Close to 70 percent of the produce sold in the U.S. has pesticide residues, a new Environmental Working Group report finds.
The leafy greens are ranked second and third, respectively, on Environmental Working Group's Dirty Dozen, a list of the fruits and vegetables with the most pesticide residue. At the top of the advocacy group's latest roster, released Wednesday, is strawberries; nectarines and apples round out the top five.
The EWG explained that the guide was made to help consumers reduce their"pesticide exposures as much as possible" by reporting what fruits and veggies to buy organic and which conventional produce have low levels of pesticide residue. Less than 1 percent of avocados and sweet corn samples had detectable pesticides and more than 70 percent of Clean Fifteen samples had none.Sing the blues: Myspace loses 12 years' worth of music uploaded to the site – up to 50 million songs
The data was from tests on fresh and processed foods, including fruits, vegetables, honey, milk and bottled water. Teresa Thorne. a spokeswoman for the Alliance for Food and Farming, a Watsonville, California-based organization representing organic and conventional produce farmers, said EWG has been reporting on this for more than two decades and"it's time to move away from it."
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