FruitTrop Magazine n°234
Statistics - 2013 and 2014 fresh fruit and vegetables European imports
- Publication date : 28/07/2015
- Price : Free
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A highly alarming study…
- Published on 28/07/2015 - Published by IMBERT Eric
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- Product(s) : Citrus
- Rubrique / Thématique : Direct from the markets
- Country : United States
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Citrus consumption promotes the development of skin cancers! At least, that was the finding of a scientific article written by a team from Brown University, Rhode Island (USA), recently published in the “Journal of Clinical Oncology”. If there is cause for alarm, it is not at the findings of this article, but rather at the mere fact that it was able to be published! The reservations regarding methodology, included in the preface, actually take up one-and-a-half pages. Among other points, they relate to lack of representativeness of the sample, and to failure to take into account other parameters such as sun exposure which, as should be obvious without cutting-edge scientific training but simply through common sense, is a major risk factor. Similar correlations can also be drawn between the rate of divorce in the State of Maine and margarine consumption…Yet they are generally published in satirical magazines, and above all they do not cast suspicion on fruits whose beneficial effects on health have been robustly demonstrated many times over, and on an industry already in great difficulty, on which thousands of jobs depend in often precarious zones.
