Food should be good for you. But some foods aren’t. Pesticides are sprayed on millions of acres every year and some of them end up on your food. Our broken farm subsidy system encourages over production of the wrong food. EWG is pushing for better policy and more sustainable ways of farming that produce healthy food in a healthy environment.
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Thousands of everyday food products potentially could contain substances that carry unknown health risks, a new EWG analysis finds.
Although Congress intended for most food chemicals to be rigorously...
Washing fruits and vegetables before eating them helps reduce the amount of pesticide residue on produce and improves overall food safety.
For this guide, EWG scientists reviewed dozens of peer...
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Did you know that popular citrus fruits, like oranges, grapefruit and mandarins, might also come with a dose of hormone-disrupting fungicides?
