dirty dozen

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...

The Environmental Working Group (EWG) released its contentious Dirty Dozen and Clean Fifteen annual guides for consumers to avoid pesticide...

April 05, 2022 — WATSONVILLE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Despite significant criticism by the scientific and nutrition communities as well as continued declining...

From the Alliance for Food and Farming March 31, 2022– Despite peer reviewed research showing it is scientifically unsupportable and negatively...

We learned about a new and disturbing statistic from a registered dietitian – 13 million children in the U.S. live...

This is a blog post from the Alliance for Food and Farming The Centers for Disease Control has issued a...

For over 25 years, the Environmental Working Group (EWG) has released its so-called “dirty dozen” list, which inaccurately disparages popular,...

Editor’s note: A previous version of this story failed to include pesticide data background critical to understanding the issue. That...

In the slew of emails I get per day, there is usually an item or two about bacterial contamination of...