Cooking Series: Cranberries. Pesticides

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Pesticides

The USDA has not tested conventional cranberries for pesticide residues since 2006, which explains their absence from the Environmental Working Group’s (EWG) Shoppers Guide to Pesticides in Produce, EWG spokesperson Sara Sciammacco told us.

Still, it’s worth noting what the Pesticide Data Program detected over a decade ago. At that time, 69 percent of sampled cranberries contained residues from a combined total of 13 different pesticides. 44 percent of all samples contained residues from one pesticide; an additional 10 percent contained residues from two pesticides. Of the detected pesticides at the time, three — acephate, chlorpyrifos and methamidophos — belong to a class of highly toxic pesticides called organophosphates.

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