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This one basket of strawberries contained 20 different pesticides
Top 10 list for most pesticides includes strawberries, spinach, pears and tomatoes
ShutterstockThe strawberries you’re eating probably have pesticides on them. Same with the celery, spinach, peaches, pears and tomatoes you picked up at the supermarket.
Some 70% of samples of 48 nonorganic fruit and vegetable samples had pesticide residue — even after thoroughly washing or, in some cases, peeling, an analysis of the U.S. Department of Agriculture by Washington, D.C.-based environmental nonprofit research organization Environmental Working Group found. The USDA found 178 different pesticides, and more than 98% of the samples of some of this produce had at least one pesticide. A single sample of strawberries had 20 different pesticides.
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