U.S. FDA Orange-Juice Probe Hasn’t Found More Banned Fungicide
February 23, 2012, 4:21 PM ESTBy Patrick McKiernan
Feb. 23 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said in a weekly update that it hasn’t found any more orange-juice shipments that tested positive for a banned fungicide.
The agency said today that it collected samples from 106 shipments, up from 104 a week earlier. The FDA has detained 24 shipments from countries including Brazil and Canada since it began testing imports and domestic supplies for carbendazim, which has been linked to liver tumors in animals.
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