Minimizing Pesticide Exposure Through the Consumption of Organic Food

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Food and Beverage
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Food & Beverage,
Manufacturing
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Organic Center for Education and Promotion

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Overview: This article presents and analyzes the claim that because organic farmers are not supposed to spray their crops with synthetic pesticides, the presence of residues in some samples of organic food must mean that at least a portion of organic farmers are not following the rules. Natural pesticides approved for use on organic farms may actually pose dietary risks comparable to the synthetic pesticides used on conventional foods. Pesticide residues found in conventional foods pose essentially no risk, so it should not matter to consumers that organic foods contain relatively fewer residues.

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Format: PDF | Size: 714KB | Date: May 2004 | Pages: 63

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