date:Mar 04, 2013
tion are safe, let along truly organic.
-- In April 2011, police in the northeastern city of Shenyang seized 40 tons of bean sprouts that were tainted with sodium nitrite and urea, as well as antibiotics and a plant hormone known as 6-benzyladenine. The chemicals were used to make the sprouts grow more quickly and look shinier at the marketplace. 12 people were arrested.
-- More than three-and-a-half tons of yard-long green beans that were contaminated with a banned pesticide, isocarbophos, we