Symposium: Caribbean Fruit Fly - '91: Heat and Cold Treatments for Postharvest Quarantine Disinfestation of Fruit Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) and Other Quarantine Pests
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Heat and cold temperature treatments are used to eliminate pests of quarantine significance associated with fruits and vegetables; however, the treatments must not harm the condition or quality of the commodity. Temperature treatments used against fruit fly pests such as Caribbean fruit fly, Anastrepha suspensa (Loew), include exposure to water or air >43@*C and exposure to cold (0-2.22@*C). Temperature treatments used against other pests and plant pathogens are dry heat (>60@*C) and quick freezing (-17@*C or below).Downloads
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