Fruit ripening chemicals

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Fruit ripening chemicals
« on: April 22, 2017, 11:27:15 PM »
Over a dozen harmful ripening agents have flooded the market amid lax government monitoring, and unscrupulous traders and growers are using them on fruits at will, posing a threat to public health.
Many well-known pesticide companies and chemical factories are importing ripening agents and marketing these under different names like Sundori, Tomtom, Harvest, Riser, Promote, Ripe, Ripen, Eden, Prolong, Ethrel, Remote, Garden, Action and Gold Plus.
None of these is legal. In fact, the government has never approved any ripening agent. It only has approved two plant growth regulators (PGRs), hormones that are applied to make fruits grow bigger and look more attractive, said officials in the Department of Agricultural Extension's (DAE) regulatory wing.
The importers of ripening agents dupe the government by saying they are only importing the PGRs.  They get away with this, as the government has no mechanism in place to monitor what is being imported and marketed, said industry insiders.