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    L’80% delle mele spagnole contiene residui di diversi pesticidi tossici contemporaneamente

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    2. St3fano_ on

      What’s the big news here? Are those pesticides banned or above the limits set by EU rules? If not it’s a massive nothingburger, like being surprised that there’s alcohol in the blood of someone who drank a beer

    3. woahdudee2a on

      we’ve a similar problem in my country. i spoke to a farmer about this and he claimed they were no longer able to export their stuff due to the pesticide amount, there was only one buyer and that buyer was somehow allowed to export it

    4. IvanStarokapustin on

      So Europe never needed the Mercosul trade deal at all. It’s already got all the toxic substances that it needs tax free. Guess the farmers blocking roads were just afraid that they would be outdone by Brazilian chemicals.

    5. efqf on

      Interesting timing. Is it implying South American (Mercosur) apples are better?

    6. JHMfield on

      “The combined effects of these substances have not yet been officially assessed.”

      Let’s hope they’re gonna follow up. Could be worth being cautious over, or could just be fearmongering.

    9. squirrel_exceptions on

      Thing is, «residue» can be trace amounts, and if so completely irrelevant to anything.

      We’ve become really, really good at identifying chemicals, even an infinitesimal amount far below any level where they’d do anything to you. We breath in and ingest hundreds of different substances daily that would be toxic in high doses, many of them completely natural ones. And that’s perfectly fine.

      Any toxicologist will tell you «the dose makes the poison». PFAS should be banned though, as it’s bioaccumulating forever chemicals.

    11. FissileAlarm on

      Washing in water with bicarbonate is the way to go. But it’s very stupid that we have to clean poison from our food. I try to buy organic, but the price difference is often huge. For a cucumber it’s just 30% extra, but for banana’s it’s 100% and for blueberries it’s almost 200%. So sometimes I choose for poisened things and try to clean the poison off.

    12. Nebuladiver on

      Rubbish fear mongering science ignorant organisation. Or simply banking on the organic money. Bunch of misinformation.

    14. elmojorisin on

      Are these organic apples or non organic one ? Would be interested to see the comparison.

    16. beginner75 on

      That’s what happens when you’re BRICed. You follow their ways.

    17. cthagngnoxr on

      And that’s what I get on my feed after reading an article about how even a tiny amount of pesticide exposure can cause irreversible damage to your descendants, leading to complete infertility in 15-20 generations

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