Shocking report reveals the food most likely to be peppered with annoying pesticides – and it is not all fruit and vegetables

Common caste staples have been recorded with forbidden pesticides, a new report has been unveiled.

Traces of the chemicals were found in herbs and herbs such as dried basil, parsley and cumin, as well as dried beans, chili and honey.

High levels of the detected substances can cause digestive problems, while long -term exposure is linked to cancer.

The report of the European Food Safety Report has analyzed data from 132,793 samples of a series of food imported into Europe, including fruit and vegetables, and discovered that two percent of the tested legal limits were equal to 3000 products.

They discovered that 42 percent of the products contained some remaining pesticide traces, but these were considered safe.

The European Union has strict rules for pesticides with only 0.1 micrograms per kilo permitted products.

The analysis showed that the chemicals on unsafe levels were found in unprocessed products such as peppers, dragon fruit, cumin seeds and grape leaves.

Some foods, such as chili peppers, were found to contain shocking numbers of different pesticides – up to 37.

Processed products such as dried beans and herbs were 10 percent of the unsafe products, the analysis showed.

Ethylene oxide, a pesticide that was not approved in Europe, was detected in 40 samples. The chemical can cause headache, nausea, diarrhea and respiratory difficulties. Long -term exposure is also linked to cancer.

The report showed that the greatest risk of importing food from countries outside the EU.

The most important countries from which non-compliant products were found were Turkey, India and Egypt. Although most of these shipments were stopped at the border.

Levels of pesticides on products from these countries were found to be three times higher than in the Union.

The report also found a number of infringements imported into honey and rice products from outside the EU.

Testing brown rice revealed that some products contain tricyclazole, propiconazole, imidacloprid and chlorm equatchloride – all of which are forbidden in the EU.

According to the report, a maximum of 37 pesticides were reported in a monster of chili peppers from Cambodia

A systematic review of 2024, published in the Journal of Toxicology Reports, showed that high exposure to pesticides can be linked to an increased risk of cancer, infertility and breathing problems, but the effect is probably with agricultural workers.

In their 2023, campaigners reported Pesticide Action Network that almost all fruits contain some traces of pesticides.

Pesticides used in agriculture can often leave detectable traces of chemicals in or on our food known as ‘residues’.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), more than 1,000 different pesticides are used worldwide.

They are used in agriculture to control weeds, insect plague and disease features such as mosquitoes, ticks, rats and mice. They also enable farmers to protect the quantity and quality of crops.

The consumption of pesticides has grown almost 60 percent since 1990 to 2.66 billion kg (5.86 billion LBS) by 2020.

But the elderly, children and unborn babies are especially susceptible to the adverse effects of pesticides.

At the end of last year, campaign group Pesticide Action Network UK (PAN UK) Government test data to prove 46 pesticides with links to cancer were detected when importing products to Great Britain.

They say that washing or peeling fruit and vegetables may reduce exposure to pesticides, because some residues that appear on the surface are eliminated, in particular traces of soil that can contain harmful bacteria.

However, they warn that this not all pesticides that are used if some will remove ‘systemically’, which means that they are actually absorbed by a plant when they are applied to seeds, soil or leaves and the residues are therefore set in the body of the products themselves.