99: 2024 Pesticides in Produce Decoded

Unless you’ve been living under a Genetically modified rock laden with pesticides, you’ve likely heard of the Environmental Working Group’s (EWG’s) Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce which is updated every year. This guide is comprised of The Dirty Dozen; the 12 fruits and vegetables are the most contaminated with pesticides. And, the Clean Fifteen™; the product with the lowest amounts of pesticide residues, according to EWG’s analysis of the most recent USDA data.

We’re digging up all of the DIRT (and pesticide residues) on your favorite fruits and veggies as we dissect the 2024 guide which includes data from 47,510 samples of 46 fruits and vegetables with our special guest, Senior Toxicologist, Alexis Temkin from EWG.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

 

1. Is the government protecting me from pesticides used on produce and does legal mean safe?
2. What the term ‘organic’ means
3. The 12 fruits and vegetables that were found to be most contaminated with pesticides, otherwise known as the Dirty Dozen
4. Why 100 percent of Americans tested ages 6 and older were found to have detectable levels of certain pesticides
5. How four of the five most frequently detected fungicides in the Dirty Dozen affect our health
6. The two fungicides found in the highest concentrations of any Dirty Dozen pesticides
7. A potential hormone-disrupting fungicide that may harm the male reproductive system found in 90% of peaches tested
8. The best way to wash pesticides off produce
9. How children are being affected by produce coated with pesticides
10. The Clean Fifteen, the produce found lowest in pesticides<