85% of the Food We Eat has Pesticide Residues

85% of the Food We Eat has Pesticide Residues

New government data offers a potentially unappetizing assessment of the U.S. food supply: Residues of many types of bug-killing pesticides, fungicides and weed-killing chemicals have been found in roughly 85 percent of thousands of foods tested. Data recently released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture shows varying levels of pesticide residues in everything from mushrooms to…