Food Safety Problem in Taiwan: excessive pesticide residue of veg and fruits

                                                       

In Taiwan, tests have been carried out on fruit and vegetables sold at supermarkets to assess the pesticide residue on the produce. 69% of the samples tested contained pesticide reside and 12% shows excessive residue.

Forty-five of the 65 vegetable and fruit products collected from brick-and-mortar and digital outlets of the nation’s major supermarket chains, including RT-Mart, Pxmart, Carrefour, Matsusei, Wellcome, A. Mart, Costco and FamilyMart, contained pesticide residues.

Among them, pesticides officially designated as highly toxic by the Council of Agriculture were found in 11 products, while excessive residue levels were discovered in eight products, with a prohibited chemical found in one product.

RT-Mart, Matsusei, Carrefour, Wellcome and A. Mart last year pledged to stop selling products found to contain the officially designated highly toxic chemicals, but some of those chemicals were still found in products sold at these stores.

                                 

Grapes sold by A. Mart’s digital outlet were found to contain a mixture of 13 pesticides, which Greenpeace said could expose consumers to a cocktail effect of harmful chemicals.

Sweet potato leaves sold at a Carrefour outlet were found to contain traces of highly toxic pesticide, Methomyl, while a green pepper was found to contain levels of Difenoconazole residue, that were seven times the council’s permitted levels.

                            

Greenpeace project manager, Lo Ko-jung, said “Local agriculture is still heavily dependent on pesticideS. Major supermarket outlets have failed in their role as a gatekeeper and continue to sell products containing highly toxic pesticides.”

                    

New French LAW: All New Rooftops Must Be Covered With Plants

Do you live in France? If you’re getting a new house, you might have to follow this incredible, sustainable law.

A new law that was passed that mandates that new buildings in commercial lots need to have either plants or solar panels on the roof. Having a garden on your roof sounds like a paradise, one that’s easily obtainable and should be happening all over the world. Plants create an isolating effect to help reduce the energy needed to heat or cool houses.

They also absorb rainwater to help prevent leaks, provide a home to small critters and insects and most importantly it connects us back to nature. Combining modern society with the natural world is exactly what we need to do and this is a good start. Originally, French environmental activists wanted the law to cover the entire roof but they decided to start with participially covered roofs to see how it does.

Solar panels on the roofs of businesses is amazing because it helps reduce the amount of energy they use while creating sustainable, renewable energy instead. It slows down global warming as it cuts down pollution and CO2 emissions. It saves millions of dollars in energy usage.

                                       

It’s renewable, never-ending energy that comes from the Sun, a source that won’t stop anytime soon.
It’s consistent even in cloudy places of the world as the energy still gets through. It creates independence for humanity; we don’t need to rely on paying a government to get power which is inherently free to everyone.\

                        


It helps combine the natural world with our society, helping to integrate us into our natural way of life. It can use recycled materials to build, creating a system of recycling rather than throwing away.
If you plant vegetables, it saves you money as well as increases your health and vitality.

It helps clean the air and filter certain gasses. And much more for both! When we implement these ideas globally, then we can start living harmoniously with our Earth, like we were meant to do.

This concept is already popular in parts of the world like Germany and Australia, as well as Canada’s city of Toronto (which is interesting as I’m from there and never really noticed this.) When ideas like this come out, it’s both exciting and frustrating. Why are there so little concepts like this actually coming to fruition? Many artists, designers, architects and scientists have created incredible, sustainable ideas that corporations just can’t seem to bank on so the attention is never properly given.

If we globally demanded things like this, there would be a greater push to create them. We need to collectively see the importance and demand that our world start shifting into sustainability because we truly are running out of time. Not to worry, there are plenty of people around the world working towards the benefit of humanity.

                                     

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Sugarbaby said: if you live in a place like our friend Jeff Plante, you should have one of this advanced LED home grower to provide organic foods for your family.

                   

Even Monsanto can not ban Home organic food

    

Raymond Boucher, an attorney, said the  "organic" ruling was a big victory for consumers.

2015.12.03, SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Consumers have a right to file lawsuits under California law alleging food products are falsely labeled "organic," the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday. The ruling overturned a lower court decision that barred such suits on the grounds that they were superseded and not allowed by federal law.

Congress wanted only state and federal officials to police organic food violations in order to create a national standard for organic foods, a division of the 2nd District Court of Appeal decided in 2013.

But the state Supreme Court said allowing consumer lawsuits would further congressional goals of curtailing fraud and ensuring consumers can rely on organic labels.

"Accordingly, state lawsuits alleging intentional organic mislabeling promote, rather than hinder, Congress's purposes and objectives," Associate Justice Kathryn Werdegar wrote for the unanimous court.

The ruling will have an impact beyond California's borders, said Marsha Cohen, a professor at UC Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco."Nothing in here is irrelevant to a parallel case in another state," she said. "The court is simply saying federal law does not supersede our consumer protection functions."

At issue were allegations in a lawsuit by consumer Michelle Quesada that Herb Thyme Farms Inc. — one of the nation's largest herb producers — mixed organic and non-organic herbs then falsely labeled the product "100 % organic." The term "organic" means the food was produced using sustainable practices and without synthetic fertilizers, sewage sludge, irradiation, or genetic engineering, according to the California Department of Public Health. The department says products labeled "100% organic" must consist of only organic ingredients.

Chicfarm aeroponic grower produces foods with organic nutrients, clean seedling foams, non-irradiation, no genetic engineering, perfectly meeting the term “organic” definition and best part of it is that consumers can grow them at home to get FREE organic foods which even Monsanto can do nothing about it!! Our Sugarbaby said: what he loves the best is that all foods has NO pesticides whatsoever!

                                     

                     

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