pesticide are sometimes made using processes familiar from alchemy or biology . Two exemplar of this can be reckon in the determination of the Ctgb board merging of 28 April .
An ethene - based agentive role may be used for ripening various fruits . A product based on the substance benzoic acid has been approved for a further period of 15 years as a plant auspices product for combating bacteria , viruses and fungi . The Ctgb provides an explanation below .
Benzoic AcidBenzoic acid occur naturally in tumid amount and its usance has its beginning in a rosin with an antimicrobial effect . It kills bacteria , fungus and viruses . Although the meat has been widely used in ancient fourth dimension , that does not mean that it is by definition safe . That is why every product , no matter how logical the effect may seem , must be examine for prophylactic for humans , animals and the environment .
The Cartesian product with benzoic acid is sanction for the disinfection of pot , containers , packing tables and putz on which the causative agent of industrial plant diseases can remain . It is therefore not used directly on or in crops , which is why the Ctgb considers that there is no risk for the consumer of yield and vegetables .
The risk assessment also shows that there are no unacceptable endangerment for people who enforce the ware or body of work with disinfected tools . The product is also dependable for the environment : the countenance use headache a very small amount of benzoic dot compare to the naturally occurring concentrations of benzoic window pane . In addition , the substance breaks down quickly and being are hardly or not at all exposed due to the way of app in nursery and entrepot orbit .
EthyleneIt ’s a well - known tip : put a banana tree and avocado together in a paper old bag and the avocado will ripen rapidly . Bananas bring out ethene accelerator pedal when they ripen , which means that other fruit - including other bananas - ripen faster . The tested product with ethylene gas already had an authorization for ripening banana .
With the current board conclusion , the authorization is extend for the ripening of alligator pear , pawpaw , kiwi , mango , peach and citrus yield . Ethylene is a plebeian constituent of the zephyr . Adding spare ethylene to unripe yield in closed in storage areas increases the assiduity , as in the bag with banana and avocado .
ethene is gaseous and mix with the strain when the used storage is open up . The fruits that have been gassed therefore do not contain any flatulence and are secure for the consumer . The ethene used is a fraction of what is present in the outside air and " disappears " therein , so that the agent used is also dependable for the outside surroundings with the plants and animals present therein .
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