date:Jan 23, 2014
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For more than four decades, the world pome fruit industry relied on diphenylamine and ethoxyquin to retard the oxidation of a-farnaseno. However, the European Commission has decided to exclude these chemicals from the list of permitted products. Hence, in the future, producers will no longer be able to use them in fruit destined to Europe.
The current maximum residue limit (MRL) for diphenylamine is of 5 mg/kg in apples and 10 mg/kg in pears. These MRLs will decrease, starting February 2