The Food and Drug Administration says it will increase testing for the fungicide carbendazim after an unnamed juice company informed the FDA in December that it had detected low levels of the fungicide in its juice and the juice of its competitors.
An FDA spokeswoman said the agency does not believe the fungicide poses a health risk and that the company’s testing discovered levels up to 35 parts per billion, significantly under the European Union’s maximum level of 200 parts per billion.
The fungicide, which has not been approved for use on oranges in the U.S., but is approved in Brazil, is used to kill and constrain fungi or fungal spores.
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That's why I look at the stickers and packaging for the "Product of USA" verbiage. Mexico still has barefoot workers with backpack sprayers of DDT in the fields I'm told.
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