Tainted Vegetables Alert!

NST Online "Beware these greens: Tainted vegetables at Selayang wholesale market" highlighted that a very high percentage of the vegetables sold in the wholesale market is tainted with carcinogenic pesticides. This wholesale market supplies to three-quarters of the hypermarkets, wet markets, night markets and grocery stores in Selangor.

The article also advised that:

Vegetables must be soaked with salt to remove worms, larvae, eggs and pesticides.

"Choose vegetables with holes. The nice-looking vegetables are not always the best.

"Consumers must change their perception.

"When there’s no demand for nice-looking vegetables, farmers will reduce the use of pesticides.

"Eat more tubers and fruit vegetables like brinjal, cucumber and kacang, which contain less pesticide residues."