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The Dirty Dozen– EWG’s Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce
The Environment Working Group, EWG released its seventh edition of the Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce, a resource that ranks pesticide contamination for about 50 popular fruits and vegetables and recommends which produce is best to buy organic. Here … Continue reading
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
