The Environmental Working Group (EWG), a nonprofit organization committed to promoting healthy living and eating, has released its self-described “Dirty Dozen” list for 2024. The list itself ranks non-organic produce items with the most pesticides using data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
“This year, EWG determined that 75 percent of all conventional fresh produce sampled had residues of potentially harmful pesticides,” according to the organization. “But for items on the Dirty Dozen, a whopping 95 percent of samples contain pesticides.”
