Sunday, January 29, 2012
food Fungicide-Tainted Orange Juice Seized
Posted by George Prentice on Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 3:45 PM
The rule is clear: fungicides are not approved by the Food and Drug Administration, particularly to prevent fungus damage for oranges.
Yet according to the FDA, this month alone, 14 percent of the orange juice imported into the United States has been detained for having trace amounts of fungicides, specifically carbendazim, which is used in other countries. The seized shipments originated from Canada, Mexico, Costa Rica, Brazil, Belize, Honduras, Lebanon and Turkey. Coca-Cola, which distributes orange juice under the Minute Maid and Simply Orange brands, said it found the fungicide in its juice and rival juices, and reported the findings to the FDA.
The United States imported $438 million worth of orange juice in 2010.
The FDA said it was currently testing domestically grown orange juice for any traces of fungicides and those results are expected to be made public this coming week.
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Imported from Canada??? There are no orange groves in Canada and no citrus industry. Very strange.
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When they say Canada, they're actually saying China, but don't want to embarass our neighbors. Same goes for Honey.
Gotta love that there FDA...it seems highly unlikely that these fungicides were just added to our OJ. How many years have we been slurping down poison that they should have been aware of?
Let's all vote for Ron Paul so we can deregulate everything and get this experiment called humanity over with!
Farmers and their pesticides these days, we need to go all organic...
all i can say is read the label. and even then u are still not getting 100% truth. but buy produce and really anything you can, that was grown, made, processed in the USA. We have stricter guidelines for things like this.
Why on earth are we importing oranges and citrus products from other countries? don't we have massive citrus industries in FL and California? Oh wait, that's right. They had to get rid of the farms to make way for urban sprawl...
wow and here i thought that we could take a drink of some oj with out the fear of dieing or getting sick...why andthe hell would we import oj.....florda and calli have the wwether to grow the ohh my bad the urban spraw tooke over wellp good bye none poisend oj hello canada.
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