According to the Health Committee's announcement, three Israeli marketers were caught with contaminated goods and were required to transfer them to temporary warehouses. Despite this, they decided to market them to Israeli citizens. Representatives of the Ministry of Health refused to reveal the identities of the marketers at the hearing, and it even emerged that the ministry had not summoned them to a hearing and had not taken any significant steps against them so far. The hearing also revealed that the temporary warehouses are not warehouses owned or directly supervised by the state, but rather warehouses owned by the marketers themselves, so in practice the marketer can remove goods from them even before the procedure is completed.
Pesticide residues are a complex health issue. Not every abnormality in a laboratory test means immediate poisoning, but repeated abnormalities above the standards indicate a failure in supervision and a cumulative health risk. Some pesticides, mainly from the organophosphate family, may affect the nervous system, and high or prolonged exposure has been linked in the medical literature to neurological and developmental risks. In addition, the exact risk assessment depends on the type of substance, the concentration found, the duration of exposure, the amount consumed and the characteristics of the population, especially children, pregnant women and people with underlying diseases.
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