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Study Asks if Tainted Chinese Herbs Are Harming, Not Healing

Chinese herbal medicine, an ancient tradition that is supposed to heal, may be doing the opposite: is it also harming people’s health and polluting the environment with pesticides, as a Greenpeace study released Monday suggests. The study tested 65 popular Chinese herbs from nine pharmacies in nine Chinese cities and found 48 tested positive for pesticide residues. 

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Topics: 
Health, Society
Keywords: 
pesticides