ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Vinclozolin

Okay kiddo, so have you heard of plants being sprayed with a special kind of water that helps keep the bugs away? That's kind of what vinclozolin is, but for fruits and vegetables.

So, when farmers want to grow fruits and veggies without the bugs eating them all up, they use something called a pesticide. Vinclozolin is one kind of pesticide that helps protect crops from a certain type of fungus that can make them rot.

But, just like how too much medicine can make you sick, too much vinclozolin can actually be bad for the environment. It can stick around in the soil or water for a long time and harm the animals and plants that live there.

So, while it's important to keep our food safe from pests, we need to be careful about how much and when we use pesticides like vinclozolin.