More Chinese food scares: Green beans pulled from shelves

by Monika Bartyzel, Posted Oct 16th 2008 @ 9:03AM

Just in case you're actually keeping count and haven't run screaming for every Chinese food product out there, Reuters reports that there's a new food to fear -- frozen green beans. At least one person is in the hospital (in Japan) due to these greens, which reports say are tainted with pesticide -- dichlorvos to be exact.

You might be thinking: "So what? Lots of places use pesticides!" Well, it seems that one package of Nichirei Foods beans were tested and had a whopping 34 THOUSAND times the permitted level of a highly toxic insecticide. I can't begin to fathom how that happens without meaning to poison green bean eaters. Meanwhile, food safety officials in China say that it has already been determined that dichlorvos isn't used in the cultivation or processing of the beans. Maybe an evil dichlorvos fairy has been poisoning the foods?

So, if you chow down on some frozen green beans from China and find your mouth going numb and vomit-filled impulses increases, you best head to the hospital.

Filed Under: Health & Medical, Ingredients
Tags: Chinese food safety, Chinese food scare, ChineseFoodSafety, ChineseFoodScare, frozen green beans, FrozenGreenBeans, vegetables