The Alliance for Food and Farming (AFF) is a non-profit organization comprised of both organic and conventional farmers in the US. The AFF has developed an online pesticide residue calculator to measure the safety of the most popular fruits and vegetables when it concerns pesticide levels.
When considering the safety of any substance, it is important to understand what is known as a “dose-response relationship,” the AFF said. This means that almost every substance can be toxic at some level. For every product there is a point, or a dose level, that will not produce a response in a living organism. In the world of pesticide regulation, that point is called the No Observed Adverse Effect Level.
With the online calculator, this level can be determined for selected fruits and vegetables as it concerns an adult man and woman, and a teen as well as a child.
Source: potatonewstoday.com
