'Dirty dozen' produce carries more pesticide residue, group says

By: The Local Dish Team | June 01 2010

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This article cropped up on CNN today, just in time for summer eating. Does it encourage you to go organic?

CNN -- If you're eating non-organic celery today, you may be ingesting 67 pesticides with it, according to a new report from the Environmental Working Group.

The group, a nonprofit focused on public health, scoured nearly 100,000 produce pesticide reports from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to determine what fruits and vegetables we eat have the highest, and lowest, amounts of chemical residue.

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