What are clean vegetables, or safe vegetables?
In fact, many people choose to buy clean vegetables but still have a vague concept of it. Clean vegetables (or safe vegetables) is a term used to refer to green vegetables, tubers, and fruits that are safe for human health and the amount of chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and stimulants remaining in the process. Production must be below allowed standards.
To control and manage clean vegetable sources, the VietGAP concept was born. VietGAP standard stands for Vietnamese Good Agricultural Practices, issued by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. Products certified to VietGAP standards will have a stamp on the packaging, helping consumers feel more secure about the origin of the food they consume.
Eating dirty vegetables, how dangerous is it?
Dirty vegetables are vegetables contaminated with toxic chemicals due to the growing and cultivation process not following the principles of using pesticides and chemical fertilizers. Therefore, eating dirty vegetables will seriously affect human health.
One of the common situations today is eating dirty vegetables with high pesticide residue. This can easily lead to neurological diseases. The chemicals in these drugs greatly affect or even cause a gradual loss of brain function.
Vegetables contaminated with toxins from pesticides and chemical fertilizers can cause acute poisoning in the body. If detected late and not treated promptly, it can lead to death. Besides, watering vegetables during transportation with polluted water is also a major cause of harmful microbial diseases such as helminths, parasites,...
In addition, people who eat vegetables grown from soil contaminated with heavy metals can easily absorb these metals into their bodies. This is the cause of cancers that are dangerous to human health.
The situation of "dirty vegetables" masquerading as "clean VietGAP vegetables"
Recently, there has been a large volume of "dirty vegetables" of unknown origin being smuggled into supermarkets and convenience stores by companies specializing in distributing agricultural products after being "enchanted" to become "VietGAP clean vegetables" with stamps. fake labels. From then on, dirty vegetables are blatantly qualified to become clean vegetables and distributed to consumers.
