Sentences with phrase «much pesticide residue»

• Spinach samples had an average of twice as much pesticide residue by weight than any other crop.

Researchers calculated whether men were likely to be high pesticide absorbers or low or medium pesticide absorbers using a US national database which evaluates how much pesticide residue is expected to remain on various foods, depending on how they are usually eaten.

(Note: wash well to remove as much pesticide residue as possible.)

Organic apples don't have nearly as much pesticide residue, either.

Spinach samples had an average of twice as much pesticide residue by weight than any other crop.

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The most thoroughly reported story (though even this did not go much beyond the CanWest chain) was the revelation that Canada was about to «harmonize» its regulations, setting limits for pesticide residue on fruits and vegetables.

His deregulation economic agenda will affect every other aspect of Canadian life: self - regulation in food safety; self - regulation in airline safety; «harmonising» regulation with the deregulated U.S. on pesticide residues on fruits and vegetables; abandoning separate Canadian testing of new drugs and much more.

I've been slowly trying to transition our family to organic fabrics in our clothing and bedding as much as possible after finding out that cotton is one of the dirtiest crops, sprayed with large amounts of pesticides and herbicides during its cultivation and residue of these chemicals remain in finished textile products.

The reason for this is that so much of the pesticides are concentrated in the lemon's thick membrane (the peel) that any residue which makes it to the inside of the fruit would be so trace that there's no way it could make any difference or be harmful in any way.

Be sure to wash everything thoroughly to remove pesticide and fertilizer residues as much as possible.

Groundwater contamination is rife — there's the chromium in the Erin Brokovitch case, there's MTBE in groundwater all across the state of California, and other areas have rocket fuel residues like perchlorate, commonly found in small amounts in much lettuce grown in the U.S. Agricultural drainage is also full of fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides, which ends up in rivers and lakes that feed into municipal water supplies.