Methomyl may cause headache, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, extreme sweating, tremors, and blurred imaginative and prescient. The EC has mirrored in its notification that no motion has been taken in response to this discovering.
The European Commission (EC) has lately alerted in regards to the presence of watermelons from Morocco with traces of a pesticide, methomyl, above the permitted ranges, after receiving a discover from Spain by means of the Community Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (Rasff).
The notification occurred on the 14th, with an replace on the twentieth, by means of the Rasff system, by means of which Spain communicated the alert to the EC, which in flip despatched the data to the remainder of the nations of the European Union (EU).
The shopper group Facua has echoed this communication, by which the EC has specified that the fruit exceeds the presence of this pesticide allowed by neighborhood laws.
The EU detection system has categorized the extent of danger as “severe”, in accordance with Facua, which has identified that methomyl is “a substance that’s used as a pesticide and that may have severe penalties in some circumstances”.
According to a report revealed by the EC, in 2022, 990 notifications associated to pesticide residues have been registered by means of Rasff, which, nevertheless, represented a lower of 20% in comparison with 2021.
However, the EC has mirrored in its notification that no motion has been taken in response to this discovering.
Facua has added in a press release that methomyl may cause signs of intoxication resembling “headache, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, extreme sweating, tremors and blurred imaginative and prescient” and that its combination with alcohol “can influence the nervous system”.
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