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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1988

FOR

RESULTS OF LABORATORY TESTS ON VEGETABLES

VEGETABLES RECKIVED FOR NEGATIVE TESTED

FOR THE RECENT

THE FOR

MUNICIPAL

THREE RESPONSIBLE SPOKESMAN A

OF FOUR SAMPLES OF SUSPECTED CONTAMINATED GOVERNMENT LABORATORY TESTING, METHAMIDOPHOS,

TOXIC PESTICIDE THE OUTBREAK OF VEGETABLE POISONING, SERVICES BRANCH (MSB) SAID TODAY (THURSDAY),

ORGANISATION OF

THE BANNED PESTICIDE, "THE REMAINING SAMPLE WAS POSITIVE FOR

NOT DID

EXCEED THE MAXIMUM RESIDUE LIMIT BUT THE CONCENTRATION

THE JOINTLY RECOMMENDED BY THE FOOD AND AGRICULTURE UNITED NATIONS AND THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION, WHICH IS CONSIDERED SAFE.

SAID.

"HOWEVER, THE CONSIGNMENT HAS BEEN

DESTROYED, THE SPOKESMAN

INSPECTION

BUREAU

(CIB)

HAS BEEN

MUNICIPAL SERVICES

BRANCH

FOR

"THE SHENZHEN COMMODITY INFORMED OF THE INCIDENT AND REQUESTED TO TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION."

UP TO YESTERDAY HAD RECEIVED FROM THE

FOLLOW-UP VEGETABLES.

ACTION,

A

THE (WEDNESDAY), VEGETABLE MARKETING ORGANISATION (VMO),

REPORTS OF PESTICIDE-TAINTED OF FOUR TOTAL

16

THESE REPORTS FOLLOWED THE VMO'S IMPLEMENTATION ON DECEMBER

(AFD) RECENTLY DEPARTMENT'S AND FISHERIES THE AGRICULTURE INTRODUCED QUICK SCREENING TEST ON VEGETABLES FOR PESTICIDE RESIDUES.

OF

STATED THAT ONE TO TRST POSITIVE то THE MSB FOR

AT THE AFD'S PRESS BRIEFING YESTERDAY IT WAS CONSIGNMENT OF VEGETABLES WHICH THE VMO HAD FOUND FOR PESTICIDES,

REFERRED

INVESTIGATION, HAD EARLIER BEEN RELEASED TO THE MARKET.

ACCORDING

AND SUBSEQUENTLY

TO THE AFD, THE

WHOLESALER

OF VEGETABLES HAD NOT CO-OPERATED BY VOLUNTARILY SURRENDERING FOR DESTRUCTION.

THE

IMPLICATED HIS GOODS

BY

THE MSB SPOKESMAN SAID THE PUBLIC ALARM AS THE LEFT-OVER SAMPLE OF THE CONFIRMED METHAMIDOPHOS.

GOVERNMENT THE

TO LABORATORY

SHOULD HAVE NO CAUSE FOR HAD BEEN RELEASED CONSIGNMENT

BE NEGATIVE

FOR

THE OUTBREAK OF VEGETABLE-POISONING IN LATE OCTOBER HAD LED

THE FOR FOR VEGETABLES CHINA'S IMPLEMENTING A TAGGING SYSTEM KONG MARKET.

ΤΟ

HONG

SIDE OF OF CHINA'S

"INSPECTION AND SAMPLING BY HEALTH INSPECTORS ON THIS

THE MSB OF THE USEFULNESS THE BORDER HAVE TAGGING SYSTEM, THE SPOKESMAN SAID.

CONVINCED

/"THE VMO'S