Showing posts with label Vegetable. Show all posts
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Thursday, October 4, 2012

Ripening Chemical in ‘Papaya’ gave me a Fractured Ankle!

Surprised?

Yes, for the 1st. time in my 54 Years on this Earth - I had a violent chemical-reaction - manifesting in 'unbearable, whole (Full) body itching'.

I searched causes for this kind of allergic reaction, on the net, but couldn’t find much information as to any home remedy.

And within a couple of hours my blood pressure had dropped to very dangerous levels (sub-70) and if I hadn’t been rushed to a nearby Hospital - Specialists there said - I would’ve died and they further confirmed that there were a few such instances, where people have died without knowing what hit them. 

The doctors there, initially, diagnosed it to be a ‘drug-reaction’ and tried to revive me by boosting-up my blood pressure levels with whatever medicines / drugs they should through intravenous injections.  On my recovering consciousness, when they were enquiring about what drugs, I had taken that Day, I named the drugs, all of which have been prescription ones and which I have been using for longer periods and insisted that those prescription drugs for which My body is so used to that it is unlikely it could be a ‘drug-reaction’.
The next Day Morning, they started enquiring of what food I had the previous Evening to which I replied ‘Papaya’.  The Sr. Physician there advised me that I should desist from taking ‘Papaya’ as it’s giving me violent allergic reaction. 

Well, I had taken Papaya scores of times and it never gave me any kind of allergy, earlier and wondered how it, suddenly, started to give me ‘reaction’.  Then, I recalled having read and seen ‘expose’ of unscrupulous fruit & vegetable vendors using dangerous chemicals to ripen them, though I couldn’t recall the names of any.
Finally, the Doctors concluded that it must be ‘Chemical-Reaction’ that went into my stomach through ‘Papaya’.

It all started with my taking - on Friday Last (September 28, 2012) - a small bowlful of Papaya pieces and within 5 minutes, I had that violent chemical-reaction.  After trying to find some cause & probable home-remedy for my condition, I went to toilet and I lost my consciousness and with it my balance that I fell on the ground with a twisted right ankle. 

My right ankle has been casted in accordingly and I’ve been discharged the next Day, after instructing me to stop putting any weight (my body-weight) on my Right Feet (Ankle), take the prescribed medicines and also do some physiotherapy exercises, for six Weeks before I visit them for inspection to remove the casting on my feet.

The next Day after my discharge from the Hospital, I searched, this time round for ‘fruit ripening chemicals’ and I found out that Calcium Carbide is extensively used for ripening most fruit which may also contain “arsenic and phosphorous” which make the fruit poisonous and less tasty.

And also that it costs only Rs. 60/- per Kilogram and only around 100 Grams is used to ripen, artificially, 50 Kilograms of Fruit.

Usage of ‘Calcium Carbide’ for fruit ripening is banned in most countries including in India.
Either with the help of our lethargic & / or corrupt ‘Food Safety Enforcers’, the deceitful fruit traders are poisoning so many innocent people some of whom could be infants, the weak, old or those convalescing from some ailment, with this banned Chemical or they must be using some other toxic chemical for the same purpose.

No Wonder, people would want to go back in History where everything is grown through natural processes only and never used any artificial, especially of the Inorganic type contamination.

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

EUROPEAN E. Coli Threat: A Search Is Under Way for Tainted Sprout Seeds!

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By WILLIAM NEUMAN / Published: July 5, 2011.

Authorities are frantically trying to trace all of the tainted fenugreek seeds from a large shipment linked to a deadly E. coli outbreak in Europe, saying the product was distributed more widely than previously thought.

In a new report, a large shipment of organic Egyptian fenugreek seeds was distributed to dozens of companies in at least 12 European countries, the European Food Safety Authority said on Tuesday. Investigators were still trying to determine if additional countries had received some of the seeds.

“The trace forward operation is becoming complex and widespread and may take weeks,” the report said, referring to efforts to locate the seed shipments.
Investigators are now focusing on a single shipment of more than 16 tons of Egyptian fenugreek seeds that was received by a German importer in December 2009, according to the report.
Authorities say that sprouts grown from the seed, often used in salads, were responsible for two major outbreaks of a rare strain of E. coli bacteria, known as O104:H4.

01) At least this time round, do they have enough proof to condemn the Egyptian Organic Fenugreek Seeds?

02) Or is it a some kind of maligning campaign by the GM Seed suppliers and / or Farm Chemical Manufacturers?

03) I am raising this doubt, as last Month too they blamed Spanish Cucumbers for the outbreak!

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Thursday, June 16, 2011

E. Coli Menace: EU slams Russia over failure to lift E coli vegetable ban!

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DPA / The Hindu.

Though Russian President Dmitry Medvedev promised to lift the ban on EU vegetables, it is still in effect.
Though Russian President Dmitry Medvedev promised to lift the ban on EU vegetables, it is still in effect - AP.

The European Union on Wednesday lashed out at Russian officials for having yet to lift an E coli—prompted ban on EU vegetables, five days after President Dmitry Medvedev promised to do so at an EU—Russia summit.
“The (European) Commission today expressed its profound dissatisfaction that the lifting of the ban ... has not yet been implemented,” Commission spokeswoman Pia Ahrenkilde said, noting that contacts “at diplomatic level” are to be made by trade officials.
“After the end of the summit, there was confirmation and a clear identification of the source of the contamination, which once again, and in a totally clear manner, underlined that this measure, which was already disproportionate, has no reason to be,” she added.
German health officials have identified sprouts grown from beans or peas as the carriers of the virulent E coli strain, which has killed at least 37 people — almost all in Germany.
Russia implemented its ban in early June, when it was still unclear how the bacterium was being spread.


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