Plant Protection Products Residues Assessment in the Organic and Conventional Agricultural Production

Vojislava Bursić, Gorica Vuković, Magdalena Cara, Marija Kostić, Tijana Stojanović, Aleksandra Petrović, Nikola Puvača, Dušan Marinković and Bojan Konstantinović
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Vojislava Bursić: Department for Phytomedicine and Environmental Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Novi Sad, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia
Gorica Vuković: Center for Hygiene and Human Ecology, Institute of Public Health of Belgrade, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
Magdalena Cara: Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture and Environment, Agricultural University of Tirana, 1029 Tirana, Albania
Marija Kostić: Faculty of Hotel Management and Tourism, University of Kragujevac, 36210 Vrnjacka Banja, Serbia
Tijana Stojanović: Department for Phytomedicine and Environmental Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Novi Sad, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia
Aleksandra Petrović: Department for Phytomedicine and Environmental Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Novi Sad, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia
Nikola Puvača: Department of Engineering Management in Biotechnology, Faculty of Economics and Engineering Management in Novi Sad, University Business Academy in Novi Sad, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia
Dušan Marinković: Department for Phytomedicine and Environmental Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Novi Sad, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia
Bojan Konstantinović: Department for Phytomedicine and Environmental Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Novi Sad, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 3, 1-13

Abstract: The organic food is progressively enticing purchasers’ attention, as it is recognized to be better than the food produced by the conventional agriculture and more sustainable for the natural environment. Pesticides and their metabolites can enter the human body via food and water. In the food production, over 60 thousand chemical agents are applied, while 90% of the harmful substances are consumed. The organic production is based on the qualitative and healthy food using the natural resources in an ecologically sustainable way. The European Regulations set the maximum pesticide levels (MRLs) in the organic products, which are also regulated by The United States Department of Agriculture in their National program supported by The United States Environmental Protection Agency. It is imperative to bear in mind that in the products from the organic production, the multiple detections cannot be tolerated, i.e., that one product cannot contain more than two detected pesticide residues. In this paper, a multi-residue pesticide method has been developed to determine the pesticides in the agricultural products from the organic and conventional production. In this work, 60 pesticides were analyzed using a simple QuEChERS sample preparation procedure, followed by LC-MS/MS. The tomato, potato, apple, and carrot samples from the organic and conventional products were collected from the market and the pesticide residues assessment comparing the organic to the conventional was done.

Keywords: plant protection product residues; organic and conventional agriculture; LC-MS/MS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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