Costco Costco comes out one after another! Carcinogens were detected in raw shrimp, cadmium in avocado exceeded the standard, and strawberry and blueberry pesticides exceeded the standard

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The Food and Drug Administration of the Ministry of Health and Welfare today (28) released a list of border inspection irregularities, including a number of violations of Costco products from Costco, a well-known American retailer. Imported avocados were found to have excessive levels of cadmium for two consecutive weeks, while frozen raw shrimp imported from Thailand detected banned nitrofuran metabolites in Taiwan. On the other hand, the best supermarket was found that the blueberry prednisone imported from the United States exceeded the standard, and the imported sweet pepper flunizide from Canada exceeded the standard.

Yan Zonghai, director of the Clinical Toxicology Center of Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, points out that cadmium is a primary carcinogen announced by the World Health Organization, and long-term exposure increases the cancer rate. Yan said that nitrofuran metabolites found in frozen raw shrimp in Thailand are listed as category III carcinogens by the International Center for Cancer Research of the World Health Organization, and some animal experimental studies have increased the risk of cancer. Taiwan is banned because of health concerns.

The "ESSENTIAL EVERYDAY blueberry" imported from the supermarket detected residual pesticide prednisone 0.2 ppm, which does not comply with the Taiwan regulation of 0.01 ppm (Photo courtesy / Food and Drug Administration)

Yan Zonghai: cadmium is the primary carcinogen and nitrofuran metabolite is the third carcinogen.

Product residues of heavy metals and pesticides exceed the standard, the greatest impact is the health of the public. Yen Tsung-Hai points out that cadmium is a primary carcinogen announced by the World Health Organization, and long-term exposure increases the incidence of cancer, such as lung and prostate cancer. The "pain disease" that occurred in Japan in the 1950s was due to the presence of heavy metal cadmium in industrial waste water, which contaminated crops and led to bone lesions, osteomalacia and spontaneous fractures.

However, the human body does not absorb 100%. Yan says that the human body will only absorb 6%, and it will be excreted through the kidneys and urine. "unless exposed every day, the human body is not prone to cadmium poisoning. If people are worried, they can take blood to test their urine." In addition, prednisone and flunizide are insecticides with moderate and low toxicity, respectively. at present, EPA animal experiments increase the risk of cancer, but there is no evidence of carcinogenesis in human experiments.

Yan said that nitrofuran metabolites found in frozen raw shrimp in Thailand are listed as category III carcinogens by the International Center for Cancer Research of the World Health Organization, and some animal experimental studies have increased the risk of cancer. Taiwan is banned because of health concerns.

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