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Meijer, Trader Joe’s, Walmart recall some packaged produce due to listeria risk

Fruits And Vegetables Are Just As Important For Your Legs As They Are For Your Heart

Eating More Fruit and Vegetables Decreases Obesity Odds

Live Scorpion Found In Bagged Spinach

Dead Bat Found Inside Package of Salad

Prenatal Pesticide Exposure May Lower IQ’s

Big Chem and Big Ag Dousing Food with Toxic Pesticides

EPA cancels Flubendiamide “too toxic” insecticide use in the US

Fruit may take away the blues

Fresh fruit and vegetables while out to sea

From DDT to Glyphosate: Rachel Carson, We Need You Again

Decoding produce PLU codes

Filmmaker Penelope Jagessar Chaffer was curious about the chemicals she was exposed to while pregnant: Could they affect her unborn child?