Chemicals found in organic products

The EU's food safety agency, the EFSA found pesticide concentrations higher than the permissible limits in 1.24 percent of vegetables and fruits derives from organic farming.

The Parma-based organization has published the testing results of samples, taken in the EU Member States in 2007. Overall, the results have improved, since the 5 percent results of  the year before.  354 various kinds of chemical traces have been shown in the different products. However, only four percent of the samples were beyond the limit (maximum residue levels, MRLs).
The EFSA stresses that the exceed of MRL does not automatically means health risk, because  the limits are, much below the toxic levels in most cases – reports Világgazdaság Online.