Pesticides residues in vegetables in and around delhi.

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Date :
Août, 2003
Source(s) :
Environmental monitoring and assessment. #86:3 p265-271
Adresse :
Division of Agricultural Chemicals, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India. [email protected]

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This article presents the development of a multiresidue method for the estimation of 30 insecticides, 15 organochlorine insecticides and 6 organophosphorus insecticides, 9 synthetic pyrethriods and 2 herbicides and their quantification in vegetables. The monitoring study indicates that though all the vegetable samples were contaminated with pesticides, only 31% of the samples contained pesticides above the prescribed tolerance limit.

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