At first sight, the 2017 report by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) on official national checks of pesticide residues in foods, published on Tuesday 11 April, is reassuring, but EFSA has once again ignored the toxic cocktail effect of these chemical residues, regretted Greenpeace the same day.
The technical report shows that 97.2% of the 84,341 samples analysed in 2015 were free of quantifiable residues or contained residues within the legally permitted levels (LPLs) under...