Properties and determination of pesticides in fruits and vegetables

Jolanta Fenik; Maciej Tankiewicz; Marek Biziuk

doi:10.1016/j.trac.2011.02.008

Properties and determination of pesticides in fruits and vegetables

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The intensive development of agriculture means that more and more toxic organic and inorganic compounds are entering theenvironment. Because of their widespread use, stability, selective toxicity and bioaccumulation, pesticides are among the mosttoxic substances contaminating the environment. They are particularly dangerous in fruit and vegetables, by which people areexposed to them. It is therefore crucial to monitor pesticide residues in fruit and vegetables using all available analytical methods.We set out the problems in the determination of organonitrogen and organophosphorus pesticides in samples of fruit andvegetables, including the complexity and the diversity of matrices in biological materials, and the very low level of pesticidespresent, as a result of which target analytes have to be isolated and then enriched prior to final determination.We discuss the various stages in the determination of pesticide residues in fruit and vegetables. We present results from theliterature in the context of Maximum Residue Levels (MRLs) of target pesticides in fruit and vegetable samples. We discuss themerits of the Quick, Easy, Cheap, Effective, Rugged, and Safe (QuEChERS) technique and two-dimensional gas chromatography.

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Category:: Articles
Type:: artykuł w czasopiśmie wyróżnionym w JCR
Published in:: TRAC-TRENDS IN ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY no. 30, pages 814 - 826,
ISSN: 0165-9936
Language:: English
Publication year:: 2011
Bibliographic description:: Fenik J., Tankiewicz M., Biziuk M.: Properties and determination of pesticides in fruits and vegetables// TRAC-TRENDS IN ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY. -Vol. 30, nr. iss. 6 (2011), s.814-826
DOI:: Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.1016/j.trac.2011.02.008
Verified by:: Gdańsk University of Technology