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A Sobering Christmas Reality: Cocktail of Hazardous Pesticides in Wine has Tripled

www.thecanary.co A sobering Christmas reality: cocktail of hazardous pesticides in wine has tripled

As shops like Aldi sell a bottle of wine for £3.49, PAN UK reveals that the toxic mix of pesticides in UK drinks has shot up post-Brexit

A sobering Christmas reality: cocktail of hazardous pesticides in wine has tripled

A French nationwide study published in the Environmental Research journal suggested that agricultural practices and pesticides used in vineyards could have been linked to the occurrence of Parkinson’s disease.

According to PAN UK’s findings, there seems to be a rising trend in the occurrence of pesticide combinations in food. The total percentage of fruit and vegetables with residues from multiple pesticides has consistently stayed below 48%, but this year it unexpectedly spiked to an astonishing 53%.

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