USDA testing finds 30-plus unapproved pesticides on the herb cilantro

[dixiegrrrrl]

How many "approved" pesticides on that stuff, I wonder?

"At least 34 unapproved pesticides showed up on cilantro samples analyzed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture as part of the agency's routine testing of a rotating selection of produce. Cilantro was the first fresh herb to be tested in the 20-year-old program.

"We are not really sure why the cilantro came up with these residues," said Chris Pappas, a chemist who oversees the Virginia-based USDA pesticide testing. Researchers suspect growers may have confused guidelines for cilantro and flat-leaf parsley, for which more pesticides are approved.

Washing did not remove the unapproved pesticides found on cilantro samples tested by USDA."

http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/ct-met-cilantro-pesticide-20110531,0,3058450.story

[Taverner]

1. Jezus fuck, just after I learn to like that stuff...

It goes out and gets all toxic...

[myrna minx]

2. Wow - just in time for the GOP to defund the USDA along with anything else

that's for the public good. :nuke:

[SpiralHawk]

3. Go organic. Go local. If you value health for self and family.

The corporate industrial model of so-called 'agriculture' with its pesicides, herbicides, fungicides, preservatives, clones, irradiation, and genetically mutant crapola in EVERYTHING is leading America and the world toward Hell in a handbasket...

[End Of The Road]

4. Cilantro has NO known pests!

And furthermore, it bolts and dies so quickly you'd have to be spraying it constantly if it did have pests.

Jeez, 34 pesticides when none were necessary.

[formercia]

5. Grow your own

Once you have it in an area, it will self-seed. It does well in poor soil and tastes much better than the over-fed crap sold in the supermarket.

My patch has survived minus 20 F. temperatures and hot weather just makes it taste better.