Thirteen European countries are selling apples in markets and supermarkets with a concerning abundance of pesticide residues, commonly known as "cocktails of pesticides", according to an NGO report urging the European Union to regulate exposure to these chemicals.
Belgium, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, and Switzerland have reported contamination in apples, according to the latest report from Pesticide Action Network (PAN) Europe, which criticises the EU's risk assessment procedure for looking at pesticides in silos and disregarding the "cocktail" effect.
