Report on Methoxychlor Residues on Fruits and Vegetables

Pesticide Residues in Fruits and Vegetables

Detecting and quantifying pesticide residues in fruits and vegetables is a crucial public health function for analytical laboratories throughout the world. Professor Amadeo Fernàndez-Alba, a full professor in Analytical Chemistry at the University of Almeria, Spain, has headed the European Reference Laboratory for Pesticide Residues in Fruits and Vegetables (EURL-FV) since 2006. Professor Fernà...

Pesticide Residues in Fruits and Vegetables

The aim of this chapter is to describe the presence of pesticide residues in fruits and vegetables, mainly how they are introduced, dissipated, degraded, affected by food processing techniques and their risk assessment. Fruits and vegetables are important components of the human diet since they provide essential nutrients that are required for most of the reactions occurring in the body. A high...

Effect of heterocyclic amines, vegetables, and fruits on colorectal cancer

Isolation of parasites on fruits and vegetables.

The current FDA method to recover parasites from fruits and vegetables is derived from procedures used to isolate parasitic protozoa from water. A 1kg portion of fruit or vegetable is divided into 200 g subportions. The subportions are sequentially processed in a sonic cleaning bath with 1.5 liters of detergent solution (1% sodium dodecyl sulfate, 0.1% Tween 80) and sonicated for 10 minutes. As...

Pesticide residues on fruits and vegetables from Ontario, Canada, 1991-1995.

For the 5-year period 1991 to 1995, 1536 vegetable and 802 fruit samples were analyzed. The purpose of this study was to determine if pesticides were present on Ontario-produced fruits and vegetables, and if so, to determine if residues violated maximum residue limits (MRLs). Overall, 31.5% of the samples had no detectable pesticide residues, whereas 68.5% contained one or more residues. Most o...