Is there any governing body controlling what goes into fruit and vegetable washes, such, as the Food and Drug Administration or FDA?
At this time the Environmental Protection Agencys (EPA) Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) has a section on washing produce for the purposes of commercial food processing, but does not have any regulations on vegetable washes for removing residues, or what goes into making them. They do regulate pesticides and bacteriacides. Anything claiming to kill bacteria or germs would be classified as a pesticide or bacteriacide. When I was in the early formulation stages for Mom’s Veggiewash I had studied the EPA CFRs. I found that we were not in a controlled category. In other words there were no regulations for fruit and vegetable washes of this type as long as we didn’t claim to be a bacteriacide. Under food processing there was a regulation for the use of caustic soda or lye when stripping potato peels and “cleaning” other vegetables for commercial food processing. The section also explains the use of chlorinated rinses for the purposes of washing commercially processed foods and puts limits
