In the rumor uses data from USDA. USDA has Pesticide Data Program, PDP is every year examines in the vegetables fruit the pesticide residue quantity, started from 1991 to carry on. This project examines every year the sample quantity from initial more than 7000, surpassed to 2000 10,000, and increased year by year. The PDP examination agriculture remnant goal is to appraise the agricultural chemicals quantity which in the American recipes takes, but determines food to be whether qualified. Whether to examine agricultural surviving to be closely related with the examination technology. Examines remains does not mean these foods on the injurious to health. The rumor lists “the agricultural chemicals harm” to exist truly, but left the dosage to discuss that the harm did not have the significance completely. What we need to pay attention: In the fruits and vegetables pesticide residue, will bring the big risk? In the US, EPA limits the quantity the standard to each kind of agricultural chemicals’ in food residual quantity formulation. According to definition which limits the quantity, does not surpass this standard agriculture to be remnant, the health risk which brings may neglect. If the PDP examination value surpassed has limited the quantity the standard, or will examine EPA not yet to formulate the standard agricultural chemicals, PDP will notify gives food and FDA. These EPA has not assigned to limit the quantity the standard the agricultural chemicals, generally is not uses in the vegetables fruit’s production brings, but wanders from the air or the water. In 1993 to 2003 period, has examined the sample altogether has 102058, examines the agricultural remnant sample to have 58950, probably occupies the examination sample number 58%. And surpasses the EPA formulation to limit the quantity the standard to have 158, EPA does not have the formulation to limit the quantity the standard to have 2533, occupies separately 0.15% and 2.5%.
But also some which corresponds with this report “dirtiest 12 kind of fruits and vegetables” as well as “cleanest 15 kind of fruits and vegetables” place. This place is one is called Environmental Working Group the environmental protection organization to do based on the PDP data. EWG is already not the government Control section, is also not an authoritative academic organization, but is only an initiative environmental protection folk organization. If front introduced such, can examine the agriculture remnantly not to be equal to that has the health risk. The EWG place has neglected this factor completely, only used one “to have” “does not have” or “many” “few” such simple classification, could not reflect in these fruits and vegetables the agriculture to be remnant objectively and health relations real situation. “the dirtiest 12 kind of fruits and vegetables” such place, will suggest that the consumer will be far away from these vegetables fruit, but this by no means EWG goal. In its website, they passed “FAQ” to carry on have clarified. For instance the question 3, are “these agricultural chemicals whether to mean I should not eat the vegetables and the fruit?”The website reply is: “, does not eat your vegetables and the fruit. Surpasses the risk which richly including the vegetables fruit’s recipes to the health profit the agriculture takes in remnantly.”In the American media in reported when this event generally also talked about this question.