dirty dozen

WASHINGTON, Jan. 30, 2024 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today published the 2022 Pesticide Data Program (PDP) Annual Summary,...

How many fruits and vegetables do you eat each day?  If you just sheepishly looked away, you’re not alone. According...

The produce industry always dreads the release of the Environmental Working Group’s annual Dirty Dozen, as part of its Shopper’s...

The following is a March 15, 2023, blog post from the Alliance for Food and Farming: The safety and nutritional...

WASHINGTON – Thirty years after a landmark National Academies of Sciences study warning of the dangers posed to children by pesticides, 75...

March 15, 2023 — WATSONVILLE, Calif. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — Peer reviewed research published in the Journal of Toxicology found...

This is a blog post from the Alliance for Food and Farming on February 22, 2023: First, peer reviewed research...

What effect have lists like the Dirty Dozen had on produce consumption? Lauren Scott, chief strategy officer for the International...

Teresa Thorne, executive director of the Alliance for Food and Farming (AFF) says that the Dirty Dozen is pernicious. “This...

American consumers’ produce consumption levels play a part in the pesticide residue debate. An article on produce safety in the...

The Environmental Working Group and similar groups base their arguments on the premise that EPA standards aren’t adequate to ensure...

According to the FDA’s 2019 report for its Pesticide Residue Monitoring Program, released in November 2021, “98.7 percent of domestic...

Behind the Dirty Dozen pesticide residue discussion is a much larger issue of risk- versus hazard-based assessments of food safety....

The Dirty Dozen. The World War II action classic film from 1967 still holds up well. Lee Marvin is assigned...

The new issue of Produce Blueprints has a cover story (written by me) on the industry’s favorite enemy: the Environmental...

The Environmental Working Group’s Dirty Dozen and Clean Fifteen shoppers guides to avoiding pesticide residue used to be a huge...

From the Alliance for Food and Farming: It’s time for our annual “A Dozen Reasons” list to remind everyone to...

It’s that time again. The Environmental Working Group (EWG) released its annual “Dirty Dozen” list, at a time when inaccurate...