3.8% of dishes at vegetarian festival test positive for meat

By The Nation

 

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The meat-free dishes served up at Thailand’s annual vegetarian festival may not always be as healthy – or vegetarian – as they seem, new findings suggest.

 

Dr Supakit Sirilak, acting chief of the Medical Sciences Department under the Public Health Ministry, said vegetarian foods are imported as well as being produced domestically, but not all products were labelled. Some also contained dairy products or were even contaminated with meat because producers failed to properly clean machines usually used to make meat products, he added.

 

The Public Health Ministry has been testing food offered during the annual festival since 2013.

 

This year, the ministry’s Medical Sciences Department and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) visited factories and distributors to test samples of four popular vegetarian foodstuffs – imitation meat, pickles, noodles, and vegetables and fruits.

The test results were as follows:

 

1. Imitation meat: 3.8% of samples were contaminated with meat.

2. Pickled vegetables (mustard, radish): Levels of benzoic acid exceeded safety standards but had dropped from last year.

3. Noodles (rice noodle, vermicelli, etc): 34.5% of samples contained sorbic acid and 20% contained synthetic organic colouring – additives banned by the Public Health Ministry because they can cause nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea.

4. Vegetables and fruit (bok choy, kale, long beans, celery, sweet peppers, radish, white cabbage, cabbage, oranges and rose apple): 20.8% of samples exceeded safe levels of chemical residue.

 

Dr Supakit urged people to buy labelled vegetarian products and examine vegetables and fruit carefully before consumption. The vegetarian festival runs until Sunday (October 25.)

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/lifestyle/30396557

 

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4 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

vegetarian foods are imported as well as being produced domestically,

Must be the imported food that is contaminated, a bit like the Covid in Thailand !

Another fear mongering article. I just went to the vegetarian festival and bought some food. No problem at all.

10 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

4. Vegetables and fruit (bok choy, kale, long beans, celery, sweet peppers, radish, white cabbage, cabbage, oranges and rose apple): 20.8% of samples exceeded safe levels of chemical residue.

If these are pesticides that accumulate, long term this cause some real problems - especially if this isn't unique to the veggies from the veggie festival...

15 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

3.8% of dishes at vegetarian festival test positive for meat

By The Nation

Very odd article to be writing and publishing. Usually sites try to PROMOTE Thai Festivals using encouraging and positive enticements to get more people to attend.

 

18 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

The test results were as follows:

[...]

3. Noodles (rice noodle, vermicelli, etc): 34.5% of samples contained sorbic acid

 ??? 

Wikipedia: Sorbic acid (natural organic compound used as a food preservative)

100% of dishes at vegetarian festival test positive for MSG.

 

 

This is why I always say the safest diet in this country is imported beef jerky washed down with copious amounts of whiskey.

oh noes !

 

????

Happens every time. Don't buy the stuff.

to any disappointed vegans: I can try to save your day.

I will happily buy any of your food contaminated with over 99% of meat.

Charlie Harper wouldn't complain:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZI-4nIUGBc

Maybe the blowflies and cockroaches

Lucky it was not imported from China.

Family of nine dies after eating noodles

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/food/food-warnings/nine-members-of-the-same-family-die-after-eating-corn-noodles/news-story/b65ea7bf0be3d743804ca6ca795d2cc3

5 hours ago, EricTh said:

Another fear mongering article. I just went to the vegetarian festival and bought some food. No problem at all.

Good for you. As you enjoyed your recent tasty snack, I will be sure to completely ignore the report issued by the notoriously transparent  Thai government indicating one third of products contain sorbic acid and 20% contains high levels of pesticides. 

7 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

3. Noodles (rice noodle, vermicelli, etc): 34.5% of samples contained sorbic acid and 20% contained synthetic organic colouring – additives banned by the Public Health Ministry because they can cause nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea.

If previous stories on TV are correct, potentially urine too

Not surprised as I worked as a Chef in LOS.....I took a cutie to a shop for "Jok"...she was a vegan(ugh), but cute enough for me to tolerate her veganism.......she order the vegan jok, which meant the thai workers just scooped the jok out of the big pot avoiding the pork balls that simmer in there 24/7/365......is why Im very suspicious of vegan places in CM, as working with thais and food safety was a "experience"....I recall if I made a recipe at 6pm today then tomorrow at 6pm was 2 days to thais..(24 hrs)..hence always finding my food discounted as it was "old"...nope

 

Or using albacore tuna and thais ordering me chunk lite aka cat food and saying same same!...nope..it is NOT same

If god had created man to just eat vegetables and no meat products we would look like this:

 

 

13 minutes ago, Grumpy John said:

If god had created man to just eat vegetables and no meat products we would look like this:

 

 

 Hefty, hoofed and horny?

TIT

 

As you enter Phuket there are colourful back drops which resemble harvest festival fare.

 

Take a stole along the streets in Phuket town to the wafts of boiling fat and displays of dirty looking profiteers offering deep fried everything bought with one intention, as much mark up as possible.

 

????
 

 

This is Thailand, where are they getting the vegan fish sauce?

 

They are fighting millions of years of evolution. humans are omnivores, own it.

Vegetarian, I never believed them, lived here too long,  

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3.8% of dishes at vegetarian festival test positive for meat

Honest, it was an accident. And only the tip of the finger was chopped off.

12 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

3.8% of dishes at vegetarian festival test positive for meat

Those are the dishes for me.

13 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Dr Supakit Sirilak, acting chief of the Medical Sciences Department under the Public Health Ministry, said vegetarian foods are imported as well as being produced domestically, but not all products were labelled. Some also contained dairy products or were even contaminated with meat because producers failed to properly clean machines usually used to make meat products, he added.

Who'd have thought that would happen.

Basic hygiene in Thailand not high on the list of things to do took me ages to get the wife to understand cold water never cleans anything, If i wash up I like to use hot water and leave the dishes soaking every so often I sterilize the cutlery with boiling water we got there eventually.

Im not Thai bashing but they never wash their hands after using the toilets

5 minutes ago, ChipButty said:

Basic hygiene in Thailand not high on the list of things to do took me ages to get the wife to understand cold water never cleans anything, If i wash up I like to use hot water and leave the dishes soaking every so often I sterilize the cutlery with boiling water we got there eventually.

Im not Thai bashing but they never wash their hands after using the toilets

A bit of dirt/bacteria builds your immune system.

I think your wife is right and you are wrong, the west suffers from cleanliness OCD.

 

As for vegans ....... a bit of meat won't hurt them, shhhhhh ....... they'll never know.

When I was reading the title: test positive for.... 

We are getting so used to read the test positive for Covid.

3 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

A bit of dirt/bacteria builds your immune system.

I think your wife is right and you are wrong, the west suffers from cleanliness OCD.

 

As for vegans ....... a bit of meat won't hurt them, shhhhhh ....... they'll never know.

True.

 

I went to visit a friend in a village.

What they were eating, I could not touch. The meat was looking "challenging" and the green stuff, hmm, at home, I would have probably treated it as weeds ????

12 minutes ago, ChipButty said:

Basic hygiene in Thailand not high on the list of things to do took me ages to get the wife to understand cold water never cleans anything, If i wash up I like to use hot water and leave the dishes soaking every so often I sterilize the cutlery with boiling water we got there eventually.

Im not Thai bashing but they never wash their hands after using the toilets

Same as washing their clothes with cold water in bathroom sink even when a washing machine is available.

This underwear must be hanging outside every night ????

3 minutes ago, AlfHuy said:

Same as washing their clothes with cold water in bathroom sink even when a washing machine is available.

This underwear must be hanging outside every night ????

That would do my head in, I dont have that problem the washing machine gets used in our house