a reliable, rapid and accurate method based on spiked calibration curves and direct sample introduction was developed for determination of 17 pesticide residues in rice by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry single quadrupole selected ion monitoring gc/ms-sq-sim. sample preparation is based on extraction with acetonitrile without clean up. the use of spiked calibration curves for constructing ...

zebra fish were exposed to environmentally relevant concentration of pesticides and metals fora period of 14 days. the individual and the combined toxicity of pesticides and metals were studied. damage caused to the dna and induction of mutation in the gadd45β gene was investigated in this study. the present investigation revealed that exposure of zebra fish to pesticides and metals induced dna...

considering the increasing rice consumption in the world and also the excessive application of pesticides to increase production, an experiment was conducted to determine the pesticide residues and their effects on nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus content of hashemi, khazar and gohar (sa13) rice cultivars, in a factorial design at randomized complete block design with three replications. in t...

Urea herbicides form, together with phenoxy derivatives and triazines, the most important agricultural herbicide group. The urea-derivatives are typical pre-emergence herbicides applied usually as aqueous emulsions to the surface of soil. Almost all of the urea compounds with good herbicidal action are trisubstituted ureas, containing a free iminohydrogen. According to the receptor theory, this...

In current study, the effects of Iranian rice cooking method (Kateh) on residue levels of 41 pesticides were investigated. The pesticides were selected according to Iranian National Standards Organization (INSO) regulations and covered 18 permitted and 23 banned pesticides belonging to different chemical classes such as organophosphate, triazole, and carbamate. A 250 g portion of rice sample wa...

Of the 1,693 pesticides considered in this review, 1,594 are organic chemicals, 47 are inorganic chemicals, 53 are of biological origin (largely non chemical; insect,fungus, bacteria, virus, etc.), and 2 have an undetermined structure. Considering that the EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs found 1,252 pesticide active ingredients(EPA Pesticides Customer Service 2011), we consider this dataset ...

OBJECTIVE To describe the occupational exposure to acute poisoning by pesticides, especially organophosphates, and its incidence. METHODS A descriptive study was carried out on 290 family fruit farmers in the municipality of Bento Gonçalves, Southern Brazil, conducted in two stages in 2006. Two hundred and forty-one of these workers completed the two stages, which corresponded to periods of l...

The relation between hypertension and cognition in elders remains unclear, and studies on the effect of antihypertensive drugs on cognition have demonstrated conflicting results. This study was performed to evaluate if the association between hypertension and cognition in elders differed depending on serum concentrations of organochlorine (OC) pesticides, common neurotoxic chemicals. Participan...

UNLABELLED A gas chromatography mass spectrometry with spike calibration curve method was used to quantify three carbamate pesticides residue in cooked white rice and to estimate the reduction percentage of the cooking process duration. The selected pesticides are three carbamate pesticides including carbaryl and pirimicarb that their MRL is issued by "The Institute of Standards of Iran" and pr...

Pesticides are extensively world wide used for agriculture and for non-agricultural purposes. The major environmental concern of used pesticides is their ability to leach down to subsoil and contaminate the ground water, or, if they immobile, they could persist on the top soil and become harmful to microorganisms, plants, animal and people (Jha & Mishra 2005; Radivojević et al., 2008). Harmfull...