Pesticides in Chinese Bamboo Shoots
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2012-10-24

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DESCRIPTION: Cans of bamboo shoots imported from China may have concerning levels of pesticide contamination. That was short and sweet! OK, maybe not so sweet. Organochlorine pesticides tend to build up in animal fat; see for example Cannibalistic Feed Biomagnification (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/cannibalistic-feed-biomagnification/), Avoiding Other Banned Pesticides (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/avoiding-other-banned-pesticides/), and Industrial Carcinogens in Animal Fat (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/industrial-carcinogens-in-animal-fat-2/). Due to this, we tend to think of meat, eggs, and dairy as being the most heavily contaminated. We especially think of farmed fish (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/farmed-fish-vs-wild-caught-2/) and fish oil (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/ddt-in-fish-oil-supplements/), but studies like this suggest there may also be significant plant sources. Do environmental pollutants result in a weighty number of cancer cases? See yesterday's NutritionFacts.org video-of-the-day, President's Cancer Panel Report on Environmental Risk (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/presidents-cancer-panel-report-on-environmental-risk/). How contaminated is the general population? See the first video in this series, CDC Report on Environmental Chemical Exposure (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/cdc-report-on-environmental-chemical-exposure/).

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