2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
The Bulgarian Food Safety Agency has found large quantities of Turkish lemons containing pesticides in excess of the permissible level. Dangerous fruits have been returned to our southern neighbor.
The risk of falling on these lemons is minimal, the BFSA assures, as most of the dangerous goods are detained at the Turkish-Bulgarian border.
There is no requirement, according to which it is obligatory to put distinctive signs on the lemons in order to find out where the fruits are imported from, but we can require a certificate from the trader for their origin, Nova TV explains.
Since the beginning of the year, nearly 800 tonnes of lemons have been returned to Turkey, and 140 tonnes of them have had high levels of pesticides. Due to these cases, the Bulgarian side sent 6 warnings to our southern neighbor.
The BFSA assures that the control over the native warehouses and commercial sites is strict. Required documents are the goods that describe their origin and method of processing.
Customers, on the other hand, say that they choose lemons mostly according to price, and quality remains secondary.
The Food Agency is calling for any suspicion of a dangerous product on the market.
Experts also advise you to wash the fruit well after you buy it, with warm water and soap, as this alone is enough to kill dangerous pesticides. They are located only on the peel of the fruit and their core does not need such treatment.
Dangerous fruits can be recognized by their unusual smell.
One of the most commonly used pesticides in our southern neighbor is chlorpyrifos. It is used in agriculture in many countries around the world to control plant pests.
In high concentrations, the drug damages the brains of children in the womb, according to an analysis by American scientists published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA.
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