Poison on your plate

摘要

Banned toxic chemicals that can cause cancer are sneaking into food more often and at higher levels than anyone suspected. But there is no regular monitoring of produce to protect consumers.rnTests on over 20,000 food samples in Belgium in the wake of a massive food scandal in 1999 have revealed that up to 4 per cent of the samples contain high levels of poly-chlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) from a different source, says Luc Hens of the Free University of Brussels (VUB). Some eggs had levels similar to those from the original incident.