Interesting study

[OakLeaf]

Meanwhile, stories like this one never make the national news, and often don't even make the local news. The far more common incidences where the poisoning is cumulative and chronic, rather than an acute overexposure, get reported only in the rare event of a lawsuit.

Never mind that the referenced study - which I can't find online - appears to have examined only vitamins and minerals, not other components of food.

Edit: abstract online (full text is by subscription) - this is a meta-analysis examining other studies' findings concerning nitrogen, phosphorus, acidity, and eight other nutrients not identified in the abstract.

Parsons has a very good point, though (expanded on in much more detail by Michael Pollan in the opening chapter(s) of The Omnivore's Dilemma).

I've said it here before - as far as I'm concerned, consumers' personal health is the very last reason to choose organic. It may be a nice side benefit - I tend to believe that it usually is - but that's all.