Fruit Drinks Tained with Pesticides

For all you Brits out there, quit hittin’ the bottle—the juice bottle that is. According to a new study, fruit-juice drinks sold in England contain more pesticides than anywhere else in the world. The University of Jaen in Spain studied more than 100 consumer beverages from 15 countries and found those in the UK had the highest concentrations, averaging more than 34 times the amount permitted in drinking water, with some up to 300 times. In Britain, there are no maximum recommended limits for pesticide residues in juice. “Children should not be exposed to these chemicals,“ says Georgina Downs of the UK Pesticides Campaign. “This research should act as a serious alarm bell to the soft drinks industry.“