Pesticide-Prone Fruits

"We're all concerned about food safety, especially when it comes to fruits and vegetables. Last year's spinach scare raised everyone's awareness for potential problems created by improper food handling. The increased demand for certified organic produce indicates that folks care about more than just how their food's handled, too; they want it to be nutritionally sound and chemically uncontaminated.

Worldwide fruit and vegetable production is, simply, big business. I'd like to believe that some kindly gentleman in blue coveralls made certain that a peach headed for my table was carefully grown, hand picked at its peak, gently packed and rushed to my supermarket; but that's a decidedly Pollyanna scenario."

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