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10 Times as Much of This Toxic Pesticide Could End Up on Your Tomatoes and Celery Under a New EPA Proposal (www.propublica.org)

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[+] [email protected] -6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

PSA: You can soak your veggies and fruit in a baking soda bath to break down pesticides.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

No, no you can't. Really you can't.

If it was that easy there would be a lot of happy growers who don't have to worry about Minimum Residue Limits aka MRL's. These are tested constantly and any grower that violates them can have their entire production rejected. This is especially true for products shipped internationally.

Unlike in the 70's and 80's, applying pesticides correctly is a very big deal with food for human consumption.

Today the nastiest shit is mostly on crops grown for feed where the restrictions are less.