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Saturday, April 21, 2018

The false and misleading metric shell game: EWG version


Here’s an analogy. You’re given a choice of piggy banks but are told only the number of coins each contains, not their denomination. Would it be reasonable to just choose the one with the most coins without asking any further questions?  Wouldn’t it make more sense to try and find out the actual types and numbers of coins? So it is with pesticide residues; the real measure of risk is determined not by how frequently residues are detected, but by how the amounts detected compare with the maximum tolerance level.


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