Safe apples for baby-food production: Survey of pesticide treatment regimes leaving minimum residues
Titel:
Safe apples for baby-food production: Survey of pesticide treatment regimes leaving minimum residues
Auteur:
Ticha, Jana Hajslova, Jana Kovalczuk, Tomas Jech, Martin Honzicek, Jiri Kocourek, Vladimir Lansky, Miroslav Kloutvorova, Jana Falta, Vladan
Verschenen in:
Food additives and contaminants. Pt. A, Chemistry, analysis, control, exposure & risk assessment
Paginering:
Jaargang 24 (2007) nr. 6 pagina's 605-620
Jaar:
2007-06
Inhoud:
A total of 19 pesticide preparations were used according to agricultural practice in six trials in apple orchards. Using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) and liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS), premature Golden Delicious apples collected 64, 50, 36 days before harvest and mature fruit were examined for residues of active ingredients. No residues of triflumuron, triazamate, chlorpyrifos, etofenprox, fenoxycarb, kresoxim-methyl, cyprodinyl, difenoconazole or thiram were detected in the first sampling. Also, the levels of chlorpyrifos-methyl, penconazole, tebuconazole and tolylfluanid dropped during the pre-harvest interval. Detectable residues of pyridaben, thiacloprid, trifloxystrobin and tetraconazole in harvested fruits were below 0.01 mg kg-1, which is the maximum concentration of residues acceptable by baby-food producers in any raw material. The only residues exceeding this concentration were captan and teflubenzuron. Based on the data, farmers can choose pesticides for optimal treatment of plants, while enabling growth of a safe crop suitable for baby-food production.