Apples, celery, and bell peppers may be hazardous to your health, according to some environmental activists.  At least that's the impression you might get reading the Environmental Working Group's Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce.  But their guide is nothing more than an annual recycling of hogwash.

In fact, EWG's 2012 Shopper's Guide is the eighth annual iteration of the group's unfair and dangerous demonization of healthy fruits and vegetables. These reports twist and spin data collected by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that actually shows the opposite of what the EWG greens claim:  pesticide residues are so minute that they pose little to no health risks to US consumers.  

In fact, USDA explains its findings in a May 2012 press statement:  "Similar to previous years, the 2010 report shows that overall pesticide residues found on foods tested are at levels well below the tolerances set by the EPA.