Food scandal in Slovenia: Paracetamol detected on India's imported pickles

This is the first such case in Europe, Slovenian authorities confirmed, while additional analysis conducted in a private laboratory has confirmed the presence of the medicine for temperature reduction.

According to laboratory results, precetamol concentration was about 30 milligrams per kilogram of the product.

After the discovery of this case, 15 thousand kilograms of pickles have been blocked in warehouses, while the European Commission has been announced, Portal Danas.hr reported.

From Croatia's State Inspectorate has indicated that suspicious cucumbers have not been distributed on the Croatian market, adding that no similar case of the Paracetamol presence in food has been recorded so far in Croatia.

Experts Maja Rapajic from the Faculty of Food Biotechnology in Zagreb has explained that in the normal process of producing pickles, Paracetamoli is not a possible component.

The various marined vegetables, including cucumbers, are water, vinegar, sugar, salt, and spices. During the process, cucumbers are covered with marine juice and then cleaned up. The production itself does not use paracetamol, but it can occur later contamination, perhaps during growth, such as the water in which plants are watered,”, it has explained.

Rapajic has declined to comment whether the paracetamoli may have been deliberately used during the conservative process, but has not ruled out the possibility of human factors.