EWG’s 2020 Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce™


from the federal Department of Agriculture. But the dirtiest pro- duce commodity, according to the USDA’s Pesticide Data Pro- gram, is not a fresh fruit or vegetable but a dried one – raisins. Traditionally, EWG’s Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Pro- duce™ has included fresh fruits and vegetables only. But because the USDA tested raisins last year for the first time since 2007, we


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early 70 percent of the fresh produce sold in the U.S. contains residues of potentially harmful chemical pesti- cides, according to EWG’s analysis of the latest test data


decided to see how they would fare on the Dirty Dozen™, our annual ranking of the fruits and vegetables with the most pesti- cides.


Almost every sample of non-organic raisins tested – 99 per-


cent – had residues of at least two pesticides. On the 2020 Dirty Dozen, raisins would rank worst of all fruits tested, including strawberries, nectarines, apples and cherries, all of which had residues of two or more pesticides on at least 90 percent of samples.


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