Posted by Meri-Tuuli on April 4, 2006, at 6:02:17
In reply to Re: medicinal herbs and spices + pesticides ?, posted by linkadge on April 3, 2006, at 9:42:29
Hey there, well the cocoa we have in our cupboard is organic and is by 'Green and Blacks'
They say on their website that they don't use pesticides on their cocoa plants:
http://www.greenandblacks.com/story.php
I don't know whether its available in Canada.
Kind regards
Meri
> Well, I ditched my high dose cocoa consumption based on some reasearch that suggested raw imported cocoa often contains a high level of certain pesticide.
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> Now if I was only consuming a little, I wouldn't be as concerned but 80g's is a quite a bit.
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> There is movement to try and ban the pesticide used, but things are slow.
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> Linkadge
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