The Environmental Working Group (EWG) published its ‘2024 Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce.’
EWG listed a ‘Dirty Dozen’ fruits and vegetables that it claims are “packed with fungicides that can disrupt human hormones.”
“Across fruits and vegetables from EWG’s Dirty Dozen – the Shopper’s Guide component that identifies the 12 non-organic, or conventional, fresh produce with the most pesticides – four of the five most frequently detected chemicals are fungicides: fludioxonil, pyraclostrobin, boscalid and pyrimethanil,” EWG wrote in a press release.
“Two of these, fludioxonil and pyrimethanil, also show up in the highest average concentrations of any pesticides found on the Dirty Dozen. Both fungicides may be endocrine disruptors with the potential to harm the male reproductive system,” it continued.
“Emerging evidence suggests many widely used fungicides may disrupt human hormone systems,” said EWG Senior Toxicologist Alexis Temkin, Ph.D.
“But more studies are needed to better understand the risks they – and all pesticides – pose to humans, particularly children,” Temkin added….