The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Feb. 16 declined a request from the Brazilian Citrus Exporters Association to temporarily allow a higher tolerance of the banned fungicide carbendazim in juice imports. ...More
Brazil's orange juice industry has removed the pesticide carbendazim from its list of recommended fungicides for crop treatments after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) blocked another 20 shipments of orange juice last week from entering the country because they ...More
Grafting watermelon and other melon plants onto squash or pumpkin rootstocks to make the fruit more resistant to diseases results in larger amounts of certain pesticides in the melon fruit, according to a new study published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food ...More
Food safety has been China’s Achilles heel for the past few years, and new data that reveals 51% of food inspections conducted in Mainland China during 2011 failed only adds to country’s food-safety woes. ...More
On Jan. 4, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) began testing all shipments of incoming orange juice products from all foreign sources for the fungicide carbendazim. As of Jan. 12, 31 samples have been collected; 28 are still pending analysis; three samples revealed ...More
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will begin testing orange juice sold in U.S. supermarkets for the fungicide carbendazim it believes entered U.S. commerce through imports from Brazil. FDA also will sample import shipments of orange juice and will deny entry to ...More
Coca-Cola has issued a statement denying any product quality issue with its Minute Maid Super Pulpy Milky fruit-flavored milk drinks after a 10-year-old boy who consumed the product died and three others were hospitalized in the northeastern Chinese province of Jilin. ...More
Here we go again—it’s round 2 of the arsenic and apple juice debate. A report released today by Consumer Reports revealed 10% of its juice samples, from five brands, had total arsenic levels that exceeded federal drinking-water standards. ...More
Researchers at Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology IME for the first time have developed a system to test whether chemical substances accumulate in cultivated fish that are fed contaminated feed. The discovery is significant since half of all fish ...More
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