This year’s Dirty Dozen list from the Environmental Working Group opens with a statement about COVID-19 and food safety, encouraging consumers to continue to eat fresh fruits and vegetables during the pandemic.
Officials with the
Continue Reading Some leafy greens added to Dirty Dozen, strawberries still at top of the EWG’s list
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
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
Continue Reading USDA report shows more than half of foods tested have pesticide residues
European officials have voted not to renew the approvals of chlorpyrifos and chlorpyrifos-methyl.
Chlorpyrifos and chlorpyrifos-methyl are insecticides to control insect pests on a range of crops. Chlorpyrifos-methyl is also used to treat stored cereal
Continue Reading EU votes against renewing chlorpyrifos approval
Today, the FDA doubled-down on its flawed 2005 and 2017 decisions to allow the hazardous chemical perchlorate to be added to dry food packaging. The FDA denied a request for a public hearing submitted
Continue Reading FDA refuses to reconsider decision on hazardous chemical in food packaging
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
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
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
Continue Reading Triple play: ‘Pro-choice nutritionist’ calls out produce guides
Each side has just the congressional recess left to practice its hyperbole for the coming Senate fight over how regulations will be used across government. It’s going to get nasty. And confusing. The practice of
Continue Reading Food safety insecurity used as a hook against regulatory reform
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
Continue Reading Beach Beat: The main event EWG vs. AFF — no holds barred
