Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Don't eat leafy vegetable in Mumbai : Lethal Food Poisoning


If you are living in Mumbai or Bombay, make sure you start away from all leafy vegetables as you may end up dying with food poisoning. All the leafy vegetable are grown in plots next to railway tracks and they are watered by dirty excerata or shit or sewage filled gutter water. Its a scam to fool people, these people water the plants in the night time as no one will notice the same.

Next time you travel near railway tracks, please note the leafy vegetables grown  there. This same toxic filled vegetables are supplied to all the five stars, four star and other top restaurant chains and people eat them without knowing the source. I have also noticed vegetables like Lady finger, cabbage grown along the tracks.

Recently, a social service organisation, Iron Eagle V Group, randomly tested a few of the vegetables grown on two rail farms at Panvel and Juinagar. The vegetables were then analysed at an FDA-approved laboratory, and the results were far from comforting. Tests revealed the presence of heavy metals like zinc, cadmium, lead, cobalt, chromium and even arsenic in the vegetables, and the concentration of some of these metals was higher than the recommended limits set by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act (PFA).

According to microbiologist and chemical analyser, Madhuri Deshmukh, of Jubilant Pharma & Chemical Lab that tested the samples, the presence of metal in the samples prove that the soil is contaminated with industrial effluents and domestic waste because of the drain water.

The food department in also turning a blind eye and playing life with peoples life. Next time you are in Bombay or Mumbai think before eating vegetables.

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