Category: Safe Food and Water
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EWG’s Dirty Dozen Foods with Pesticides
Of the 47 items included in our analysis, these 12 fruits and vegetables were most contaminated with pesticides The Environmental Working Group’s “Dirty Dozen” webpage summarizes produce that tests show to have the highest pesticide residues, based on USDA and FDA data. It forms part of EWG’s annual Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce, which…
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FDA’s Market Basket Study
This report summarizes the analytical results for elements from the United States (US) Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Total Diet Study (TDS) for fiscal years 2018 through 2020. The TDS is a continuous survey and one of the tools FDA uses to monitor the food supply. For the TDS, FDA collects foods from retail outlets…
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