Please read what was reported :
Outrage has raged in Vietnam over the use of legal chemicals to artificially ripen fruits, after a Vietnamese facility in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong was caught ripening numerous immature green durians .
On September 1 2016, an inspection team raided a fruit facility in Di Linh District, Vietnam as employees were busy dousing some 700kg worth of green durians into a barrel containing a yellow liquid.
The facility owner confessed to officials that the yellow liquid was a mixture of 40 liters of raw water, 500ml of a foliar fertilizer labeled HPC-97HXN and a little turmeric powder.
The immature fruits would subsequently become ripe two to three days after being soaked in the mix.
Inspectors seized 2.05 metric tons of chemical-doused durians at the facility, plus 13 bottles of fungicide and four bottles of HPC-97HXN.
There were also multiple containers of other chemicals and 89kg of packaging and labels in Chinese characters.
The facility opened in July and had frequently sourced unripe durians before artificially ripening them with the chemicals and offering them for sale.
After being doused with the poisonous chemical mix, the artificially ripened durians would be put into cardboard boxes, labeled with Chinese characters and loaded onto trucks for export.
The fruits would be sold mainly in Malaysia.
The raid on the Lam Dong facility has given rise to concern among local consumers, who now have to think twice before buying durians.
The case has also ignited debate over the safety of the HPC-97HXN chemical, the main ingredient of the ‘magic liquid’ used to ripen the fruits.\
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