Cowpeas contaminated by toxic pesticides from Hainan Province were found in Dongguan markets, Dongguan Daily reported on Feb. 27th.
Dongguan's food watchdog on Feb. 24th and on Feb. 25th took 25 cowpea samples from two supermarkets and five local markets for food and vegetables, and found four of the samples were tainted with a poisonous pesticide called Isocarbophos.
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Officials from Dongguan's food watchdog is taking samples of cowpea from a local market for food and vegetables. |
The 25 samples are from Carrefour (located at Century Plaza in Dongcheng District), PARKnSHOP (opposite to Yong Hua Ting in Dongcheng District), Tangbei Market, Jinsha Market, Dongcheng Market, Huayuan Market and Xicun Market, according to the report.
The food watchdog later confirmed that the four contaminated samples of cowpeas are from Hainan Province, the report says.
Earlier this month, about 3.5 tonnes of Hainan cowpeas were found tainted with a poisonous pesticide called Isocarbophos in Wuhan, capital city of Hubei Province.
Wuhan destroyed all 3.5 tonnes of the cowpeas and prohibiting further Hainan-produced cowpeas from entering the city's markets.
Tests on Hainan cowpeas were later carried out nationwide. Toxic co peas were found in central Hubei, southern Guangdong, eastern Anhui and Jiangsu provinces.
Dongguan Government has asked local wholesale markets for vegetables to tighten their supervision on vegetable entering their places, and to keep good record of the origin and sales destination of products selling in their markets after the contaminated cowpeas found.
(By Morvin Chow)
