COCA-COLA FOUND FUNGICIDE IN ORANGE JUICES

Coca-cola in New York had found a fungicide in one of the orange juices produces in United States. They Have conducted their own test with their own orange juice products and from their competitor's orange juices and found out a low level of fungicide.

For those who don't know yet. According from the wikipedia, Fungicides are chemical compounds or biological organisms used to kill or inhibit fungi or fungal spores.Fungi can cause serious damage in agriculture, resulting in critical losses of yield, quality and profit. Fungicides are used both in agriculture and to fight fungal infections in animals. Chemicals used to control oomycetes, which are not fungi, are also referred to as fungicides as oomycetes use the same mechanisms as fungi to infect plants.


Image by Getty Images via @daylifeFungicides can either be contact, translaminar or systemic. Contact fungicides are not taken up into the plant tissue, & only protect the plant where the spray is deposited; translaminar fungicides redistribute the fungicide from the upper, sprayed leaf surface to the lower, unsprayed surface; systemic fungicides are taken up & redistributed through the xylem vessels to the upper parts of the plant. New leaf growth is protected for a short period.

Food and Drug Administration said that fungicide of the orange juices in United States were from the imported oranges from Brazil. Brazil is the biggest producer of oranges in the world. Fungicide were prohibited in the US but not in Brazil.

As of now, Coca-cola is still working on the issue with the FDA.