1 out of 3 is bad (for 5 a day)

According to a report issued today by the Pesticide Residues Committee (a UK government advisory body) nearly a third of UK food and drink including fruit and vegetables contains residue of pesticides.

The PRC tries to spin this with a 70% of food pesticide free claim, and say the the 30% are below a health concern level. I don't buy it (I buy organic), and neither does the Soil Association who's policy director Peter Melchett has remarked that the committee is being "extraordinarily complacent and unscientific".

We're playing with stuff here that we don't really understand.