{"id":6505,"date":"2018-01-17T05:59:06","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T21:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.envguide.com\/import-fruit-and-vegetable-shopping-guide\/"},"modified":"2018-06-27T04:05:06","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T20:05:06","slug":"import-fruit-and-vegetable-shopping-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/us.envguide.com\/import-fruit-and-vegetable-shopping-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Imported Fruits and Vegetables Shopping Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As the Spring Festival approaches, families will begin to reunite together. Currently, more and more families are choosing to buy imported fruits and vegetables in order to enhance their happiness and entertain their guests. Some examples are the California cherry, the Philippines pineapple, Valencia oranges, Argentine red shrimp, etc. An array of imported ingredients and large-scale choices of space make us dizzy. Does the high prices of imported fruits and vegetables equate to higher quality? How do you buy fruits and vegetables abroad? From the editor’s point of view of pesticide residues we introduce the “2018 Spring Festival Import Guide Selection of fruits and vegetables”.<\/p>\n

Pesticides are unique among manufactured chemical products. Unlike other chemical products that are designed for a certain purpose and may have toxic properties as an unintended side effect, pesticides are intentionally toxic\u2014toxic by design. They are made to interfere with biological functions in living organisms and are manufactured and released into our environment and food supply, not in spite of their toxicity but because of their toxicity. Fully understanding and documenting the full range of negative effects on nontargeted living organisms\u2014including humans\u2014requires long-term and in-depth study.<\/p>\n

Because of the inherent toxicity of pesticides, medical and public health experts have long raised concerns. For example, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) points out that there is \u201ca growing body of literature that suggests that pesticides may induce chronic health complications in children, including neurodevelopmental or behavioral problems, birth defects, asthma, and cancer.\u201d<\/p>\n

The President\u2019s Cancer Panel of the National Institutes of Health writes that exposure to pesticides has been linked to brain\/central nervous system, breast, colon, lung, ovarian, pancreatic, kidney, testicular, and stomach cancers, as well as Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin lymphoma, multiple myeloma, and soft tissue sarcoma. Approximately 40 different EPA-registered pesticides that are currently on the market are classified as known, probable, or possible human carcinogens. Although 40 known, probable, or possible human carcinogens may be a disconcerting number in and of itself, it occupies a small percentage of the approximately 900 registered active ingredients in use today.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, many of these chemicals have not been proved noncarcinogenic but rather fall into the cancer classifications of \u201cnot likely to be carcinogenic to humans\u201d and \u201cnot classifiable\u201d (because of a lack of sufficient information on which to base an assessment). The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) acknowledges that the associations between pesticide exposure and certain cancer and noncancer chronic health effects are well documented in the peer-reviewed literature and sets tolerance levels for residues to try to protect the public and environment from adverse effects.<\/p>\n

EWG, a non-profit research group, found 70% of the thousands of analyzed samples contained at least some pesticides. Altogether, the group found 178 different types of pesticides.<\/p>\n

Strawberries topped the Environmental Working Group’s “Dirty Dozen” list of produce with the most pesticides. It’s the second straight year strawberries have led the list, which has been published since 2004 and is based on U.S. Department of Agriculture tests of 48 types of produce.<\/p>\n