Kale joins the ranks of the annual 'Dirty Dozen' pesticide list

Photos: The 2019 pesticide 'Dirty Dozen' fruits and vegetables
Strawberries – Strawberries topped the list in 2019 for the fourth year in a row. The most recent report states they are the fresh produce most likely to remain contaminated with pesticide residues, even after being washed. Testing found that the dirtiest one contained 23 separate pesticides residues.
Hide Caption
1 of 12

Photos: The 2019 pesticide 'Dirty Dozen' fruits and vegetables
Spinach – Spinach, in the second spot this year, had relatively high concentrations of a potentially brain-damaging neurotoxic insecticide called permethrin. It was detected on 76% of spinach samples.
Hide Caption
2 of 12