These fruits, vegetables have highest pesticide contamination among fresh produce, study finds
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The Environmental Working Group released its annual “Dirty Dozen” and “Clean Fifteen” reports on Wednesday.
For its annual report, the EWG analyzes data from tests conducted by the USDA and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on more than 46,000 samples of 46 popular crops, to find which fruits and vegetables have the highest and lowest levels of pesticide contamination. Strawberries topped the EWG’s "Dirty Dozen" list of most-contaminated crops, followed by spinach in second place and kale, collard greens and mustard greens taking third place together.More Related News
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