Pesticide girl deceased after eating a tangerine

Suffering from a prohibited pesticide: eating a tangerine cost 12-year-olds their lives
Citrus fruits such as clementines and tangerines are not only delicious, but also considered very healthy. After all, they contain numerous vitamins that help to strengthen the immune system. However, fruit is sometimes contaminated with dangerous pesticides. So too a mandarin, which consumed a 12-year-old girl from Argentina. That cost her her life.

Death after eating a tangerine
Health experts recommend consuming five to ten servings of fruits and vegetables per day. Organic products are ideal, after all, conventional goods are often contaminated with sprays - not only in Germany, but also on the other side of the Atlantic. In Argentina, a young girl recently died after eating a tangerine. The fruit was apparently contaminated with a banned pesticide.

Mandarins are actually very healthy. But a 12-year-old girl from Argentina lost her life eating such a fruit. The fruit was contaminated with a banned pesticide. (Image: Fontanis / fotolia.com)

Fruit contaminated with banned pesticide Furadan
According to Argentine media reports, the 12-year-old girl in the province of Corrientes consumed a tangerine on her way and soon suffered from nausea, vomiting, and tremors.

It died before the child reached the hospital. Her nephew, who had also eaten the fruit, survived.

"We did research on the site where the mandarin was picked. The boy vomited and felt ill, but the girl consumed a lethal dose, "prosecutor Osvaldo Ojeda said, according to a report by Canadian portal The Stopru..

The autopsy showed that poisoning led to the death of the girl. According to media reports, the fruit was contaminated with the pesticide furadan banned in Argentina.

This highly toxic remedy had apparently already been used to poison dogs.

Now it should be investigated whether the fruit was actually picked there or possibly dropped from a transport truck.

Always wash fruits and vegetables thoroughly
In this country too, fruit and vegetables must always be thoroughly washed, as they often contain numerous toxins.

You can not see the dangerous pesticide residues. However, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Factory Operation and Automation IFF in Magdeburg reported at the beginning of the year on an app developed by them, which can show the pesticide contamination in fruits and vegetables.

"You pull out your smartphone, open the app, point it at the object to be tested - such as the apple - and get the information you want: for example, whether the apple contains pesticide residues," it says in a statement from the Institute.

On the market, the app but only at the end of the year. (Ad)