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Fake pesticides pose threat

Flood of counterfeit chemicals is harming people and industry.

An industry body has issued a warning to European farmers buying cut-price pesticides for their fields: some cheap products, it says, could be a fake.

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Posted by Nicola Jones on November 5, 2006 10:15 PM |

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The uncertainty of which pesticides are actually used on your food is another good reason to buy organic whenever possible. Environmental Working Group's Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce lists the 12 produce items with the highest and lowest pesticide residues. If you can only afford to buy some items organic, this guide can help you determine which to buy.

Get it here: http://www.foodnews.org

Posted by: Matthew | November 6, 2006 08:08 PM

If you can only afford to buy some items organic, buy none at all. Buy more cheaper conventionally produced fruit and vegetables: you are at much greater risk from underconsuming these than from pesticide residues.

Posted by: Tim Roberts | November 9, 2006 11:49 AM

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