Plasma activated water vs pesticides for mold on strawberries

Filed by Elara Myst

A Dutch startup fights mould on strawberries with homemade lightning instead of pesticides. Its machine sparks plasma into water to make molecules that kill fungi, then break down into water, oxygen and nitrate. Six run on UK farms. EU approval is not expected before 2029.As reported in de Volkskrant, one of the Netherlands leading newspapers:"In a steel cabinet in the large hall of VitalFluid, behind a window, a blue light, like a machine from a science fiction film that was not allowed t