The safety and nutritional benefits of fruits and vegetables is verified by decades of science. Toxicology studies and analyses confirm the safety while nutrition research shows the numerous health benefits of eating a produce-rich diet. The body of scientific research should reassure consumers that whether they choose organic or conventional produce, they can eat both with confidence and the right choice is to always eat more.
— Read on geneticliteracyproject.org/2023/03/20/scientists-rebuke-environmental-working-groups-dirty-dozen-list-of-pesticide-soaked-vegetables-and-fruits/
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Concerned about pesticide levels in food? Environmental Working Group’s Dirty Dozen list ignores organic pesticides while misrepresenting conventional trace chemical dangers – Genetic Literacy Project
The Environmental Working Group wants to insure allied journalists like Sheila Kaplan that their new “dirty dozen” list is almost ready to be copied and pasted into articles promoting the organic industry.
— Read on geneticliteracyproject.org/2023/02/27/concerned-about-pesticide-levels-in-food-environmental-working-groups-dirty-dozen-list-ignores-organic-pesticides-while-misrepresenting-conventional-trace-chemical-dangers/
Viewpoint: Challenging fearmongering — Environmental Working Group’s annual ‘Dirty Dozen’ uses chemophobia to scare people about safe produce – Genetic Literacy Project
EWG claims that it is not out to scare the public, that it only strives to alert consumers as to which fruits and vegetables harbour the most pesticide residues and should therefore, if possible, be purchased in their organic versions. That may be the stated motive, but I suspect EWG is not averse to the donations reaped by the wide publicity the Dirty Dozen list generates.
— Read on geneticliteracyproject.org/2023/01/26/viewpoint-challenging-fearmongering-environmental-working-groups-annual-dirty-dozen-uses-chemophobia-to-scare-people-about-safe-produce/
Afraid of Environmental Working Group’s ‘Dirty Dozen’ list? Here’s 12 reasons you shouldn’t be | Genetic Literacy Project
Many regular food shoppers anxiously await the results of the Environmental Working Group’s annual “Dirty Dozen” list. Even if you don’t know what or who
— Read on geneticliteracyproject.org/2021/04/01/afraid-of-environmental-working-groups-dirty-dozen-list-heres-12-reasons-you-shouldnt-be/
Podcast: Coronavirus and food safety; debunking the ‘Dirty Dozen’; COVID-19 cure worse than the disease? | Genetic Literacy Project
As the world takes unprecedented measures to blunt the coronavirus pandemic, some commentators argue ‘the cure is worse than the disease’ as it relates to
— Read on geneticliteracyproject.org/2020/03/31/podcast-coronavirus-and-food-safety-debunking-the-dirty-dozen-covid-19-cure-worse-than-the-disease/
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