Pesticides in Food: Beyond the Surface

08-Aug-2024 - Pesticides and herbicides are critical to ensuring food security worldwide, but these substances can present a safety risk to people who unwittingly ingest them. Protecting human health, therefore, demands sensitive analytical methods to identify even trace levels of potentially harmful ...

Are your strawberries bland? Pesticides could be to blame

How fungicides can ruin the sweetness and nutritional value of strawberries

01-Mar-2023 - Have you ever bitten into a plump, red strawberry, only to find it bland and watery? Certain pesticides might be responsible. A team reporting in ACS’ Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry has found that two common strawberry fungicides can impact cellular mechanisms, creating berries with ...