"All Agricultural Products Passed Residual Pesticide Tests Ahead of Jeongwol Daeboreum, Gyeonggi-do Health and Environment Research Institute"

Gyeonggi Province conducted tests for pesticide residues on agricultural products distributed within the province ahead of Jeongwol Daeboreum (February 24) and found all to be compliant.

The Gyeonggi Provincial Institute of Health and Environment announced on the 22nd that from February 1 to 16, they collected 119 agricultural product samples from 12 locations, including local food direct stores in Suwon, Yongin, Anseong, Ansan, Gunpo, Gwangju, and Icheon, as well as small and large mart distribution stores, and tested for 471 types of pesticide components, all of which were deemed compliant.

Gyeonggi Provincial Government

The test subjects included ▲ 61 samples of ingredients for Ogokbap (five-grain rice) such as sorghum, millet, job's tears, barley, and foxtail millet ▲ 37 samples of greens ingredients such as aster scaber, eggplant, radish, pumpkin, spinach, and chamnamul ▲ 21 samples of nuts such as walnuts, chestnuts, peanuts, and pine nuts.

The test results detected pesticide residues in 2 samples of Ogokbap ingredients and 10 samples of greens, but all were within the standard limits, with no non-compliant agricultural products found.

Park Myung-gi, head of the Agricultural and Marine Products Inspection Department at the Provincial Institute of Health and Environment, stated, "This inspection is part of the Agricultural Product Safety Keeper project for thorough pesticide residue testing by period and theme. We will continue inspections and promotions to enhance trust in agricultural products distributed within the province."

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