Ahmedabad: The Gujarat high court has been pulling up industries for fouling up the Sabarmati with toxic effluents. And, if you believe that the issue does not concern you, take a good look at your dinner plate.
You may be munching on salads and veggies every day to keep fit, but many of them are grown in 43 villages located 60km downstream of Ahmedabad using the heavily polluted water from the river. As a result, the amount of metals found in the vegetables far exceed Indian, European as well as WHO standards by 3 to 28 times.
This was revealed in a study conducted by researchers from the National Centre for Earth Science studies in Thiruvananthapuram, PDEU in Gandhinagar as well as the Physical Research Laboratory and SAL Institute of Technology in Ahmedabad. “High concentrations of cobalt, chromium, copper, manganese, nickel, zinc and deadly lead were found in edible parts of the vegetables. These metals cannot be removed by washing the vegetables, using de-ionized water, or even drying it in the oven at 80C,” revealed the study, which was published in January 2021.
Each day, tonnes of these vegetables enter Ahmedabad’s wholesale markets.The study claims, “When compared to Indian food safety standards, lead was found to be 12 times higher, manganese was 13 times higher, chromium was three times higher, zinc was 2.5 times higher while copper was two times higher than the standard level.”
It reports, “For nickel, the Indian standard value is not reported. However,...
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