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| New York Apple Association |
Apples, strawberries, grapes, and celery top the Environmental Working Group's 2014 list of the fruits and vegetables that contain the highest amounts of pesticides. In fact, 80 percent of the apples tested contained a chemical that was banned in the EU in 2012, diphenylamine. On the other end of the spectrum, avocados, sweet corn, pineapple, and cabbage took the top spots on the "clean" list:
https://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/the-dirty-dozen-environmental-working-group-ewg-clean-fifteen-221309584.html
Our apples are not welcome in Europe because the EPA's allowed level of diphenylamine is 100 times greater than that set by the European Food Safety Authority (video):
http://www.slate.com/articles/video/video/2014/04/u_s_apples_banned_in_europe_does_diphenylamine_or_dpa_make_american_apples.html
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