Typical English roast dinner potentially ‘drenched’ in 102 pesticides, says report

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• xep@discuss.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Data from the Fera pesticide usage survey for 2024, showed 102 – including seven banned in the EU – were used on seven vegetable and soft fruit categories.

  Those roast potatoes may have been sprayed with benthiavalicarb, a fungicide banned in the rest of Europe because it causes cancer. They may have also had a sprinkling of metribuzin, a herbicide, banned because its an endocrine disruptor.

  The carrots may have been treated with the insecticide spirotetramat, whose EU approval has expired and can kill bees and fish. Peas are often treated with the herbicide S-metolachlor, which poses risks to mammals and has been implicated in groundwater contamination.

  And those strawberries may have been doused with clofentezine, dimethomorph and mepanipyrim, all banned in the EU because they have been identified as endocrine disruptors and may have harmful effects on human and animal hormones.

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