French fruits and vegetables have increased amounts of pesticides over the past decade, a study by an NGO has found. It shows a continuous upward trend in the “contamination” of European fruits, despite the EU's goals to decrease use of the most dangerous products.
“Consumers eating fruits or vegetables produced in the European Union are increasingly exposed to a cocktail of the worst pesticides,” the NGO Pesticide Action Network (PAN) Europe wrote in its report, ‘Forbidden Fruit’, published Tuesday.
