An apple a day … could be filling your body with pesticides. A new study suggests that washing fruit, a precautionary measure taken by many consumers, is not enough to remove toxic chemicals and ...

Traditional fruit-cleaning operations cannot wholly remove pesticides.” That’s the grim report from a recent research study ...

Those hazardous pesticides include organophosphates ... a new study is showing that washing your produce does not remove all the pesticide residues found on food. The paper, published in the ...

It appears that washing fruit and vegetables is not enough to remove pesticides. Some will still remain on the surface, and the only way to completely get rid of them might be to peel them.

(NewsNation) — Simply washing your fruit ... does not mean the residue is at an unsafe level,” the EPA notes on its website. The agency also said tolerance levels allowed for pesticides ...