Roast Aubergine and Chickpea salad with Tahini dressing 
Corn, egg, gluten, lactose, milk, nut, peanut & wheat free
As it is Veganuary (Going vegan for the month of January) we thought we'd add a vegan recipe that is tasty and healthy and very easy to make. Click here for the full recipe.
Thanks go to Foods Matter for kindly letting us reproduce this recipe.
Pesticide of Cocktails in a quarter of UK foods
The Sol Association and PAN UK are exposing how mixtures of pesticides commonly found in UK food, water and soil may be harming the health of both humans and wildlife.Their new report, The Cocktail Effect, shows around a quarter of all food, and over a third of fruit and vegetables, consumed in the UK contain pesticide cocktails, with some items containing traces of up to 14 different pesticides.
UK citizens and the natural environment are being exposed to potentially harmful mixtures of pesticides. These mixtures appear in our food, water and soil and can affect the health of both humans and wildlife. There is a growing body of evidence that pesticides can become more harmful when combined, a phenomenon known as the ‘cocktail effect’. Despite this, the regulatory system designed to protect us from pesticides only looks at individual chemicals and safety assessments are carried out for one pesticide at a time. For the first time, this report examines to what extent the cocktail effect is a problem in the UK and the potential impact upon human health and the environment. It describes the failures of our regulatory system to protect us from the cocktail effect and makes recommendations for what needs to change.
Over a third of all the fruit and vegetables tested by the UK government in 2017 and 2018 contained residues of more than one pesticide. In 2017, 87.5% of the pears tested contained pesticide cocktails, with 4% containing residues of nine or more different chemicals. One sample of raspberries was found to contain one ‘known carcinogen’, one ‘probable carcinogen’ and two ‘possible carcinogens’, two endocrine disruptors (EDCs) which interfere with hormone systems and can cause cancerous tumours and birth defects, one developmental toxin which can have adverse effects on sexual function and fertility and one neurotoxin which can negatively affect the nervous system and nerve tissue. Multiple residues were found in more than three quarters of grapes tested in 2018, with one sample containing traces of fourteen different pesticides. Pesticide cocktails are not only found in fruit and vegetables. In both 2017 and 2018, roughly a quarter of all food items tested by the government (which include animal products and grains) contained pesticides cocktails. In 2017, this included more than half of rice and a quarter of bread.
This is published on the Soil Association website www.soilassociation.org.To read the full report click here.
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