Dr Dillner's health dilemmas: should I wash my fruit and vegetables?

While you might be tempted to bypass the tap and pop that grape into your mouth, fruit and vegetables are not naturally clean. They can be coated by residues from pesticides, and carry bacteria picked up from the soil.

But a recent newspaper report suggested this might be unnecessary. A spokesperson from the Food Standards Agency (FSA) was quoted as saying: "If fruit and vegetables do contain residues, consumers can be confident they are only at levels well below those that might be harmful to health."   Read More