Mugachia, J C; Kanja, L; Gitau, F

Article history: Received 26 January 2014 Received in revised form 10 March 2014 Accepted 12 March 2014 Available online 5 April 2014

Fish farming is increasingly dependent on plant commodities as a source of feed leading to an increased risk for pesticide residues in aquaculture diets and consequently their transfer into aquaculture food products. The European pesticide regulation requires fish metabolism and fish feeding studies where residues in fish feed exceed 0.1 mg kg(-1) of the total diet (dry weight basis) to enable ...

was elaborated in cooperation with the Member States. It does not intend to produce legally binding effects and by its nature does not prejudice any measure taken by a Member State within the implementation prerogatives under Regulation 1107/2009 or Regulation 396/2005, nor any case law developed with regard to these provisions. This document also does not preclude the possibility that the Euro...

Pesticide residue is a common contamination in the environment and food. Various analytical methods have been developed to detect and analyze the residues. Biosensor is one of the fast detection technologies. In this paper, we reviewed those biosensors according to their unique detection mechanism, fabrication and incorporation with nanomaterials.