What's on your produce

Residue detected is not the same as unsafe. Nearly every detection sits far below the legal EPA limit. Across the whole dataset only … of samples were actually over a limit; a further … carried a pesticide with no limit set for that crop, which is a registration technicality and usually a trace amount. Use this to decide where buying organic buys you the most — not as a reason to eat less produce, because the case for eating it is not close.