This has been reported for years.
Just the other day, someone offered me a strawberry of a box fresh bought; I declined, for just these reasons.
Walking down the isle
of the grocery store yesterday
I said to myself,
“All this food trying to kill me.”
Food, food everywhere
and not a bite fit to eat.
perfect chaser for the banana and grapes I ate for breakfast.
Makes me wonder how contaminated are the bugs (pests) they want us to eat.
The "high risk" is based on extrapolations of much higher levels of chemicals.
All life is risk.
The dose makes the poison. At some level, chemicals are harmless.
These scare articles all assume there is no safe level, in spite of a hundred years of knowledge to the opposite.
Time for back yards to become gardens and learn how to do canning.
Eat as locally as you can and as cleanly as you can. But, balance in all things, so have a Twinkie once in a while. ;)
The Dirty Dozen and the Clean 15 Foods:
https://www.mindbodygreen.com/articles/ewg-dirty-dozen-and-clean-15-lists
P.S. Most of these can be grown in a home garden, depending upon your location.
All told, we either grow or buy locally-sourced 90% of our fruit and vegetables.
Consumer Reports is a leftist publication .
Our food is very safe.
Don’t fall for the anti science fear mongering.
A trace amount of something is normally meaningless .
With the better detection methods , any chemical can be detected in anything .
In the studied green beans, researchers shockingly found ‘residues of a pesticide that hasn’t been allowed to be used on the vegetable in the US for over a decade.’
And there’s your problem....eat US grown produce. And wash it.
Not sure if this will reassure people or not, but a couple years ago I was in Honduras. We drove past a cantaloupe plantation entrance, where they would bring in busloads of workers. I remember seeing a big graphic on the side of the wall of the building at the entrance. It was a figure of a man taking a whiz on the ground with the universal red “prohibited” circle/slash over it.