Much of the Food We Eat Contains Pesticide Residues Part 3


	Much of the Food We Eat Contains Pesticide Residues Part 3

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/fd8d4ffa-a66c-440d-9963-401cb289a0da/EAF694E8-C404-4A3A-B32D-71154B1576F5/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.newint.org/issue323/apple.htm" href="http://www.newint.org/issue323/apple.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.newint.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newint.org/issue323/apple.htm"><B><FONT size="2">
                    H is for Honey</FONT></B><FONT size="2"><FONT size="1"> 
Bees</FONT></FONT><FONT size="1"> </FONT>are severely affected 
                    by extensive pesticide use. Pyrethroids and organophosphates 
                    are toxic to bees, attacking their nervous system. French 
                    beekeepers believe that the insectide imidacloprid may explain 
                    the drastic decline of the French bee population since 1993. 
                    In some areas honey production has fallen by 60 per cent. 
                    </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newint.org/issue323/apple.htm"><B><FONT size="2">I 
              is for Ice-cream 
</FONT></B> Dairy products are the main dietary source of organochlorine 
              residues. In 1988 in the UK organochlorine residues were found in 
              44 per cent of 120 samples of milk. Cattle may be exposed to pesticides 
              in grass and other fodder crops treated deliberately with herbicides 
              or through the chemicals drifting in the air. In June 1999 Korea 
              rejected Australian<FONT size="2"><FONT size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><B><FONT size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><FONT size="2"><FONT size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><IMG width="263" height="185" align="left" src="http://www.newint.org/issue323/../ni_pix/transparent.gif" /></FONT></FONT></FONT></B></FONT></FONT> 
              beef on the grounds that it was contaminated with endosulfan which 
              is widely sprayed on cotton (see <A href="http://www.newint.org/issue323/tales.htm">Cotton tales</A>). 
              <FONT size="2"><FONT size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><B><FONT size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><FONT size="2"></FONT></FONT></B></FONT></FONT>A 
              seven-year study of pesticides in Indian milk found a high proportion 
              with residues above safe levels.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/EAF694E8-C404-4A3A-B32D-71154B1576F5/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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