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The Clean 15- EWG’s Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce

The Shopper’s Guide to Pesticide in Produce, Clean 15 will help you determine which fruits and vegetables have the least amount of pesticide residues. Clean 15 (lowest in pesticides) Onions Sweet corn Pineapples Avocado Asparagus Sweet peas Mangoes Eggplant Domestic … Continue reading »

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What are Pesticides?

The tem pesticide is presently used to describe a very broad of agents designed to kill undesirable forms of life-pests. Pesticides include agents for killing insects (insecticides), mites (miticides), weeds (herbicides), fungi (fungicides), and rodents (rodenticides). Fumigants are another class … Continue reading »

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