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An inspection by the Bulgarian Food Safety Agency found that tomatoes offered in Plovdiv contained dangerously high amounts of bromine.
The analysis of each of the vegetables has shown that they contain 3 times more than the permissible level of the chemical element.
Experts claim to have found 154 milligrams of bromine in one kilogram of tomatoes, given that the permitted dose is 50 milligrams of bromine per kilogram of vegetables.
The tomatoes were grown in the greenhouse of ET "Niya - N. Valchev", which is located on the territory of TPP "North" in Plovdiv.
The owner Nikolay Valchev stated that he did not know the reason for the poisoned harvest.
Toxicologists have explained that bromine can cause serious damage to health. In the presence of even low concentrations of bromine vapor in the air, a person gets severe poisoning.
According to experts, the customer can not understand whether the products he buys are not toxic, because their appearance does not suggest that they can be dangerous to human life and health.
The Plovdiv greenhouse claims that they treated the soil where the tomatoes were grown, only with pesticides that do not contain bromine in their composition.
The Food Safety Agency immediately ordered the production of life-threatening vegetables to be stopped, but tons of dangerous tomatoes are still being offered on Plovdiv markets.
It is not yet clear where the bromine in tomatoes came from, but experts have promised to conduct detailed soil tests as well as check what pesticides the vegetables have been sprayed with.
Scientists from the Department of Ecology at the Agricultural University in Plovdiv explained that it takes between 3 and 5 years to completely degrade the chemical element bromine in the soil.
This was also confirmed by Professor Stoyka Masheva, who is the director of the Maritsa Institute of Vegetable Crops in Plovdiv.
Professor Masheva believes that gasification with methyl bromide, which happened years ago, cannot be the cause of the increased norms of bromine in the soil.
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