Consumer Reports — the watchdog group that’s currently urging the Department of Agriculture to remove Lunchables from the National School Lunch Program — found that pesticide contamination posed serious risks in popular produce items, per a new report.
In what’s being described as its “most comprehensive review ever of pesticides in food,” Consumer Reports analyzed seven years of data from the USDA, which tests a selection of conventional and organic produce grown in or imported to the U.S. for pesticide residues on a yearly basis. The group was told by the Alliance for Food and Farming that more than 99 % of foods tested by the USDA contained pesticide residues below the EPA’s legal limits. But Consumer Reports believe many of the EPA limits are set too high.
