been already in yesterday (13) Japan announces.
Besides the apple, United States Department of Agriculture also tests out residual pesticide in more than ninety percent of the samples of other 5 kinds of vegetables and fruits, including carrying many beer pear, Yan madder, potato and spinach of son, person. Before laboratory test, laboratory personnel washed the vegetables and fruits for 10 seconds with the cold water first, in order to imitate the course that common people eat the food of pre-processing.
The Ministry of Agriculture says, in all samples, only 3% of the crops, beef and rice contains illegal or excessive pesticide. But in the sample of the apple, test out 5 kinds of illegal pesticide. Association's president Seetin of American apple industry explains, those illegal pesticide will be probably allowed to float with the wind with the orchard of relevant pesticide by the adjacent place. It will influence the health that the human body is excessive to absorb pesticide, including increasing and suffering from the cancer risk.
" environmental work group " Point out, make " dirty 12th National Congress " The list should not advise people to stop eating those food, because " the nutrition of vegetables and fruits is far more important than to expose the potential risk to pesticide to the open air. " However, the list still has an opportunity to make consumers not dare to buy " poisonous vegetables and fruits " . The farmer including apple grower criticizes this list, it initiates peasants' unnecessary doubt to complying with the safe horizontal food and not violating the law to point it.
To the consumers not affording or not wanting the flower to give a long price for the organic food, " environmental work group " Announce a traditional crops list which receives the pesticide pollution of minimum at the same time " Clean 15th National Congress " ,It is successively onion, corn, pineapple and avocado to rank the highest one among them.
But except that remains of pesticide of 5 kinds of methods
1 washes this kind of method in France and suitable for the leaf vegetables. Can wash the superficial filth with water first, then soak for no less than 10 minutes. Can add cleaner of fruits and vegetables and increase pesticide to dissolve out while soaking, soak, rinse well with the fresh water.
2 water soaking law organic phosphorus insecticide will decompose under alkaline terms rapidly, can soak the vegetables of melon and fruit for 5 to 15 minutes in alkali water, will remove remains of pesticide effectively.
3 can remove remains of pesticide to prune the crust effectively to peel the law vegetables melon and fruit.
4 can preserve certain time to store the vegetables of melon and fruit that France keep in order to reduce the residues of pesticides amount, if preserve for more than 15 days and reduce greatly and remain.
5 can adopt this kind of method to vegetables such as the celery, spinach, pakchoi, fresh kidney beans,etc. to heat. Boil the vegetables for 2 to 5 minutes in the boiling water, then wash with the fresh water.
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