(CNN
Money)
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says it has
halted shipments of imported orange juice from all over the world and will test
each one for traces of fungicide.
The decision to test orange juice and orange juice
concentrate shipments, which was announced Tuesday, came after an unnamed juice
company alerted the FDA last month that it found low levels of the fungicide,
carbendazim, in products imported from Brazil.
The FDA said it will examine all container
shipments of orange juice that arrive at U.S. ports.
The agency will sample contents from multiple parts of each shipment; the
subsequent testing could take between five and ten business days.
Shipments that test negative for “detectable
levels” of carbendazim will be allowed to enter the country. Read more here.
