Flutterby™! : Another reason to go organic

Rebecca Blood had to an article asking if organic fruit and veggies were worth the cost, which mentioned a study that found that:

Children eating non-organic foods were switched for five days to an organic diet and pesticide levels were measured in their urine before and after the change. The study -- published this past fall -- found that some pesticides disappeared from the children's urine after going organic.

The study is Organophosphorus Pesticide Exposure of Urban and Suburban Preschool Children with Organic and Conventional Diets, and sure enough that's exactly what it says. I'd always thought that organic was good because there was less issue with the secondary effects, overspray, pesticides in the water supplies, that sort of thing, but while there's no evidence that the pesticides and associated compounds that are making it through to the urine are having an impact on the humans, the fact that detectable levels are making it that far through the food chain suggests that it may not just be secondary exposures that we should be concerned about.

Very interesting.