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Re: organic produce - is it worth the cost?
Old 07-20-2006, 01:01 PM   #4
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The 2004 PDP found four
or more residues in 11 percent of the samples tested. Over 12 percent
of the sweet bell peppers tested had seven or more residues. The average
conventional apple had 3.6 residues in 2004. PDP apple testing in 2003
showed that a consumer had about a 2.5 percent chance of selecting an
apple with seven or more residues, and a 2.3 percent chance of getting an
apple with no residues.


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Each year the PDP usually finds one or a few conventional samples mislabeled as
organic. An organic sweet bell pepper contained 8 residues in 2004 testing.


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