When you grow, process or sell produce, products are available that can eliminate a wide range of the bacteria and pests that can make the foods unsafe to eat. Until recently the general public took very little interest in how this was accomplished. With so many food recalls in the news and a boom in the organic food market, the public is becoming much more interested in how their foods are treated while they are being grown and processed before they end up in the refrigerator. For many years the pesticides and herbicides used to protect these food crops during their growth have been made from chemicals that seem to become more complex every year.

Unfortunately many of these chemicals have been found to cause a variety of problems of their own such as cancers, birth defects and hundreds other illnesses. If you want to grow healthy produce, products like these are not an acceptable option to help your crops grow as they end up becoming trapped inside your produce and from there into the bloodstream of those who eat them. There is a major movement among members of the public to change to the way farmers and produce handlers protect the foods we eat. The public want to them to protect their produce with products that have been scientifically proven to protect our food supply without causing us any harm.

Recent studies have shown that the average apple grown in the standard manner can have up to 67 different chemicals still present on the inside even after the outside has been thoroughly washed, who would want to eat an apple like this? In order to safely protect the produce, products have been developed that are fully organic compatible. These products must meet with the appropriate organic certifications set by the FDA and met OMRI and NOP standards. These standards are becoming tougher to meet every year as the public becomes more aware of what they are eating. In order to ensure that the food supply stays safe from the moment the seeds are planted until they grow into finished produce, products that meet these standards must be used and nothing else. If the grower or the processor uses anything else the food can no longer be certified as organic, which not only makes it less attractive to the customers but seriously affects it retail value.

This includes the cleaning solutions that are used to clean the cleaning, sorting and packing equipment as it is possible for them to contaminate the produce. Whether you are a grower or a processing company looking for organic produce products to protect your merchandise, you can turn to AgSolutions Inc. for your needs. While this company got its start selling mushroom growing equipment to farmers, they formed a partnership with BioSafe systems they have become one of the preeminent research and development companies in the field of food safety. They offer a wide range of solutions for protecting produce while it is growing, being transported and processed for sale to the public.