An intensive study on pesticides contamination and its removal in fruits and vegetables collected from Ghaziabad, India

These days pesticides are extensively applied in agriculture to increase productivity; although these productivity but also have a negative impact on the consumer. Thus, pesticide exposure agricultural products must be decreased. The present study attempted assess residues samples of apple, tomato, and brinjal determine efficacy washing solutions removal. For sample preparation, QuEChERS method was employed, prepared were analyzed using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. Results revealed that among collected samples, 58.33 percent showing lower as compared maximum residue limit (MRL) while 12.5 higher suggested MRL. Further, from fruits vegetable presence chlorantraniliprole, carbendazim, beta endosulfan, chlorpyrifos, malathion, carbaryl, thiomethoxam, DDT, flubendiamide detected range 0.0–1.41 mg/kg. Among pesticides, chlorpyrifos most commonly pesticides. Effectiveness different studied, which indicated significant reduction all with control (p < 0.05) concluded ascorbic acid sodium bicarbonate solution very effective removal water chemical alone.