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The Environmental Working Group (EWG) announced their yearly roundup of nan "dirty dozen" of fruits and vegetables that are contaminated pinch nan astir pesticides.
EWG’s study of nan latest consequence and rootlike testing information from nan Department of Agriculture and Food and Drug Administration (USDA) revealed nan 12 astir contaminated fruits and vegetables.
"Everyone – adults and kids – should eat much fruits and vegetables, whether integrated aliases not," EWG Senior Scientist Alexa Friedman, Ph.D. said successful a property release. "But consumers concerned astir pesticide vulnerability tin usage nan suite of materials successful EWG’s Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides successful Produce to make nan champion choices for them and their families."
For its 2024 yearly report, nan EWG analyzes information from tests conducted by nan USDA and nan U.S. Food and Drug Administration connected much than 46,000 samples of 46 celebrated crops to find which fruits and vegetables person nan highest and lowest levels of pesticide contamination.
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Close up image of fistful of delicious reddish strawberries. (iStock / iStock)
Strawberries topped nan EWG’s "Dirty Dozen" database of most-contaminated crops, followed by spinach successful 2nd spot and kale, collard greens and mustard greens taking 3rd spot together.
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Following those leafy greens, nan adjacent astir contaminated crops see grapes successful 4th place, peaches successful fifth, pears successful sixth, nectarines successful seventh, apples successful eighth, doorbell peppers and basking peppers successful ninth, cherries successful tenth, blueberries successful eleventh and greenish beans successful twelfth.
Hass avocados during a harvest successful nan municipality of Chichicastenango, Guatemala, connected Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023. (Camilo Freedman/Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images)
The EWG besides recovered which crops had nan lowest levels of pesticide residues for its yearly "Clean Fifteen" list.
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Avocados were recovered to beryllium nan slightest contaminated pinch pesticides, followed, successful order, by saccharine corn, pineapple, onions, papaya, stiff saccharine peas, eggplant, asparagus, honeydew melon, kiwi, cabbage, watermelon, mushrooms, mangoes, saccharine potatoes and carrots.
