Claim · #6492918
Lepidoptera (order) · 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 of insects in the flesh”
- Authors
- Dent D.
- Year
- 2000
- Publication
- CABI Publishing
- Page
- 51
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Lepidopteran larvae (e.g., Helicoverpa, Keiferia) infesting tomato fruit flesh is well-documented; a 2% rejection threshold for California processing tomatoes aligns with known USDA/industry quality standards.”
- entomologist · plausible
“A 2% by-weight rejection threshold for larval/excreta contamination in processing tomatoes is consistent with known USDA/California industry defect tolerance standards for Lepidoptera larvae (e.g., tomato fruitworm).”
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