date:Feb 18, 2014
The California Department of Public Health is warning people not to eat cactus imported from Mexico that were sold at specific retail and wholesale locations around the state. The cactus has been found to contain unapproved pesticides.
A recent routine surveillance sample collected by the California Department of Pesticide Regulation isolated as much as 5.8 parts per million of Monocrotophos, an organophosphate-based pesticide that has been barred from use in the United States since 1989. The a