Peru: Are we eating contaminated Chinese onion?

The Chinese onion would not be suitable for human consumption, warned the specialist in consumer protection issues, Jaime Delgado. Why? Through a video posted on his TikTok account, the also former president of the Peruvian Association of Consumers and Users (ASPEC) indicated that a high amount of agrochemicals has been reported in the product, so ingesting it would be harmful to health. The specialist commented that in recent weeks, given the frequent complaints on social networks about the presence of blue spots on the Chinese onion sold in markets and supermarkets in Peru, we decided together with Slow Food, the RAE Ecological Agriculture Network and The Agroecological Consortium acquires these products that are so widely used in the chifas and in our own homes and we send them to an accredited laboratory to analyze them. "We acquired samples of the Chinese onion from a stall in the Santa Anita wholesale market on October 14 and sent them to CEIMIC Laboratories Corporation, an ...