What types of pesticides are put on bananas?

Answer 1

Bitertanol, Chlotpyrifos, Thiabendazole, Imazil...

Are the one's we found here on imported bananas

Pesticides been found on 100% of UK gov samplers

http://www.pesticides.gov.UK/prc.asp?id=698

The last two ones: Thiabendazole, Imazil are fungicides into the bananas take a bath before to be packing for export.

In average they put 26 to 30 kilos of pesticides by hectare and spray them by plane every week (Costa Rica) one week on two (in Ecuador). In Ecuador the workers cannot quit their work station during the aerian spray.

For more info on Bananas in the world, workers conditions, environmental impacts:

www.ibc2.org (international banana conference 2005)

My website will be available in English in few weeks: www.equicosta.com (Canadian importer of Fraitrade Organic bananas) Continu to ask questions more we know more we act!!

Answer 2

There are actually a few different preservatives in bananas. These preservatives include thiabendazole, mazalil, myclobutanil, and azoxystrobin. You will need to look for bananas that are marked as organic to not have preservatives in them.

Answer 3

Cyfluthrin, cypermethrin, dialdrin, methamedophos, methylparathian, and monocrotophos are examples of pesticides whose residue may be found on mangoes.

Specifically, the above-mentioned pesticides can be applied to control insect pests. Their application controls fruit flies, mango hoppers, mealybugs, termites, thrips and tip borers. They represent non-organic controls of mango pests whereas HOC-4n1 is an organic spray which also functions as a foliar fertilizer, fungicide, insecticide and repellent.