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 organization, Iron Eagle V Group, randomly tested a few of the vegetables grown on two rail farms at Panvel and Juinagar. The vegetables were then analyzed 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 Organization (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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