Pesticides tainting traditional China herbs: Greenpeace

Greenpeace's report "Chinese herbs: elixir of health or pesticides cocktail?" is the latest to focus on the harmful effects of China's large-scale farming industry.

Traditional Chinese herbs are being contaminated with a toxic cocktail of pesticides that poses a threat to consumer health and the environment, campaign group Greenpeace said Monday.

Some residue levels were hundreds of times higher than European Union food safety standards, according to tests carried out for a Greenpeace report "Chinese herbs: elixir of health or pesticides cocktail?", the latest to focus on the harmful effects of China's large-scale farming industry.