20% of Children's Food Covered with Poison

The Captain remembers when he was a babe and he complained to his grandmother, "but the Captain doesn't like organophosphates and pyrethroid insecticides." She sternly replied, "eat your goddamned vegetables and quit your whining." The Captain's grandfather, a doctor, chimed in, "those chemicals put hair on your chest. Be a man and eat your toxic carrots."

Forty-six elementary school age children from Georgia and Washington states participated in the study for two to three days. Their parents collected a total of 239 non-organic food samples.

Nearly one-fifth of the food samples measured had at least one pesticide. Of those, more than one-quarter contained multiple pesticides in the same food sample.

In total, the food contained varying amounts of 14 different pesticides, including different organophosphates and pyrethroid insecticides.

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The researchers also bought and tested additional samples of the fresh fruits and vegetables most commonly eaten by the children. They found that more than 25 percent of these samples contained measurable pesticide residues.

[Environmental Health News]