Pesticides in fruits and vegetables: “eternal pollutants” ever more present in Europe. The most affected are summer fruits, such as strawberries, peaches or apricots, underlines a report published Tuesday.
In France alone, 12.2% of fruits and 8% of vegetables studied contained traces of at least one PFAS over the period from 2011 to 2021. The fruits most contaminated with PFAS in France in 2021 are table grapes (48%) and Apricots (39%)