According to the National Academy of Sciences, federal pesticide standards provide too little health protection. Buy organic rice from Eagle Agricultural Products, Lundberg Family Farmers, or MacDougall's Wild Rice. Organic growers provide oats, millet, quinoa, barley, couscous, amaranth, and spelt as healthy options. Milk - Dairy companies inject cows with recombinant bovine growth hormone. Treating them with antibiotics increases the change of residue in milk.
Organic milk is widely available.
Green Beans - 60 pesticides are used on green beans. The fungicide captan and the insecticide chlorpyrifos were among the 48 pesticides most frequently found in FDA testing between 1984 and 1991. After the Alar scare in the 80's, growers are leading the integrated-pest management movement, which only resorts to chemicals when mandatory. Information is provided for educational purposes only. It is not intended as diagnosis or recommendation for treatment of disease.