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How do pesticides get in food?

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Many foods are treated, but washed many times before it even reaches the consumer who many times will wash it anyway. It should not actually be inside the food since not enough is applied normally to penetrate the soil & there are safeguards if it does. Moisture dilutes out almost anything & would have to be much stronger than legal limit to be harmful when soil moisture comes into play.

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