PINEAPPLES: DELICIOUS BUT SOCIALLY AND ECOLOGICALLY EXPENSIVE

Worker applying pesticides in pineapple (Ananas comosus) field in Panama. Source: OIRSA (2000).

Unless you grow them ecologically, which means no use of man-made chemicals and living in the tropics, pineapples (Ananas comosus) sold in our supermarkets always contain residues of dangerous agrochemicals such as glyphosate, and multiple organophosphate and organochlorine compounds such as aldrin, parathion, DDT, endosulfan, heptachlor, disulfoton, dimethoate (Gutiérrez et al., 2010), amongst others.

References

OIRSA (Organismo Internacional Regional de Sanidad Agropecuaria) (2000). Manual Técnico: Uso y Manejo Seguro de Plaguicidas en el Cultivo de Piña. Panamá. 33 pp. 

[Extract from Costa Rica: The Dark Side of Pineapples by Gundhramns Hammer (2015)]

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