The Nutritarian

Healthy Eating Insight

To Be, or Not to Be Organic: “Dirty Dozen” and “Clean 15”

That is the question. The Environmental Working Group (EWG) used the results of nearly 43,000 tests for pesticides on produce collected by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) between 2000 and 2004, to produce a ranking of commonly eaten fruits & vegetables.[17]  Wikidpedia, 2012.  The EWG lists the “Dirty Dozen” and a “Clean […]

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