Health Department Warns of Possible Tainted Ginger (from china, has pesticide on it) [View All]

[The Straight Story]

Health Department Warns of Possible Tainted Ginger


The California Department of Public Health has issued a warning about fresh ginger from China. The California Department of Pesticide Regulation’s residue monitoring program detected the presence of aldicarb sulfoxide in some batches of imported ginger. Aldicarb sulfoxide is a pesticide that is not approved for use on ginger.

It said the product was distributed to Save Mart and Albertson's stores in Northen California by Christopher Ranch of Gilroy, California.

CDPH and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration are tracing the imported ginger from the importer, Modern Trading Inc. in Alhambra, California, to determine the full distribution of the product and to identify other retail stores that may have received it.

Symptoms of aldicarb poisoning in humans are likely to occur within the first hour following exposure. Ingestion of foods contaminated with aldicarb at low levels can cause flu-like symptoms, nausea, headache, blurred vision, which disappear quickly, usually within five or six hours. However, at higher levels, ingestion of aldicarb contaminated food can also cause dizziness, salivation, excessive sweating, vomiting, diarrhea, muscle stiffness and twitching, and difficulty in breathing.

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