A healthy diet includes ample portions of fruits and vegetables, but not the unhealthy dose of pesticides found in about one in five of the produce examined by Consumer Reports. An examination of 59 common fruits and vegetables found pesticides posed significant risks in 20% of them, from ...
Deadline for Filing Annual Pesticide Production Reports — March 1, 2025 Bergeson & Campbell, P.C. on 2/4/2025 The March 1, 2025, deadline for all establishments, foreign and domestic, that produce pesticides, devices, or active ingredients to file their annual production for the 2024 ...
The shift from urban markets selling fresh produce to commercially prepared and processed foods is seemingly contributing to the trend towards processed and imported foods in urban diets, as it is assumed that dietary preferences are changing and access to nutrient-rich foods is restricted by the ...
including industrial hemp) wants to knowingly produce unsafe products. The risks of ignoring safety are real and tangible. Whether it is20+ years in jailfor being an executive of a company that knowingly sold adulterated products and was linked to...
Public Perceptions and Pesticides - A Case Study of the Willapa Bay Oyster Bed Spraying Permit of 2015 Aquaculture has been identified as a way to meet increasing global seafood demands while wild-catch fishery production has been stagnant in recent years. In the United States, it may also be...
pesticides, and herbicides, by half. Here, we used komatsuna (Japanese mustard spinach,Brassica rapavar.perviridis) as a model vegetable to study the environmental impact of low-input farming and ways to promote the purchase of organically and low-input farmed vegetables. We first assessed greenho...
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) certifies produce as organic if it is grown without the use of prohibited substances, including most synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. Organic products must also be free of bioengineered (i.e., GMO) ingredients. ...
Only these two places can produce sweet potatoes that taste very different. We’ve tried them all [sweet potatoes produced in different places]!” Such professional knowledge and the associated creativity may not be relevant to an existing product to start with, and instead may gradually evolve ...
Plant scientists have used genetic engineering on seeds to produce crop plants that are highly resistant to insect damage.Unfortunately, the seeds themselves are quite expensive, and the plants require more fertilizer and water to grow well than normal ones.Thus, for most farmers the savings on p...
The focus of this confirmatory research was on consumer attitudes towards the sustainability of fashion brands and how these attitudes influence their purchasing decisions. The aim was to explore if the gap between attitudes and purchasing behaviour was