Highly concentrated pesticides detected in frozen beans imported from China

Check your beans! more tainted food could be coming to your a store near you!

Japan today
TOKYO —

An extremely high concentration of pesticides has been detected in frozen green beans imported from China, and one woman who ate them became ill, a municipal government in Tokyo said early Wednesday. The public health office in Hachioji city said it has detected in the beans 6,900 parts per million of organophosphate pesticide dichlorvos, or 34,500 times the residue standard set by the Japanese government for imports.

The concentrated amount was nearly as much as an undiluted solution of the pesticide, according to the health ministry. The woman complained of numbing in her mouth after eating the product on Sunday, which she had bought the previous day at an outlet of Ito-Yokado Co. supermarket chain in Hachioji. The women, in her 50s, was hospitalized but recovered several hours later. Tokyo-based Nichirei Foods Inc imported 2,538 cases of the beans in question from a food maker in China’s Shandong Province in late July.

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