Regional behavior of pesticide residues in the United States

1983 ◽  
pp. 257-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. N. Nigg ◽  
J. A. Henry ◽  
J. H. Stamper
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Pesticide Residues ◽  
The United States

Pesticide Residues in Urine of Adults Living in the United States: Reference Range Concentrations

1995 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.H. Hill ◽  
S.L. Head ◽  
S. Baker ◽  
M. Gregg ◽  
D.B. Shealy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Pesticide Residues ◽  
Reference Range ◽  
The United States

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

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 1075
Author(s):  
Vojislava Bursić ◽  
Gorica Vuković ◽  
Magdalena Cara ◽  
Marija Kostić ◽  
Tijana Stojanović ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Environmental Protection Agency ◽  
Pesticide Residues ◽  
Plant Protection ◽  
Plant Protection Products ◽  
The United States ◽  
Organic Production ◽  
United States Department ◽  
Conventional Agriculture ◽  
Ecologically Sustainable

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.

scholarly journals Trends in neonicotinoid pesticide residues in food and water in the United States, 1999–2015

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hillary A. Craddock ◽  
Dina Huang ◽  
Paul C. Turner ◽  
Lesliam Quirós-Alcalá ◽  
Devon C. Payne-Sturges
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Pesticide Residues ◽  
The United States

Pesticide Residue Levels in Foods in the United States from July 1,1969, to June 30,1976: Summary

1983 ◽  
Vol 66 (6) ◽  
pp. 1534-1535
Author(s):  
Reo E Duggan ◽  
Paul E Corneliussen ◽  
Mary B Duggan ◽  
Bernadette M Mcmahon ◽  
Robert J Martin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Pesticide Residue ◽  
Food Supply ◽  
Pesticide Residues ◽  
The United States ◽  
Residue Levels ◽  
The U.S

Abstract The U.S. food supply was examined for pesticide residues during the 7-year period covering Fiscal Years (FY) 1970 through 1976. The results, which are contained in the report summarized here, are a continuation of an earlier report for the 6-year period FY 1964-1969.

scholarly journals Dietary Exposure to Pesticide Residues from Commodities Alleged to Contain the Highest Contamination Levels

2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl K. Winter ◽  
Josh M. Katz
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Pesticide Residues ◽  
Pesticide Exposure ◽  
Dietary Exposure ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Department ◽  
Advocacy Group ◽  
Environmental Advocacy ◽  
Bell Peppers ◽  
Data Program

Probabilistic techniques were used to characterize dietary exposure of consumers to pesticides found in twelve commodities implicated as having the greatest potential for pesticide residue contamination by a United States-based environmental advocacy group. Estimates of exposures were derived for the ten most frequently detected pesticide residues on each of the twelve commodities based upon residue findings from the United States Department of Agriculture's Pesticide Data Program. All pesticide exposure estimates were well below established chronic reference doses (RfDs). Only one of the 120 exposure estimates exceeded 1% of the RfD (methamidophos on bell peppers at 2% of the RfD), and only seven exposure estimates (5.8 percent) exceeded 0.1% of the RfD. Three quarters of the pesticide/commodity combinations demonstrated exposure estimates below 0.01% of the RfD (corresponding to exposures one million times below chronic No Observable Adverse Effect Levels from animal toxicology studies), and 40.8% had exposure estimates below 0.001% of the RfD. It is concluded that (1) exposures to the most commonly detected pesticides on the twelve commodities pose negligible risks to consumers, (2) substitution of organic forms of the twelve commodities for conventional forms does not result in any appreciable reduction of consumer risks, and (3) the methodology used by the environmental advocacy group to rank commodities with respect to pesticide risks lacks scientific credibility.

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