Pesticides and Food Safety

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Toiya Goodlow from EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs discusses pesticides used on food, and steps to take to prevent exposure to them.

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• pesticides
• organic
• food
• residues
• safe
• children's
• health
• risk
• pesticide
• exposure

[Mayh3M09]

Pesticides can never be safe. Doubt the information these two are saying.

[csst22]

Oh come on, what bllsht!

I agree, this is a shameful propaganda. What they say goes against all studies. Any website outside the US will tell you the opposite, any.

[ladone9999]

All of Toya's advise was the exct opposite of what we should do for our health. Peel and Cook all your food? Fruits and vegetables are most nutricious raw. And much of the skin from them is healthy as well!

[FaidleyEthan]

Well if the EPA says its safe, then it MUST be true! (NOT!)

[randyslippers]

Peeling is a Dumb idea becuase heaps of nutrients live in the skins of most peelable foods. Also no one does studies of exposure to all the different pesticides at once, which is actually what is happening. THey just make sure they are safe individually. Go organic, Stop GE and pesticides, be smart and you will be safe.

[Eth3realwarrior]

2nd that

[thevincibleman]

propaganda. excellent.

could you two speak a little less like you are reading from a script?

[yinman50]

EPA has some cute girls there.

and um very interesting information?

[ramchopps]

really interesting!