The presence of pesticide residues in primary and derived agricultural products raises serious health concerns for consumers. The aim of this study was to assess the level of pesticide residues in commonly consumed fruits and vegetables in Kuwait. A total of 150 samples of different fresh vegetables and fruits were analyzed for the presence of 34 pesticides using the quick easy cheap effective ...

Pesticides are widely used in agriculture mainly to increase crop yields to cater huge supply of food products for increasing world population as well as to protect crops from pests and control insect-borne diseases. Increased use of pesticides results in contamination of the environment and the excess accumulation of pesticide residues in food products, which has always been a matter of seriou...

objective: the usage of pesticides has increased during the recent years. one the other hand, presence of harmful pesticides residue in rice and other food has caused a great concern among the consumers. therefore, it is important to develop some pragmatic procedures to increase the food safety along with the reduction in consumption of pesticide residues. methods: a gas chromatograph with elec...

Quantitative measurements of environmental factors greatly improve the quality of epidemiologic studies but can pose challenges because of the presence of upper or lower detection limits or interfering compounds, which do not allow for precise measured values. We consider the regression of an environmental measurement (dependent variable) on several covariates (independent variables). Various s...

Pesticides are very hazardous and lethal for organisms as well as for humans. They present danger to consumers, bystanders and workers during manufacture, transport or, during and after use. Pesticides are also toxic to plants and many food crops, including fruits and vegetables, contain pesticide residues after being washed or peeled. Pesticides decrease the biodiversity in soil and it has bee...

A total of 144 Kg of strawberry and 38 soil samples, representing two types of farming production e.g. conventional (C), organic (O), was collected from (Bilbeis and AL-Salhia, New AL-Sharqiya governorate) Egypt. Pesticides residues were determined by gas chromatography with mass selective detector (GC-MSD). This method used to determine 86 pesticide residues with a broad range of physico-chemi...

Organochlorine pesticides were tested in order to establish optimal conditions for rapid detection in dried leafy matrices, using DRS software. In tests we have used dried Trifolium pratense herba fortified with OC pesticide mix, processed with modified QuEChERS method. Instrumental analysis was carried out complying Agilent "key" condition, column of 15 m, in which case the retention time for ...

Chiu and her colleagues from Harvard School of Public Health and Massachusetts General Hospital present important new data on semen quality in relation to dietary pesticide exposure via fruit and vegetable intake (Chiu et al., 2015). To examine this relationship the authors utilized a novel approach that classifies fruits and vegetables into high versus low-to-moderate pesticide residue groups ...