AGENT ORANGE AFFECTING THIRD GENERATION

 and Half of all the fruit & veg you buy is contaminated .......

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AGENT ORANGE AFFECTING THIRD GENERATION - August 3, 2009

Health problems among Vietnam veterans, caused by exposure to agent orange, is still being passed through the generations, with their grandchildren now suffering disabilities.

A Central Coast man has launched a fund to help support third-generation sufferers, claiming the government refuses to acknowledge them.

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Half of all the fruit & veg you buy is contaminated
EXCLUSIVE: By Rob Edwards, Environment Editor
ALMOST HALF of the fresh fruit and veg sold across the UK is contaminated with toxic pesticides, according to the latest scientific surveys for the government.  Nearly every orange, 94% of pineapples and 90% of pears sampled were laced with traces of chemicals used to kill bugs. High proportions of apples, grapes and tomatoes were also tainted, as were parsnips, melons and cucumbers.  Alarmingly, as much as a quarter of the food on sale in 2008 - the date of the latest figures - was found to contain multiple pesticides. In some cases, up to ten different chemicals were detected in a single sample.

Over 4000 samples of more than 50 kinds of food on sale to the public in 2008 have been tested by scientists for some 240 pesticides.  Detailed reports for the government's Pesticide Residues Committee show that 46% of all the food samples were found to contain detectable levels of pesticides. Just over 25% contained more than one pesticide.  In 57 cases the levels of contamination were so serious that they breached the government's safety limits. They included 13 samples of beans in pods, and 10 yams, as well as potatoes, spinach and chilli peppers.

There were hardly any types of fruit and veg found to be completely free of contamination, although the vast majority of organic food tested was clean. As well as fruit and vegetables, smoothies, whole-grain breakfast cereals, oily fish and wine all contained pesticides (see accompanying table). Continues............

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