Every year, Environmental Working Group crunches pesticide-testing data USDA data and comes up with its "Dirty Dozen" and "Clean Fifteen" lists of most- and least-contaminated fruits and vegetables.
This year's model, released Tuesday, crowned the apple as the dirtiest produce, and asparagus as the cleanest. The "dirty dozen" list is below; the "clean 15" is here.
I have to add the same lament as I did last year—while I find EWG's "dirty dozen" effort to be extremely valuable for consumers on a budget deciding which produce to buy organic, I wish it would also add a third list tracking pesticide exposure for farm workers. While I do not discount the dangers of consuming small amounts of the cocktail of pesticides found on a typical grocery-store apple, it is the people who tend and harvest farm fields who bear the most risk.
via MoJo Blogs and Articles | Mother Jones http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2012/06/pesticides-baby-food-ewg-dirty-dozen
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