The Netherlands takes a batch of Peruvian avocados out of the market because they had high levels of
date:Mar 31, 2022
The Dutch health authorities have pulled from the market a batch of avocados from Peru that, as notified by the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) on 21 March, contained cadmium levels above the MRL allowed in the European Union. According to the notification, classified as severe, the avocados had 0.054 mg/kg - ppm of cadmium, when the maximum level allowed is 0.05 mg/kg - ppm.

Luis Gomero, president of the Peruvian Agroecological Consortium (CAP), said this posed a risk for Peru's a

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