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where to buy your pesticides?
| All the best, especially in the heart: wave supermarket comparison: where to buy your pesticides?+ 15.02.2007 + The supermarket chain Kaiser's Tengelmann, Edeka and Rewe sell the most heavily contaminated with toxic pesticides in fruit and vegetables in Germany. This is the result of a test of Greenpeace. Cut into the largest independent study of fruit and vegetables, the book chains Lidl and Aldi the other hand, are the best. The product of the three laggards has three to five times more violations of the limit. Kaufhof, Real and Billa (Rewe Austria) are in the midfield. The results of the new supermarket rankings Greenpeace just released along with other comparative tests in the free shopping guide, "Food without pesticides. "The bad news is put in fruit and vegetables in supermarkets are still too many pesticides. No offering of the supermarkets was tested satisfactorily, "said Manfred Krautter, chemistry expert at Greenpeace. "The good news: less poison in the food need not be expensive. The discounters Aldi and Lidl have after our first test in 2005, done much to reduce the exposure to pesticides and are now hanging from the competition. The chains can apparently very quickly on a better product if they want to. It is worth So, to watch where you shop. Fully recommended, however, is only organic products. " pesticides in food can affect hormone levels and immune system, cause cancer or damage the nervous system. A quarter of the tested products evaluated Greenpeace because of excessive pesticides levels as "not recommended". Lidl was 16 percent, 34 percent of the Tengelmann products. In 12 percent of the samples were even reached the legal limits or exceeded. In two percent of the samples, especially grapes and lettuce, then put high loads that their consumption can endanger the health of young children. Also were frequently Residues of illegal pesticides found. Greenpeace filed a criminal complaint against executives of retail chains and calls for those responsible for the disqualification of the commercial law. "The bustle of the food trade threatens the health of consumers. Minister Horst Seehofer and the Minister for Consumer countries need to improve these problems quickly beseitigenund the controls significantly, "says Krausz. For the test, Greenpeace bought last fall, 576 fruit and vegetable samples at the leading supermarket chains. Apples, grapes, peaches / nectarines, mangos / papayas, tomatoes, peppers, lettuce and arugula from onventionellem Cultivation were tested for 250 pesticides. The tested companies cover about three quarters of the German food market. Lidl has moved up from last place to first after the sales of the controversial group according to the Greenpeace-test was broken in 2005. |
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