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Table 8 Residues and DRI risk levels in organic and conventional apples grown in the US in 2009

From: The dietary risk index system: a tool to track pesticide dietary risks

 

Total Samples

Total Number of Residues Found

Percent of Samples with Zero Residues

Average Number of Residues per Sample

DRI-M

FS-DRI

Conventional

571

3522

1.05%

6.16

11.8

0.223

Organic

22

34

31.3%

1.52

0.00328

0.000874

Ratio of Conventional to Organic

26.0

104

0.0340

4.06

3584

255

  1. 1. Results from 571 conventional and 22 organic samples