The researchers did this to apples they treated with 2 pesticides: thiabendazole and phosmet. After the apples soaked in the baking soda mix for 15 minutes, neither of the two pesticides were left ...

Potatoes frequently contained high residues of chlorpropham, while blueberries were tainted by the organophosphate phosmet. Children and pregnant women should severely limit intake of high-risk ...

Why they’re a problem: One in 5 samples of domestic, conventional blueberries had residue of phosmet, a pesticide that the ...