Valentine Roses Hit With Toxic Chemicals

February 12th, 2007 Valentine Roses Hit With Toxic Chemicals (AP)

A worker cut roses at the Inversiones Morcote flower farm in Bogota, Monday, Jan. 22, 2007. Inversiones Morcote is certified by Germany-based FLO-Cert GmbH for pursuing socially and environmentally sustainable agricultural practices. Some US consumer advocates complain that Colombia\'s cut-flower industry, the second largest in the world, is ignoring market trends and relying too heavily on the use of pesticides. (AP Photo/ Fernando Vergara)

(AP) -- It's probably the last thing most people think about when buying roses - by the time the bright, velvety flowers reach your Valentine, they will have been sprayed, rinsed and dipped in a battery of potentially lethal chemicals.



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