🚨 DRISCOLL’S WHISTLEBLOWER SPEAKS OUT ABOUT PESTICIDE OVERUSE ON BERRIES
David Harada was Driscoll’s Manager of Food Safety and Regulatory Compliance. His job was to make sure the berries families were buying met pesticide safety standards.
Now he is blowing the whistle.
Harada says he began finding problems with pesticide over-application on Driscoll’s growers’ crops and repeatedly brought his concerns to management.
But according to his lawsuit, instead of asking how they could fix the problem, a director asked whether the company had “plausible deniability.”
Harada also said that Driscoll’s removed pesticide compliance safeguards from its internal system — safeguards designed to make sure enough time passed between pesticide application and harvest so residues could break down.
He says he continued raising concerns and ultimately faced retaliation.
This is why Moms Across America continues to insist that food safety cannot be left to corporations to police themselves.
Berries are some of the most frequently consumed foods by our children. Our children are eating berries drenched in pesticides that are over the already too high safety limits set by our EPA.