Take the 2-minute tour ×  If I buy some vegetables and take them
home, is there any way to determine if the vegetables contain
dangerous levels of pesticides?  share|improve this question
closed as off topic by mfg, Jefromi, TFD, derobert, Aaronut Mar
18 '12 at 15:46   What makes you think that there is any
positive relationship between "organic farming methods" and
fewer/less dangerous pesticides? In many if not most cases, the
organics are worse. –  Aaronut Mar 16 '12 at 3:38 Maybe a handy-
dandy Home HPLC system? e.g. iconsci.com/worldssmallesthplc.html
–  Ward Mar 16 '12 at 6:46 @Aaronut: The article to which you
link does say that more organic pesticides are required than
synthetic and the organic ones wreak more havoc on the
ecosystem. However, the article doesn't make a claim about which
is more harmful to the humans that eat the produce, and that's
with what I think this question is concerned. –  ESultanik Mar
16 '12 at 14:27 @ESultanik: That's just one study among many.
Even if we were all to just as