Pesticide Poisoning

6 May 2013

Farmers in Shandong have been overusing an illegal and highly toxic pesticide to grow ginger for years on end, adding yet another concern to the country’s growing list of food scandals.

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Food tests ordered as family suffers pesticide poisoning

21 Nov 1997

Health chiefs raised the alarm yesterday after a family of three suffered pesticide poisoning from vegetables, the first such case this year.

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Workers struck down by poison

21 Jan 1995

ALMOST 200 workers from four enterprises in Shenzhen were taken to hospital on Thursday evening after eating vegetables suspected of being contaminated with pesticide.

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Three suffer food poisoning

24 Oct 1994

THREE people were admitted to hospital yesterday after eating contaminated vegetables, adding to the record number of cases this year.

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Three poisoned

9 Mar 1994

THREE people are in hospital in Sha Tin with suspected pesticide poisoning after eating choi sum, according to the Health Department.

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Tainted vegetable

4 Mar 1994

THE pesticide methamidophos has been found on samples of the vegetable gau gei imported from China The positive samples were taken from the Cheung Sha Wan wholesale market.

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