Pesticides detected in food products continue to cause concern. Exported from Turkey to abroad and the “European Union Food Alarm System” reflected in the records of the inconvenient products, dry fig, pepper, pistachio, lemon and grapes are. Okratoxin with high figs and pistachios harmful Aflatoxin harmful to health; While pepper, lemon and grapes were identified with high pesticide residues, Türkiye was the second country to receive the most notification due to pesticide.
Returned from the border
On the other hand, Greenpeace removed 2024 pesticide report cards in Turkey. In the report, it was emphasized that India was the first notifications of the pesticide notifications detected in the foods sent to Europe in 2024 and Turkey was Türkiye with 139 notifications in the second. In the report underlined that 98 of the notifications received by Turkey’s pesticide residues is in the “serious risk” class, which is the highest level, It was pointed out that the peppers wanted to be sent to Europe 29 times and the lemon was surrounded from the border 23 times.
Children are threatened
Cause of illness
Pointing out that leukemia is more common in the infants of agricultural workers. Dr. Dağlı, “Sudden pesticide theme may result in death in young children. Pesticide exposure to memory loss, urinary incontinence, headache, vomiting, causing vision blur. Heavy metals causes nose and throat irritation, cough, wheezing, shortness of breath, asthma. Chronic cadmium, arsenic, aluminum, mercury, lead exposure to blood pressure, vascular stiffness and vascular inner surface cells lead to deterioration, “he said.
Chlorpirifos-metyl
Greenpeace Turkey Food Campaign Officer Duygu Kural said that although the instantly announced the instantly announced foods and imitation or adulteration products that will endanger health, pesticide analysis was not explained. Rule, “in the last year TüChloropyrifos-metylis were detected in tangerine, pepper, lemon, grapefruit and orange sent to Europe from RKİYE, which was found to be serious risky and these products were translated from the border. In addition to chloropyrifos-meter, other pesticides, which are prohibited in their use in Turkey, are also included in the determinations, “he said.
They use illegal
Food Bulletin Editor-in-Chief-Researcher İhsan Yılmaz also drew attention to the risks caused by Klorpirifos-Methyl chemicals. Yilmaz pointed out that the chlorpirifos-metylis substance is a poison that killed living things by paralyzing the nervous system, said: “In the studies, it was understood that this substance could lead to acute health risk and that even this substance spread to the baby in the womb. The detection of chlorprissfos of frequently in agricultural products sent from Turkey to Europe shows that this substance continues to be used illegally. “
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