Monday, July 20, 2009

Pesticides in Fruit and Vegetables

The US Department of Agriculture analysed between 2000 and 2007 87.000 samples of fruit and vegetables and tested them for traces of pesticides. As an example, 96,6 % of peaches had traces of pesticides, up to 42 different ones, actually. Some samples had traces of 9 different pesticides!! Hippocrates said: let your food be your medicine, and undoubtedly, most food commercially available cannot provide the quality our health requires. http://foodnews.org/methodology.php

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