The EWG’s Dirty Dozen list is a great help for holiday food shopping.
…this list is my goto reminder of what foods should be bought organic as well as what foods are ok to do as conventional…
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The yearly update to the Dirty Dozen and Clean Fifteen lists is out.
...When buying food it would be great if we all could afford organic all of the time, but that is just not always possible...
So, what do you think we really know about pesticide use in California?
...One last surprising statement from the article was, “even though strawberries take up less than 1 percent of the total farmland in California, they account for at least 8 percent of pesticides used in the state...”
The Environmental Workers Group Is At It Again.
The EWG just never stops giving us great information. The EWG has come out with their 2014 Dirty Dozen & Clean 15 list. The list is based on testing that determines the pesticide levels found on food. EWG found that two-thirds of produce sampled had pesticide residues. This list includes fifty one fruits and vegetables with the lower numbers indicating higher pesticide levels found. So the Apple is listed as #1, and is found to have the highest residual levels of pesticides...
The EU Bans Some Chemicals That The FDA Allows.
The US Department of Agriculture has found both of these neurotoxic pesticides in conventional fruits and vegetables. Between 2006 and 2011 imidacloprid was found in roughly 22 percent of the conventionally grown produce tested, and below are the foods most often contaminated...