Sentences with phrase «contaminated by pesticides»

See which foods are safest for your child, which are most and least likely to be contaminated by pesticides, and when you shoul...

The FSC sets limits for additives, when they are used, ensuring that the product is not contaminated by pesticides or any other pollutant.

Not exact matches

In a large study on pesticides in produce by the Environmental Working Group (EWG), bananas ranked 22nd for most contaminated of the 49 tested fruits.

Pesticides used on banana, coffee and rice plantations are contaminating remote Central American tropical rainforests by hitching a ride on air currents as they sweep up mountainsides.

Later, comparing samples of multiple species of rice grown in numerous regions around the world, he found arsenic levels almost universally elevated, including in the U.S. Notably, much of the U.S. rice crop is grown in regions of the South where the soil is contaminated by old arsenic - based pesticides, once used by farmers to protect cotton crops from boll weevils.

Twenty - five years after a toxic gas cloud from a pesticide factory killed thousands of people in Bhopal, India, groundwater at the accident site — a drinking water supply for 15 communities — remains contaminated, according to a report released today by an advocacy group and a medical clinic.

Environmental mercury and other heavy metal exposure, contaminated water, pesticides, a greater reliance on antibiotics — and even extensive television viewing by very young children — may be factors in mounting autism rates.

Research done by the Environmental Working Group shows that consumers can lower their pesticide exposure by almost 90 % by avoiding the 12 most contaminated conventional fruits and vegetables and eating the 12 least contaminated instead.

I'm thinking that synthetic pesticides, fertilizers, etc can not be used for organic crops, but crops could be contaminated by chemicals in the atmosphere just like conventional crops?

The Environmental Working Group has found that people can lower their pesticide exposure by almost 80 percent by avoiding the top twelve most contaminated fruits and vegetables (or buying them organic) and eating the least contaminated instead.

Current prices for conventionally grown foods do not reflect the costs of federal subsidies to conventional agriculture, the cost of contaminated drinking water, loss of wildlife habitat and soil erosion, or the cost of the disposal and clean up of hazardous wastes generated by the manufacturing of pesticides.

The exception is fermented soy, which I'll explain more about later and even worse GMO soy that is contaminated with large pesticide residues as the reason it is GMO is so they can spray the potent toxic herbicide Roundup on them to improve crop production by killing the weeds.

You must drink spring or filtered water as tap water can be contaminated by up to 300 chemicals, including medications, parasites, rocket fuel additives, pesticides, etc..

As a result of the data generated by scientists at U.S. Department of Agriculture and Food and Drug Administration, EWG created its Dirty Dozen ™ list of foods most commonly contaminated with pesticides, as well as, the Clean Fifteen ™ list of the foods least likely to be pesticide - tainted.

A scientist shows that baleen whales are consuming Antarctic krill contaminated by accumulated residues of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) from pesticides and industrial chemicals.

After the illegal occupiers had been expelled, they began the task of restoring land and rivers contaminated by years of pesticides.

Those crops have awful pesticide runoff that contaminate waterways, not to mention the waste generated by keeping large numbers of cows in CAFOs (concentrated animal feeding operation).