The Environmental Group is out with its annual Dirty Dozen fresh fruits and vegetables and the Alliance for Food and Farming is countering the message as usual.
The EWG generally pushes consumers to buy organic fruits and vegetables while the AFF says it is important to eat fresh produce whether
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Dear Editor,
I saw your story regarding the “Dirty Dozen” list and would appreciate your consideration of updating your content to include some additional facts and information for your readers so there is a balanced perspective and inclusive of peer reviewed studies, not just claims from Environmental Working Group.
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The Environmental Working Group has finished crunching numbers from a government report and again says strawberries are at the top of the group’s Dirty Dozen list of fresh produce.
Every year the non-profit group takes a few weeks to review data compiled and released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture
Continue Reading Raisins invade list as environmental group names ‘dirty’ fresh produce
While more than half of the foods tested had pesticide residues, less than 1 percent of the commodities covered by the USDA’s Pesticide Data Program had levels above legal limits.
The annual report from the Agricultural Marketing Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture covers testing for 2018 and was
Continue Reading USDA report shows more than half of foods tested have pesticide residues
The U.S. Department of Agriculture choose this week before Christmas to release pesticide data for 2017 upon which it declared the U.S. food supply is “among the safest in the world.”
USDA’s Pesticide Data Program (PDP) Annual Summary for 2017 shows more than 99 percent of the samples tested had
Continue Reading USDA’s claims food in U.S. ‘among safest in world’ based on latest pesticide tests
Editor’s note: This opinion piece by Sonya Lunder, senior analyst for the Environmental Working Group, is part of a three-piece presentation today by Food Safety News. To read views on the same topic from an independent nutritionist and the Alliance for Food and Farming, please refer to the links
Continue Reading Triple play: EWG posts ‘Dirty Dozen’ list of fresh produce items
Editor’s note: This opinion contribution by the Alliance for Food and Farming is part of a three-piece presentation today by Food Safety News. To read views on the same topic from the Environmental Working Group and an independent nutritionist, please refer to the links at the bottom of this
Continue Reading Triple play: AFF says rest easy, eat your fruits and vegetables
Editor’s note: This opinion contribution by Toby Amidor is part of a three-piece presentation today by Food Safety News. To read views on the same topic from the Environmental Working Group and the Alliance for Food and Farming, please refer to the links at the bottom of this column.
Continue Reading Triple play: ‘Pro-choice nutritionist’ calls out produce guides
The “Dirty Dozen” is in the news again and as usual I’m imaging a remake of the 1967 motion picture with a cauliflower playing Ernest Borgnine’s character, a cucumber in place of Donald Sutherland and some kind of smooth-skinned melon in the role played by Telly Savalas.
I imagine production
Continue Reading Beach Beat: The main event EWG vs. AFF — no holds barred
Almost four out of 10 samples of both domestically grown and imported fruits and vegetables that were put to the test by California showed no signs of pesticide residue — whatsoever.
Coming two weeks after federal pesticide residue testing results for 2015 were released, the California Department of Pesticide Regulation
Continue Reading Few pesticide worries in latest California sampling data
