Comments on: Things worth reading today http://www.coldtruth.com/2009/07/08/things-worth-reading-today/ Mon, 19 Jul 2010 03:01:30 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Rob C. http://www.coldtruth.com/2009/07/08/things-worth-reading-today/comment-page-1/#comment-141 Rob C. Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:20:30 +0000 http://www.coldtruth.com/?p=163632#comment-141 This is good news if they can reduce the burden of agrichemical residues in certain kinds of produce. As an example, a couple of days ago I ate half a cantaloupe that gave me a slight headache and made my tongue feel "hot" for hours. Whatever substances cause this, they are the same sensations that also sometimes happen after eating too many slices of watermelon or too many peaches or nectarines. This is absent in the organic versions of the same fruit. It happens often enough when I eat two or three bananas that I'm getting more careful about buying organic bananas. So if I can notice this occasionally with my unadorned senses when I eat too much of some types of fruit (imported or not), without the need of any scientific instrumentation at all, why can't the FDA officially notice it? Somehow I can't believe that a level of residues that can cause these observable effects is benign enough for the FDA to approve. This is good news if they can reduce the burden of agrichemical residues in certain kinds of produce. As an example, a couple of days ago I ate half a cantaloupe that gave me a slight headache and made my tongue feel “hot” for hours. Whatever substances cause this, they are the same sensations that also sometimes happen after eating too many slices of watermelon or too many peaches or nectarines. This is absent in the organic versions of the same fruit. It happens often enough when I eat two or three bananas that I’m getting more careful about buying organic bananas.

So if I can notice this occasionally with my unadorned senses when I eat too much of some types of fruit (imported or not), without the need of any scientific instrumentation at all, why can’t the FDA officially notice it? Somehow I can’t believe that a level of residues that can cause these observable effects is benign enough for the FDA to approve.

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