2024-04-01 07:00:09
During tests, the magazine “60 Millions de consommateurs” detected that a majority of salads sold in bags contained far too many pesticides.
7 out of 10 French people eat salads in bags
Many bagged salads are contaminated with pesticides, announces our colleagues from “60 Millions de consommateurs” who tested 26 references (13 lettuces and 13 lamb’s lettuce); In the end, 21 references present pesticide residues. Only 5 references showed no contamination, notes the magazine.
Out of 26 references, 21 contain pesticide residues!
Investigation of bagged lettuce and lamb’s lettuce shows fungicide or insecticide residues in most of them. These conventional or organic salads and all brands (national or distributor brands) are affected by the presence of pesticides.
National or distributor brands, organic or not organic, all bags are positive
Among the 21 impacted salads, 28 different molecules were detected. Eight might have at least one ‘carcinogenic, mutagenic or toxic for reproduction’ (CMR) action, according to the analyzes carried out. However, ’60 million consumers’ specifies that ‘There is theoretically no risk for health but to date, scientists know almost nothing regarding the cocktail effects between all these molecules.‘.
Overall, organic is a guarantee
Editor-in-chief, Patricia Chairopoulous adds on franceinfo: “Is organic a guarantee? Overall yes, but in our test, organic lamb’s lettuce contains a residue from the degradation of a herbicide, banned for use since 2010! We cannot know if it is an error, an involuntary contamination or a voluntary addition. This molecule being persistent in the soil, it might be a case of accidental contamination of the environment”…
#Salads in bags: are they clean? We analyzed 26 lettuces and lamb’s lettuce: 21 contained residues of #pesticides.
If regulatory thresholds are respected, the cocktail effect of these regularly consumed substances remains unknown.@TF1Infohttps://t.co/zV0l34zh4A— 60 Million Consumers (@60millions) March 29, 2024
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