US ham, French salad dressing, kimchi from South Korea and goji berries from China were among 16 products barred from entering Taiwan because they contained traces of banned drugs or excessive levels of preservatives and pesticides, the Food and Drug Administration said yesterday.
The products, which also included dried chrysanthemums from Japan, dried penny bun mushrooms from France, green tea from Vietnam and corn and cactus extracts from the US, ready to sell in both Carrefour and Costco, failed to pass border inspections.
The items have been destroyed or sent back to the countries from which they were exported. The administration updates border inspection information on products banned from entering Taiwan from now. We just can't see that regularly ingesting small amounts of toxic chemicals won't hurt our bodies, and however much the Government tries to reassure us that such microscopic quantities are nothing at all to worry about. Who will buy it? Please take a look of Taiwan dialysis rate, too high to believe.
And being less than keen to eat traces of pesticides should be a goal for every liver of this planet. Importing food of high carbon footprint, high cost, and now more pesticides, with a good conscience, the notion that air-freight, with all its CO2 emissions, is contributing to global warming and helping to heat up the planet towards the point of no return.
Air freight emits more greenhouse gases per food mile than any other mode of transport. This is what picking up any air-freighted product - whether or not it carries an organic stamp.
Planes have rapidly become the Achilles heel of many would-be environmentalists. Next time, as a consumer to eat fragile fruits and vegetables that have been transported, at great expense to the planet, from thousands of miles away. Please rethink about it.
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