Michelle Schoffro Cook

An apple a day might have kept the doctor away prior to the industrialization of food growing andpreparation. But, according to research compiled by the United States Drug Administration (USDA) today__ apple contains residue of eleven different neurotoxins__zinphos, methyl chloripyrifos, diazinon, dimethoate, ethion, omthoate, parathion, parathion methyl, phosalone, and phosmet _ and the USDA was testing for only one category of chemicals known as organophosphate insecticides. That doesn__ sound too appetizing does it? The average apple is sprayed with pesticides seventeen times before it is harvested.