date:May 05, 2014
ar shipments to Europe dropping 27 percent from the previous year to 69,000 boxes. But Correa explained that minimum residue regulations regarding diphenylamine, a widely-used chemical in the U.S., could effectively end their pear shipments to Europe.
Regulations regarding DPA, a chemical that's used on apples and pears to prevent scald, have been set at a level that makes us think we can't send any fruit to Europe, said Correa. The fruit would reach those levels just from the residue contained