Though we are constantly urged to eat more fruit and vegetables. I wouldn't take the risk.

In Gozo we have farmers who spray their crops in the evening and I saw them the following morning dressed in what looked like a spacesuit picking their produce and taking it straight to the market.

As far as I am concerned this is a crime. Offenders should be prosecuted and fined heavily.

Do you know what goes into a watermelon? We need inspectors to test every product before it goes to the consumer. And we need inspectors who cannot be bought off with a kilo of bananas.

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