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What to Keep In Mind About the 2024 Dirty Dozen and Clean Fifteen. The EWG has been funded in part by the organic food industry and has come under fire from toxicologists and scientists before, so ...
Avocados, sweet corn, and pineapple top the EWG’s Clean Fifteen list. The Alliance for Food Farming provides consumers with a produce resource guide at safefruitsandveggies.com with advice, tips ...
To create the Dirty Dozen, EWG analyzed 46 produce items to come up with the 12 fruits and vegetables that are most contaminated with pesticides. The produce analyzed includes both domestic and ...
The EWG promotes an annual list ranking pesticide residues on fruits and vegetables called the "Dirty Dozen", though it does not give readers context on what amounts regulatory agencies consider safe. The list cautions consumers to avoid conventional produce and promotes organic foods. [20] [21]
It’s dubbed the “Dirty Dozen” by the Environmental Working Group, or EWG, an environmental and health advocacy organization that has produced the annual report since 2004.
A US organic food advocacy group, the Environmental Working Group, is known for creating a list of fruits and vegetables referred to as the Dirty Dozen; it lists produce with the highest number of distinct pesticide residues or most samples with residue detected in USDA data. This list is generally considered misleading and lacks scientific ...
The EWG dirty dozen/clean fifteen list are clearly notable--there is no shortage of discussion of the lists in reliable secondary sources--so we can and should mention the dirty 12 and clean 15 lists on Wikipedia. And we should also mention the criticism of the lists.
The EWG recommends that consumers on the hunt for produce with low pesticide levels buy organic versions of the Dirty Dozen items and either organic or non-organic versions of the Clean Fifteen items.