![]() The empire consumer group’s findings are consistent with testing of nine boxed apple juices last year by the st. The company is still working on non-china sources for wegmans-brand canned mandarin oranges and mushrooms. labels are being changed now to reflect the current sources of apple concentrate, argentina and chile. Natale said the decision to change to new sources was made before the consumer group did its testing. ![]() “it’s not because that we ourselves have experienced a problem. one such country is china,” jo natale said. “we recognize that for consumers and for us, some countries pose more of a concern than others in terms of their food safety system. said thursday the company has phased out use of chinese concentrate in its house brand of apple sauce and apple juice. arsenic-based pesticides, no longer applied to apples in this country, are still used in chinese orchards, she said, and the toxic metal can find its way into apple products.Ĭoincidentally, a spokeswoman for wegmans food markets inc. Judy braiman, head of the consumer project, said mott’s, like some other juice makers, uses apple concentrate from china in its products. No arsenic was detected in any of the samples except for mott’s juice - but it contained more than five times the level of arsenic allowed in drinking water. The rochester-based empire state consumer project arranged for laboratory analysis of five brands each of apple juice and apple sauce, including wegmans brands. Testing by a local consumer group has found elevated levels of arsenic in mott’s apple juice, renewing calls by a food safety group for tighter standards on imported foods.
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