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- 2000
- Advanta admits separation distances in UK far closer than Canada
- Advanta to pay up
- Britain's babies back baby food ban
- Buy it from farmers' markets
- Buy your festive feast from local farmers
- Cadbury's admits its chocolate contains lindane
- Call for new biotech commission to halt spread of GM seeds
- Children get raw deal from Government
- Euro MPs fail GM Test
- Farm scale trials must be called off
- First UK organic beer festival held in Birmingham
- FOE responds to Prince Philip's confidence about GM foods
- Food Standards Agency could do better
- GM farm scale trial is useless
- GM farm scale trials threaten UK honey
- GM farmers pull out of trials
- GM scientist deserves sack says Friends of the Earth
- GM trials are a farce
- Government gambling with countryside
- Government in chaos over GM seeds
- Government in shambles over GM mistake
- Government prepares to decide commercial approval for GM crops before trial ends
- Government proposes to trash GM trials
- Hormone disrupting chemicals found in baby food
- Iceland to stock organic food at non-organic prices
- Illegal GM ingredients found in supermarkets
- Lindane is banned - nearly
- More GM crops set for Wales
- MPs debate new law on GM liability
- New fears over impact of GM crops on birdlife
- Public wants pesticides banned from supermarket food
- Scientists slam GM research
- Supermarket Real Food sham
- Top insurer says no to GM pollution cover
- Wales can ban GM
- Welsh agriculture secretary bottles out of Assembly decision on GM
- Aventis criticised by Government barrister
- Baby Blair greeted with hamper of Real Food
- Biosafety Protocol Agreed
- Biotech giant clams up at GM Seed List Hearing
- Call for pesticide tax
- Church advisers say no to GM crop trials
- Diners still worry about GM food
- FOE slams Krebs over organic food
- GM contamination inevitable admits Meacher
- GM food scare hits US taco lovers
- GM seed fiasco means farmers start to dig up crops
- GM-free diet for Iceland livestock
- Government GM policy in tatters
- Government set to give go-ahead to commercial licensing
- Hold on the milk says top scientist
- Kiss of death for GM seed
- Pesticides level rise in fruit AND veg
- Promising green speech from Blair?
- Shock admission that GM crops are already growing in the UK
- Supermarkets back organic farming bill
Pesticides level rise in fruit AND veg19 September 2000
Significant increases in the quantity of fresh fruit and veg containing pesticide residues have been found over the past year reveal a Government report published this week. Forty three per cent of fresh fruit and veg samples were found to contain traces of pesticides. Last year's figure was 33 per cent. The results are contained in the 1999 report from the Working Party on Pesticide Residues.
"The public will be dismayed to learn that almost half the fresh fruit and veg they are eating contains pesticides. The Government encourages people - including pregnant women and babies - to eat more fresh fruit and veg, so they should be doing more to enure that they are pesticide-free," said Friends of the Earth Real Food Campaigner, Sandra Bell. "It is also unacceptable for Government advisors to say that pesticide residue levels are safe when no one knows what long-term effect pesticides may have on our health.
Earlier this month Friends of the Earth issued a report highlighting a number of flaws in the pesticide regulations, casting doubts over Government assertions that pesticides residues in our food are safe. For example no consideration is given to cocktails of pesticides possibly interacting to produce unforeseen effects. In addition there's no testing for hormone disrupters.
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