Orange juice with fungicide? The FDA is stepping up testing of orange juice after a juice company alerted the agency to low levels of the fungicide carbendazim in orange juice brands.
Orange juice contamination?
The Food and Drug Administration says it will step up testing for a fungicide that has been found in low levels in orange juice.
In a letter to the juice industry Monday, the agency said that an unnamed juice company contacted FDA in late December and said it had detected low levels of the fungicide carbendazim in the company's own orange juice and also in its competitors' juice.
Fungicides are used to control fungi or fungal spores in agriculture.
Orange juice futures fell 9.5 percent, Wednesday, as investors sold contracts while they wait for more details about government testing for the fungicide.
Poster Comment:
You'd think juice oranges needn't be sprayed if they were promptly juiced.