Be mindful of hazardous residue on food: official

A senior official on the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries urged these in command of vegetable and fruit high quality management all through the nation to be aware of testing hazardous residue from pesticides on the produce.

The decision got here at a coaching on “Utilizing testing kits for fruit and vegetable high quality management” on Might 12 on the Centre for Secure Vegetable Assortment, High quality Management and Distribution below the Kandal provincial agriculture division.

Meas Piseth, ministry undersecretary of state and director of the Agriculture Companies Programme for Innovation, Resilience and Extension (ASPIRE), stated it was necessary to check the fruit and vegetable and management their high quality.

“Once we all eat poisonous meals that comprises no nutritions, it impacts our well being resulting in losing, stunting … It prevents us from rising properly bodily and mentally and our household will undergo because of this. Dangerous meals makes us face many sorts of ailments once we become older,” he stated.

Buntuon Simona, provincial agriculture division director and head of ASPIRE for Kandal province, stated the coaching on pesticide testing was to assist protected vegetable manufacturing chain, growing belief amongst producers and consumers, and to make sure security for patrons and shoppers.