We also conclude that at the low doses of most human exposures the comparative hazards of synthetic pesticide residues are insignificant.

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The Working Party on Pesticide Residues, a government appointed committee of experts, analyses over 2, 000 samples of UK-produced and imported produce each year.

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The Alliance for Food and Farming says this is good science and there is no cause for alarm, no matter the number of pesticide residues found.

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Take the Aral Sea in Central Asia, now a shrunken, poisonous cesspool of pesticide residues and toxic chemicals that are causing an explosion of chronic bronchitis, cancer, typhoid and hepatitis, kidney and liver disease.

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They have commissioned new studies that will look at the impacts of neonicotinoids on bumble bees in field conditions and to understand what levels of pesticide residues and disease in honey bees are normal.

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There were concerns the development pesticide-resistant GM crops meant consumers were being exposed to increasingly toxic residues, some of which could damage embryos in the womb.

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