Beginning in the 1980s, concerns about the deleterious effects of synthetic pesticides have driven a significant Southeast Asian research and development effort directed towards alternative pest control strategies, including the use of microbial control agents. Despite this effort, use of microbial control agents has grown slowly in the region. This is the result of an interplay between interna...

Residues of plant protection products can be nowadays found in almost all samples of fruits as even if their application was carried out with respect to standards of Good Agricultural Practice. The intake of these compounds with food of plant origin may result in various disorders and diseases. Since the use of plant protection agents seems unavoidable, it is necessary to treat contaminated foo...

The growing public concern about groundwater contamination, pesticide residues, soil erosion, and wildlife habitat runs parallel to “an emerging interest by many farmers for a more costeffective and environmentally benign agriculture” (USDA, 1990). But only a small number of farmers are using alternative farming systems (Board of Agriculture, 1989). The cause of the limited adoption of sustaina...

The sources of quantitative and qualitative uncertainties of the exposure of a consumer to a pesticide residue are identified. The contribution of quantifiable uncertainties of input parameters of deterministic model to the combined uncertainty of the estimated exposure is shown with detailed calculation using the pesticide residue content of food consumed during two days. The daily intakes of ...

Tijana Đorđević1*, Slavica Šiler-Marinković2, Rada Đurović-Pejčev1, Suzana Dimitrijević-Branković2 and Jelena Gajić Umiljendić1 1Institute of Pesticides and Environmental Protection, 11080 Belgrade, Serbia ([email protected]) 2University of Belgrade, Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy, Division of Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Karnegijeva 4, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia Rec...

background: the objective of this study was to determine the residual concentrations of ethion and imidacloprid in cucumbers grown in greenhouse. the effect of some simple processing procedures on both ethion and imidacloprid residues were also studied. methods: ten active greenhouses that produce cucumber were randomly selected. ethion and imidacloprid as the most widely used pesticides were m...

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