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POISONOUS FOOD

Most of the vegetables, fruits, fish, meat, eggs, milk, packed food and ingredients for food brought into the state of Kerala  are highly contaminated and adulterated. The media have highlighted it time and again but the so called people's government do not take adequate measures to prevent this corrupt human activities for one reason or the other. A report prepared by the Food Quality Monitoring Laboratory under the Council for Food Research and Development (CFRD) indicates presence of pesticides that has rendered several lots of vegetables unfit for human consumption. Out of 44 lots of vegetables collected from different markets across Kerala, 10 samples contained organo chloro residue above permissible limits, which meant they were unfit for human consumption.(This refers to a report appeared in The Hindu, Kochi dtd 12th Jan 2014) Formalin is generally used for the preservation of fish. Formalin, a toxic and carcinogenic chemical commonly used to preserve dead bodies in mortu