Some types of fruits and vegetables Can increase the level of harmful Pesticides In your body, new research has been found.
Pesticides have been linked to cancer, hormone disruptions, Breeding damage and neurotoxicity in children with the remains of these Chemical Often these produce are revealed.
Study, Washington DC-based scientists operated by scientists Environmental work groupIt was found that the participants consumed more yield, including strawberrySpinach and bell chili were high levels of pesticides in their urine.
Alexis Temkin, vice -president of science and leading writer of the study at EWG, said, “Conclusions say that what we eat directly affects the level of pesticides in our body.”
“It is necessary to produce food for a healthy diet, but it can also increase in contact with pesticides.
“This study makes the previous work that shows that some fruits and vegetables are a major route of pesticide risk,” said Temin. “Young children and pregnant people are susceptible to the damage caused by especially exposure.”
Researchers collected data from the US Agriculture Department on the remains of pesticides in the yield from 2013-18, before combining dietary questionnaire reactions and urine samples from 1,837 participants.
Using this data, EWG created a ‘diet pesticide exposure score’ to estimate the risk of people based on those fruits and vegetables, and pesticide levels on that food items.
It was determined how many times and how often each chemical was detected, as well as the concentration and toxicity of each insecticide.
The results showed a clear link between the levels of these pesticides that were found in their urine, and what specific yield they consumed.
However, the relationship between production consumption and pesticide levels was only evidence when the potatoes were excluded from the test.
It is believed that they can be consumed due to the versatile nature of potatoes and various methods, it is difficult to estimate the insecticide risk accurately, and hence they slant the results.
The study also found that many more pesticides need to be identified and studied, given that people are now exposed to a wide range of agricultural chemicals.
Despite the years of research connecting low-level pesticides from health risks, regulators fail to be responsible for cumulative risk from a mixture of pesticides.
The report encourages people to eat a lot of fruits and vegetables, but to switch to organic from traditional yield.
EWG Science analyst Varun Subramaniam said, “This study was possible only to strengthen federal data, highlighting why strong public health agencies should remain the top priority for policy makers.”
He said, “Pesticide residue testing and CDC biomanitating data represent the kind of research that only the government can provide – on the scale that no private sector or educational efforts can match,” he said.