Iron County Record | 1965-05-06 | Page 5 | Pesticides in Foods-Not a Problem |

Type	issue
Date	1965-05-06
Paper	Iron County Record
Language	eng
City	Cedar City
County	Iron
Rights	No Copyright - United States (NoC-US)
Publisher	Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
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Article Title	Pesticides in Foods-Not a Problem
Type	article
Date	1965-05-06
Paper	Iron County Record
Language	eng
City	Cedar City
County	Iron
Page	5
OCR Text	Show PESTICIDES IN FOODS NOT A PROBLEM Pesticide residues are detect able in the American food supply by today's highly sendiive ami-lytical ami-lytical methods, but the amount's of such residues are insignificant insignifi-cant from a health standpoint, according to findings recently announced an-nounced by the Food and Drug Administration of the U. S. Department De-partment of Health, Education, and Welfare. The FDA has made public the results of the latest of its continuing "total diet" studies stu-dies undertaken to discover the quantity of pesticides in all kinds of food and drink consumed dally. dal-ly. Pesticide levels found in the test samples were generally less than 1 of the safe legal tolerance, toler-ance, and many of the most commonly com-monly used pesticides were not detected at all.
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