Key Findings on the Dirty Dozen from the Environmental Working Group Study<\/strong><\/p>\n

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• Nearly all samples of strawberries, spinach, peaches, nectarines, cherries, and apples tested positive for residue of at least one pesticide.<\/li>\n
• The most contaminated sample of strawberries had twenty<\/em> different pesticides.<\/li>\n
• Spinach samples had an average of twice as much pesticide residue by weight than any other crop. Three-fourths of spinach samples had residues of a neurotoxic pesticide banned in Europe for use on food crops \u2013 it\u2019s part of a class of pesticides that recent studies link to behavioral disorders in young children.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

  The Clean Fifteen <\/strong><\/p>\n

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  • Corn<\/li>\n
  • Avocados<\/li>\n
  • Pineapples<\/li>\n
  • Cabbage<\/li>\n
  • Onions<\/li>\n
  • Sweet Peas Frozen<\/li>\n
  • Papayas<\/li>\n
  • Asparagus<\/li>\n
  • Mangoes<\/li>\n
  • Eggplant<\/li>\n
  • Honeydew Melon<\/li>\n
  • Kiwis<\/li>\n
  • Cantaloupe<\/li>\n
  • Cauliflower<\/li>\n
  • Grapefruit
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    Key Findings on the Clean Fifteen from the Environmental Working Group Study<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    • Avocados and sweet corn were the cleanest: Only 1 percent of samples showed any detectable pesticides.<\/li>\n
    • More than 80 percent of pineapples, papayas, asparagus, onions, and cabbage had no pesticide residues.<\/li>\n
    • No single fruit sample from the Clean Fifteen tested positive for more than four types of pesticides.<\/li>\n
    • Multiple pesticide residues are extremely rare on Clean Fifteen vegetables. Only 5 percent of Clean Fifteen vegetable samples had two or more pesticides.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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