Summer is the peak season for the sales and consumption of all kinds of vegetables, melons and fruits. Due to the problems of pesticide residues, cleaning has become an essential step before eating. Ordinary families will use clean water and detergent to clean fruits and vegetables, but some people turn their attention to fruit and vegetable cleaning machines with high-tech such as ozone sterilization.
Ozone can destroy the chemical bonds of organic pesticides
Fruit and vegetable cleaning machines have many names, such as fruit and vegetable disinfection machine, fruit and vegetable purification machine, fruit and vegetable detoxification machine and so on. According to the publicity, the fruit and vegetable washing machine can not only "effectively remove the pesticide residues in the deep layer of vegetables and fruits", but also "effectively remove the growth promoting hormone and hookworm virus in meat" and "effectively remove the antibiotic drug residues in seafood and aquatic products".
An expert from the Institute of environment and health related product safety of China Center for Disease Control and prevention explained that the principle of fruit and vegetable cleaning machine is generally that the ozone emitted by the machine is a strong oxidant, while the pesticide is an organic compound. Ozone disinfection water destroys the chemical bonds of organic pesticides through strong oxidation, makes them lose their drug properties, and kills all kinds of bacteria and viruses on the surface at the same time, Achieve the purpose of cleaning.
