Pesticides And Toxins

Pesticide residues in foods: is food safety just a matter of organic versus traditional farming?

To regulate the safety of foods, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has set tolerance levels, or maximum legal limits for pesticide residues on food commodities for sale in the U.S. EPA tolerances are based on a very conservative set of assumptions including that each pesticide is applied at the

Publication Date:

06/11/2007

Author(s): Ric Bessin

Source: University of Kentucky College of Agriculture

Tags:

Food Contamination, Pesticides And Toxins, Pesticide Residues, Food Safety, United States Of America (US)

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Study meeting on quality and safety standards for fruit and vegetables: Taiwan country report

In recent years, the growing international trade in agricultural products has motivated farmers to pay close attention to pest quarantine problems and agrochemical residues in foods. Agrochemical residues in agricultural products are a major consumer health concern and can seriously damage trade between countries.

Publication Date:

01/11/2007

Author(s): & et al, Yu-Ting Huang, Yu-Tang Hung, Pei-Chi Kuo

Source: Council of Agriculture

Tags:

Agriculture, Vegetables, Food Standards, Pesticides And Toxins, Pesticide Regulation, Maximum Residue Level (MRL), Pesticide Residues, Food Safety, Exports, Taiwan

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Development and validation of an HPLC method for the determination of penicillin antibiotics residues in bovine muscle according

A high-performance liquid chromatographic method was developed for the determination of five penicillins: penicillin G (PENG), penicillin V (PENV), oxacillin (OX), cloxacillin (CLO), and dicloxacillin (DICLO), in bovine muscle.

Publication Date:

26/10/2007

Author(s): Styliani A. Nisyriou, Ioannis N. Papadoyannis, Victoria F. Samanidou *

Source: Journal of Separation Science

Vol:

77

Issue:

4

pp:

3193

Tags:

Animal Care, Drugs, Pesticides And Toxins, Residue Testing, High Performance Liquid Chroma- tography (HPLC), Food Safety, European Union (EU)

Pesticides And Toxins

Development and validation of an HPLC method for the determination of penicillin antibiotics residues in bovine muscle

A high-performance liquid chromatographic method was developed for the determination of five penicillins: penicillin G (PENG), penicillin V (PENV), oxacillin (OX), cloxacillin (CLO), and dicloxacillin (DICLO), in bovine muscle.

Publication Date:

26/10/2007

Author(s): Victoria F. Samanidou, Styliani A. Nisyriou, Ioannis N. Papadoyannis

Source: Journal of Separation Science

Vol:

30

Issue:

18

pp:

3193

Tags:

Cattle, Animal Products, Food Contamination, Drugs, Pesticides And Toxins, Maximum Residue Level (MRL), Residue Testing, High Performance Liquid Chroma- tography (HPLC), European Union (EU)

Pesticides And Toxins

Hazardous pesticides in the European parliament

The 28 pesticide residues detected in this analysis of eight fruit items purchased inside the European Parliament building represent the tip of an iceberg: for in total the wider EU food chain is known to be contaminated with at least 324 different agrochemicals.

Publication Date:

01/10/2007

Source: Friends of the Earth Netherlands

Tags:

Pesticides, Food Contamination, Pesticides And Toxins, Maximum Residue Level (MRL), Pesticide Residues, Food Safety, Parliament, Europe, European Union (EU)

Pesticides And Toxins

Analyses of macrolide antibiotic residues in eggs, raw milk, and honey using both ultra-performance liquid chromatography

Two liquid chromatography mass spectrometric techniques, i.e.

Publication Date:

03/09/2007

Author(s): Jian Wang, Daniel Leung

Source: Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry

Vol:

21

Issue:

19

pp:

3213

Tags:

Honey, Animal Products, Milk, Food Contamination, Canada, Drugs, Pesticides And Toxins, Maximum Residue Level (MRL), Residue Testing, High Performance Liquid Chroma- tography (HPLC), Food Safety

Economy

Guidelines for export of Indian mangoes to Japan

This document provides the guidance for the export of commercial shipments of fresh fruits of mango from India to Japan in compliance with the phytosanitary requirements of Japan. The purpose of this document is to facilitate commercial export of fresh fruits of mango from India to Japan after meeting the obligations covered under international agreements such as WTO-SPS agreement/ IPPC.

Publication Date:

01/08/2007

Source: Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority

Tags:

Mango, Pesticides And Toxins, Maximum Residue Level (MRL), Exports, Japan, India

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Distribution and relationship of AB-DTPA extractable heavy metals in soils of Chattha, Jammu

Preliminary study on the ammonium-biocarbonate di-ethylene-triamine penta acetic acid extractable heavy metals and their relationship with different soil properties were observed in twenty-one surface samples of newly established location of S.K. University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Jammu, at Chattha.

Publication Date:

01/07/2007

Author(s): V. Sharma, A.K. Mondal, S. Arora & et al

Source: Indian Journal of Environmental Protection

Vol:

27

Issue:

7

pp:

634

Tags:

Land Pollution, Heavy Metals, India, Jammu & Kashmir, Jammu (D), Statistics

Pesticides And Toxins

Flyash pesticide: New use for an old waste

Scientists of Annamali University, Tamil Nadu, have developed flyash based herbal pesticide with turmeric, neem, eucalyptus, pepper and chilli dust and found them effective against several pests of rice and vegetables. (Courtesy : Down to Earth) July-Sep 2007

Publication Date:

01/07/2007

Author(s): Archita Bhatta

Source: Energy and Environment

Vol:

6

Issue:

3

pp:

71

Tags:

Natural Pesticides, Pest Control, Cement, Research, India, Tamil Nadu, Fly Ash

Pesticides And Toxins

Quantification of low levels of organochlorine pesticides using small volumes of plasma of wild birds through gas chromatography negative chemical ionization mass spectrometry

A solid phase extraction and gas chromatography with negative chemical ionization mass spectrometry in scan mode (GC-NCI-MS) method was developed to identify and quantify for the first time low levels of organochlorine pesticides (OCs) in plasma samples of less than 100 ?l from wild birds.

Publication Date:

01/07/2007

Author(s): Laura B. Rivera-Rodrguez, Ricardo Rodrguez-Estrella, James Jackson Ellington & et al

Source: Environmental Pollution

Vol:

148

Issue:

2

pp:

654

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