ISHS Acta Horticulturae 696: VII International Symposium on Temperate Zone Fruits in the Tropics and Subtropics - Part Two
MONITORING OF APPLE FOR PESTICIDE RESIDUE CONTAMINATION - A SURVEY REPORT |
| Authors: | J.K. Dubey, A. Nath |
| Keywords: | apple, organochlorine, organophosphorous, ethylene-bis-dithiocarbamate |
| Abstract:
Pesticide use has improved both efficiency of growing apple as well as the quality of fruit produced. Consumer groups in general are demanding assurance from the agricultural community that the fruit we eat is indeed safe. As a response to this concern, during a period of more than a decade (1988-2002), 327 numbers of apple samples were monitored from apple growing pockets of Himachal Pradesh for the possible contaminants of organochlorine, organophoshporous insecticides as well as for ethylene-bis-dithiocarbamate (EBDC), copper and carbendazim fungicide residues. Out of 327 samples, 101 were contaminated with EBDC, while 33 samples out of 286, 20 samples out of 246 and 9 samples out of 97 were contaminated with organochlorine, organophosphorous and carbendazim, respectively. Nine samples of apple had exceeded the MRL (3 ppm on CS2 basis). There is a continuous reduction of contaminated samples collected after 1996, may be due to judicious use of pesticide in the state amongst the growers. | |
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