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Can organic vegetables be sprayed with pesticides to kill insects?

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Organic vegetables are still sprayed with pesticides, is this really okay? How can consumers be deceived like this? It is precisely because of this matter that some people have been harmed. Let's take a look together. In December of year 87, Consumer Reports magazine published the news item "Organic Vegetables Are Still Sprayed with Pesticides"

 Organic vegetables are still sprayed with pesticides, is this really okay? How can consumers be deceived like this? It is precisely because of this matter that some people have been harmed. Let's take a look together.
After Consumer Reports magazine published the news item "Organic Vegetables Are Still Sprayed with Pesticides" in December of year 87, it caused quite a reaction, and the foundation also frequently received inquiry calls. Although this incident has temporarily come to an end, the relevant details and the truth remain like a fog, with no definitive conclusion yet.

        This time, the organic vegetables sampled by the Consumers' Foundation were found to contain pesticides such as dithiocarbamates, chlorpyrifos, and ethoprophos. Among them, one farmer about to be certified by the foundation as a practitioner had samples of water spinach and bok choy tested, and the bok choy was found to contain 0.31 ppm of dithiocarbamates. After this incident was disclosed, both the farmer and our foundation were extremely shocked. Based on various data from our foundation and the Liugong Foundation, as well as the contacts between the inspector and this farmer over the past two years or more, it was believed that this phenomenon should not have occurred. Therefore, the foundation's inspector and the farmer set out to investigate the crux of the problem.

 

It just so happened that before this incident occurred, the foundation had held two sessions of organic crop plant protection training courses at the Agricultural Extension Center of Chung Hsing University, from which information was learned that some Bacillus thuringiensis had been adulterated with pesticides. Out of curiosity, our foundation's inspector conducted random sampling and confirmed that this was indeed the case. Therefore, our foundation went back to inquire about this farmer's use of Bacillus thuringiensis, and preliminarily judged that the crux of the problem was quite likely in the composition of the Bacillus thuringiensis. During this period, the farmer also invited personnel from the Consumers' Foundation, the agricultural improvement station, and agricultural authorities to go to the site to understand the actual situation and take samples. Most people held a positive view of the operation of the farm.

 

        To confirm whether there was a problem with the Bacillus thuringiensis, personnel from the Consumers' Foundation sent the Bacillus thuringiensis to a certain pesticide testing unit for testing on two separate occasions. It was indeed found to contain dithiocarbamates (a. 0.8 ppm, b. 0.7 ppm) and carbofuran (a. 2 ppm, b. 7 ppm). For the sake of prudence, our foundation also sent Bacillus thuringiensis purchased from the same brand and the same location to a certain testing unit for testing, yet the results were completely different from those of the Consumers' Foundation. To this day, it remains a fog, with no conclusion yet reached.

 

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