Department of Agriculture experts: "Banana soaked in unknown liquid" what is going on?

BEIJING, May 15 (Xinhua) -- Recently, in Weibo, WeChat group, friends circled a "banana soaked in unknown liquid" video circulation, consumers have worried that unknown liquid is toxic, and even some netizens said formaldehyde. So what's going on with the banana soaking in the video? What exactly is an "unknown liquid"?
, Xinhua News Agency, China Food Disinformation Alliance interviewed Wang Ming-moon, a researcher at the Institute of Agricultural Processing and Analysis and Testing of the Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences. Wang Ming-moon said the bananas were picked and breathed vigorously and perishable. After cutting the banana, fresh sales around the origin of the direct storage, the need for long-distance transport is immediately to do preservation treatment. The milky white liquid in the video is a preservation agent that consumers don't have to worry about.Said that bananas are produced in the tropical subtropical region, is the market year-on-year supply of fresh fruit, a large number of bananas every year "northward" to the people's table. Banana is a "breathing leap type" fruit, after picking breathing exuberant, and to a certain maturity will appear "breathing outbreak", rapid aging soft, resistance decline, easy to be hit or infected by fungi, black rotting, slightly careless "northward" banana on the whole car "whole army cover", so banana mining preservation is a key link.the bananas in the video are all green? Wang Ming-moon said bananas should be picked when they are ripe on July 8. Bananas are usually placed in ice water or cold water to cool down and wash away banana oil, and then placed in a pool containing preservation agent soaked for several minutes for sterilization preservation treatment, drying with plastic bags packaging, vacuuming, boxing, and then immediately loaded and transported to cold storage.
Wang Mingyue said that the video scene is the use of preservation agent for banana preservation treatment, milky white liquid is preservation agent, the main use of banana preservation agent for Mimi freshamine, methyl thiobacteria, isobacterium, these are internationally recognized low-toxic fungicides, degradation speed is fast, and are registered by the competent authorities to allow the use of banana preservation, are also developed the corresponding recommended use and residue limit standards.
Wang Mingyue said that in recent years, the banana storage preservation link monitoring data show that some banana products in varying degrees of detection of fresh agent residues such as amine, isomer, methyl thiobacteria, but the residue is within the limits of the national limit, in line with national standards, consumers do not have to worry, can be assured to eat.