How worried should I be about pesticide poisoning from food?

Christine US 🔍 Enthusiast 👁 29 ⚑ Report News & Events

Experts are saying almost half of the world's farmers get poisoned by pesticides every year. That's honestly shocking - makes you wonder how much of that residue ends up on the food we buy at supermarkets and whether we should all be more paranoid about where our produce comes from.

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KE Kevin_38 US 🔍 Enthusiast 💬 61 answers ⚑

Residue levels on supermarket produce in developed countries are typically well below safety thresholds thanks to regulatory testing, so acute poisoning from food is genuinely rare - the bigger concern is long-term low-dose exposure, which is why washing produce and varying your sources makes sense but doesn't need to be paranoid.

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