Are We Eating Poisonous Pineapples?

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Botswana could be a dumping site for poisonous pineapples from neighbouring South Africa after fresh and canned fruits from that country were rejected by Europe.

This comes at a time when the European Union rejected the canned pineapples that were tainted with a known cancer-causing chemical element. 
The South African 'Daily Dispatch' reported recently that a shipment of South African pineapples destined for export was rejected after the European Union found excessively high levels of cadmium - a carcinogenic - apparently derived from fertilisers imported from China.

 
South Africa exports tonnes of fresh and canned pineapples to the European Union every year and the canned fruit is apparently on the shelves in South African and Botswana shops. 

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