Session

Food Science and Technology

Description

The vegetables represent a food with high nutritional values, especially rich in vitamins, minerals and antioxidants, therefore it is recommended their daily consumption at least once up to twice rations per day. Based on this fact, it is of great importance to take into consideration the safety of consumption of vegetables for human health. Therefore, in this study one analyzed the content (presence) of pesticides in certain vegetables such are fresh tomatoes, fresh pepper, beans, fresh cucumbers and fresh carrots. The results that were obtained indicated that overall presence of pesticides in most of the vegetables that were studied, is minimal and within permitted limits, except for the fresh carrots where the presence of pesticide Phosalone, a chemical organophosphate which is used as insecticide and acaricide, is very high and is within maximal allowed limits of 0.01 mg/kg, as well as the presence of pesticide Buprofezin is 0.04 mg/kg which is much closer to the allowed maximal limit of 0.05 mg/kg.

Keywords:

pesticides, vegetables, fresh carrots, Phosalone

Session Chair

Namik Durmishi

Session Co-Chair

Emina Daci

Proceedings Editor

Edmond Hajrizi

ISBN

978-9951-437-63-9

First Page

28

Last Page

32

Location

Durres, Albania

Start Date

28-10-2017 9:00 AM

End Date

28-10-2017 10:30 AM

DOI

10.33107/ubt-ic.2017.156

Download

Included in

Food Science Commons

Share

COinS
 
Oct 28th, 9:00 AM Oct 28th, 10:30 AM

The presence of pesticides in certain imported vegetables in Republic of Kosovo

Durres, Albania

The vegetables represent a food with high nutritional values, especially rich in vitamins, minerals and antioxidants, therefore it is recommended their daily consumption at least once up to twice rations per day. Based on this fact, it is of great importance to take into consideration the safety of consumption of vegetables for human health. Therefore, in this study one analyzed the content (presence) of pesticides in certain vegetables such are fresh tomatoes, fresh pepper, beans, fresh cucumbers and fresh carrots. The results that were obtained indicated that overall presence of pesticides in most of the vegetables that were studied, is minimal and within permitted limits, except for the fresh carrots where the presence of pesticide Phosalone, a chemical organophosphate which is used as insecticide and acaricide, is very high and is within maximal allowed limits of 0.01 mg/kg, as well as the presence of pesticide Buprofezin is 0.04 mg/kg which is much closer to the allowed maximal limit of 0.05 mg/kg.