The Brazil mushroom scam: cadmium metal detected, what effect does it have on the human body?
Cadmium metal has been detected in Brazil mushrooms, so have you ever eaten this mushroom? Vegetables nowadays are becoming less and less safe, and when we buy them, we all have to choose carefully.
Major newspapers have all reported that Brazil mushrooms are contaminated with the heavy metal cadmium, and the place of origin is "Puli Nenggaoshan Organic Farm," so it can be said that another bombshell has been dropped on organic agriculture!
Regarding this matter, the Organic Agriculture Global Information Network has compiled the relevant information for everyone to browse and read, and reminds our dear readers of the following points:
1. The Nantou Puli Nenggaoshan Organic Farm, which was found in this sampling test to be contaminated with cadmium, is so far not a farm certified as qualified by a certification body recognized by the Council of Agriculture. If you would like to find out whether a farm is a certified-qualified farm, you are welcome to go to the Organic Agriculture Global Information Network and click on Organic Farmers to search.
2. The products of this farm have been sampled 23 times for pesticide residues, with 6 records of failing to meet standards. If consumers wish to check whether a farm producing organic agricultural products has a record of pesticide residues, they can go to the "Quality Monitoring" section of the Organic Agriculture Global Information Network.
3. According to the resolution of the 17th committee meeting of the Organic Agricultural Products Certification Steering Group on 2004.12.30, products grown off the ground are temporarily not included in organic certification, therefore there are no certified-qualified off-ground cultivated mushrooms or sprouts.
4. After asking Mr. Su Murong of the Ci-Xin Foundation, we learned that Brazil mushrooms in Taiwan, China are generally grown in the ground, unlike other mushrooms which are grown on mushroom beds or in space bags, so it should not be a problem with the space bags. Mushrooms are indeed more likely to absorb heavy metals, but what the source of the cadmium is still awaits further confirmation by the relevant authorities.