Claim · #6492396
Lepidoptera spp. · pest pressure · Solanum lycopersicum
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“processing tomatoes are rejected if 2% or more of the tomatoes by weight have a larva or excreta”
- Authors
- Dent D.
- Year
- 2000
- Publication
- CABI Publishing
- Page
- 51
AI critic verdicts
- entomologist · plausible
“The 2% rejection threshold is a documented USDA/industry processing tomato quality standard; larval/excreta contamination of fruit by Lepidoptera larvae (e.g., Helicoverpa, Keiferia) is well-established in California processing tomato IPM literature.”
- agroecologist · plausible
“USDA/cannery rejection thresholds for lepidopteran larvae in processing tomatoes are well-documented; 2% by weight tolerance and high load-rejection rates are consistent with California processing-tomato IPM literature.”
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