Category: Safe Food and Water
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We Found Toxic Pesticides in Target’s Baby Food — Again.
In 2024, Friends of the Earth found a cocktail of toxic pesticides in two non-organic baby food products made by Target’s house brand, Good & Gather. A year later, we wanted to see if anything had changed. So we sent samples of the same Good & Gather products, Apple Fruit Purée and Pear Fruit Purée for babies,…
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WASTE LANDS: THE THREAT OF TOXIC FERTILIZER
The recycling of hazardous industrial wastes into fertilizers introduces several dozen toxic metals and chemicals into the nation’s farm, lawn and garden soils, including such well-known toxic substances as lead and mercury. Many crops and plants extract these toxic metals from the soil, increasing the chance of impacts on human health as crops and plants…
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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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Excess fertilizer use: which countries cause environmental damage by overapplying fertilizers?
Nutrients are essential for crop growth. But when they’re overapplied they become a pollutant. Fertilizers have transformed the way the world produces food. They have not only brought large benefits for food security, but they also bring environmental benefits through higher yields (and therefore less land use). But, there can be a downside. When we…
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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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