Close
Contact Us
Help
Login
Register
0
Selected
Invert selection
Deselect all
Deselect all
Click here to refresh results
Click here to refresh results
Go to Login page
Hide details
Add to lightbox
Add to cart
Get URL
Keywords
Actions and protests
Apples (fruits)
Day
Ecological farming
Eye contact
Food
Food for Life (campaign title)
Greenpeace people
KWCI (GPI)
One person
Outdoors
Pesticides
Portraits
Props
Sunny
Volunteers
Women
Ecological Agriculture and Pesticide Free Apples Activity in Slovakia
Greenpeace tested 126 apple samples, of which 109 were conventionally produced and the remainder organic. The apples were purchased from 23 supermarket chains, and tested by an independent laboratory for a broad range of pesticide residues.
Containers
Shoot:
Ecological Agriculture and Pesticide Free Apples Activity in Slovakia
Greenpeace tested 126 apple samples, of which 109 were conventionally produced and the remainder organic. The apples were purchased from 23 supermarket chains, and tested by an independent laboratory for a broad range of pesticide residues.
While all organic apples tested are free of pesticides, 83% of the tested conventional apples were contaminated with pesticide residues – with 60% containing two or more substances. Half of the pesticides found are known to be toxic to aquatic organisms, like water fleas and fish, or to bees and other beneficial insects.
The apples were purchased in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Spain and Switzerland and originate from national production. This Greenpeace analysis confirms the results obtained from water and soil samples taken earlier this year in apple plantations all across Europe, where many pesticide residue cocktails were found.
Conceptually similar
Unique identifier:
GP0STPDUP
Type:
Image
Shoot date:
24/10/2015
Locations:
Bratislava
,
Europe
,
Slovakia
Credit line:
© Juraj Rizman / Greenpeace
Size:
1999px × 2999px 5.18 MB
Ranking:
★★★★ (E)