ABC News admitted yesterday that a “20/20” report by John Stossel criticizing organic produce contained inaccurate information and said the reporter would apologize on the air this Friday for his error. The report, first aired in February and then rerun in July over the objection of enviros and organic advocates, claimed that tests conducted for the network indicated that non-organic produce did not necessarily have more pesticide residues than organic produce. The Environmental Working Group asserted that such tests were never conducted, and ABC News acknowledged yesterday that indeed they weren’t. EWG is calling for Stossel to be fired.
