date:Jul 06, 2017
The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department announced that a cucumber sample was found to contain pesticide residues at a level exceeding the legal limit. The CFS is following up on the case.
A CFS spokesman said, The CFS collected the cucumber sample at import level for testing under its routine Food Surveillance Programme. The test result showed that the sample contained methomyl at a level of 0.21 parts per million (ppm), i.e. 2.1 times the maximum resid