The report was written by the Pesticide Action Network, which is an interest group opposed to all or essentially all pesticides and GMOs. I haven’t been able to review everything in the report, and I don’t plan to, but I’ve reviewed enough to see that many of the “toxic” or “carcinogenic” pesticides noted by the report haven’t actually been found toxic (at meaningful doses) by anyone other than the Pesticide Action Network; and much of this data is based on toxicity to aquatic life, etc., rather than humans.
TLDR: The press on this report isn’t providing valuable context, and the report itself isn’t exactly an unbiased analysis.
Do they still test citrus peel for pesticides? Always seemed a little dumb when you consider how little if any of the peel is consumed.
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Are there Non-Toxic Pesticides?
The report was written by the Pesticide Action Network, which is an interest group opposed to all or essentially all pesticides and GMOs. I haven’t been able to review everything in the report, and I don’t plan to, but I’ve reviewed enough to see that many of the “toxic” or “carcinogenic” pesticides noted by the report haven’t actually been found toxic (at meaningful doses) by anyone other than the Pesticide Action Network; and much of this data is based on toxicity to aquatic life, etc., rather than humans.
TLDR: The press on this report isn’t providing valuable context, and the report itself isn’t exactly an unbiased analysis.
Do they still test citrus peel for pesticides? Always seemed a little dumb when you consider how little if any of the peel is consumed.