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The Food Safety Department officials here have advised people in Salem to buy mangoes that are ripened naturally using simple methods.
The District Designated Officer for Food Safety Department, R. Kathiravan, said the sellers were allowed to use ethylene fruit ripener. One packet of ethylene should be used to ripen 10 kg of mangoes and it should not come into direct contact with the fruits. The gas released from the packet would ripen the mangoes in 48 to 72 hours. A meeting was held last month with the mango traders in this regard.
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