Pesticides Are Everywhere! Now Your iPhone Can Help You Avoid Them

Pesticides. They are one of the most environmentally harmful aspects of industrialized agriculture, and they are the reason that so many people have started to add organic foods to their diet.

Many people think that washing their conventional fruits and vegetables before eating removes the toxic residue pesticides leave behind, but that's usually not true. Besides food, humans can also be exposed to pesticides in water and air, and those who work on farms that use pesticides are at risk for even greater exposure.

To provide consumers with current, accurate information about the dangerous pesticides that are present on the foods we eat every day, the Pesticide Action Network (PAN) recently released the What's On My Food? app for the iPhone.

This free downloadable app allows people to search for their favorite foods, to see which pesticides are used and how to best remove them. You can also search by type of pesticide to learn the dangers of ingestion. The most comprehensive datasource of it’s kind, What’s On My Food? links USDA food testing data to toxicology (i.e. health effects) data compiled from multiple authoritative sources.

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