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Thank you for your helpful and thoughtful reply! Potatoes and spinach are two of my dietary staples, so it is alarming to see them on the "dirty dozen" list.

Thank you for your helpful and thoughtful reply! Potatoes and spinach are two of my dietary staples, so it is alarming to see them on the "dirty dozen" list. Would scrubbing, washing, peeling, cooking, etc do something to the "pesticide residue" found on these vegetables? Occupational exposure is real and serious, and shows what might happen with chronic exposure. There are documentaries and videos that show the hands of field workers in California. They bubble and peel and blister and discolor, all from pesticides.

PaulHoule 10y ago
Yes, all of those things will help.
efm 10y ago
tl;dr The "dirty dozen" list is not backed up by evidence. If you read the conclusion of the paper: In summary, findings conclusively demonstrate that consumer exposures to the ten most frequently detected pesticides on EWG's “Dirty Dozen” commodity list are at negligible levels and that the EWG methodology is insufficient to allow any meaningful rankings among commodities. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3135239/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3135239/
rpenm 10y ago
From the cited paper: "In summary, findings conclusively demonstrate that consumer exposures to the ten most frequently detected pesticides on EWG's “Dirty Dozen” commodity list are at negligible levels and that the EWG methodology is insufficient to allow any meaningful rankings among commodities."