Alan Gould wrote:
In article , Nick Apostolakis
writes

what is your opinion and practice about this?


In a lifetime of vegetable and fruit growing I have never used
manufactured chemical pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, insecticides
or fertilisers. There is no need to pollute food with such poisons in my
organic growing system. Their use is banned by law in production of food
to be sold to the public as organic.

well the original question was targeted more to the case study that you
buy a vegetable from the market.
could it be better to leave it for some days in the refrigerator to let
the pesticide levels to drop to a minimum?

in other words what are the degradation factors of a pesticide?
i found a link at the net http://www.stadiumturf.com/degradation.htm

that explains all i wanted.
the answer to my question about the refrigeration above is no...


btw it does not matter if you use or not pesticieds in your own garden
(of course it is better to not use them) it is possible that you can get
them through other agriculturla procuts as milk, meat etc.

so even if you do not use pesticides you could be eating pesticides all
the same.
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