Abstract: A process for the treatment of fruits and vegetables to improve their shelf life and/or to decrease their loss of moisture and the fruits and vegetables treated by such a process and to compositions to be used in the said process wherein fruits and vegetables which are not over-ripe, i.e., to unripe fruits, to fruits which are just ripe or to partially ripened fruits are treated with an aqueous solution or suspension of sucrose esters of fatty acids.

Abstract: An antifungal preparation to be used in and on agricultural products such as fruit, vegetables, tubers, root-tubers, flower bulbs and rootstocks comprising an amount of polyene antibiotic, peferably natamycin, effective to prevent or inhibit mold growth on the agricultural products dissolved in a mixture of a lower alkanol, such as ethyl alcohol, and a lower alkanoic acid, such as acetic acid and agricultural products treated with this preparation and the method of treatment by submerging the agricultural products in the preparation or by pasting or spraying the preparation onto the agricultural products.

Abstract: Antifungal compositions useful for the treatment of ringworm and other fungal infections comprising an antifungally effective amount of natamycin and a non-toxic, pharmaceutically acceptable organic acid compound and a suitable liquid carrier which compositions may be sprayed onto the animal, applied by a sponge or by other topical administration and concentrate comprising natamycin and the non-toxic, pharmaceutically acceptable organic acid compound in dry form.