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PESTICIDE RESIDUES IN SELECTED WHOLE AND PROCESSED FOOD GRAINS GROWN IN SOUTHERN ZONE OF ANDHRAPRADESH

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Title PESTICIDE RESIDUES IN SELECTED WHOLE AND PROCESSED FOOD GRAINS GROWN IN SOUTHERN ZONE OF ANDHRAPRADESH
 
Creator LAKSHMI.APARNA, M.A.N
 
Contributor VIJAYA LAKSHMI, V
 
Subject pesticides, sampling, grain, rice, pesticide residues, crops, selection, biological phenomena, storage, cereals
FOOD GRAINS, SOUTHERN ZONE, ANDHRAPRADESH
 
Description Pesticide is any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing,
destroying, repelling or mitigating any pest. It is also used as substances applied to crops
either before or after harvest to protect the commodity from deterioration during storage
and transport (FAO, 2002).
Increased realization in the recent years regarding the presence of harmful
pesticide residues in the food consumed had a negative impact on an individual’s health.
Food safety is an area which has concern on the account of food on human health.
Therefore, the present study was undertaken to assess the pesticide residue of the
selected whole and processed food grains grown in Southern zone of Andhrapradesh.
The selected samples rice, redgram, blackgram and bengalgram were collected
randomly from the farmers of 3 districts (Chittoor, Nellore and Kadapa) and
homogenised.
The study had two aspects as field work and lab analysis. Field work included
the procurement of samples from the farmers and to know the awareness of the farmers
regarding the pesticide package of practices. The lab work included the analysis of
nutritional quality and pesticide residue content.
The nutritional quality of the selected samples included moisture, fat, protein,
ash, fibre and carbohydrate analysis according to AOAC 1981, 1990 and 2005 methods.
The pesticide residue content included monochrotophos, chloripyriphos, quinalphos,
endosulphan, carbofuran and acephate by multiresidue analysis method (1983).
The values of the proximates i.e., moisture, protein, fat, fibre, ash and
carbohydrates were tabulated and the results obtained showed that there exists
significant difference between whole and processed food grains with respect to all the 6
parameters of the four selected crops except for protein of blackgram, fibre and fat of
rice, ash and carbohydrate of redgram and bengalgram.
The pesticide residual content of the selected whole and processed grains
showed that average percent recoveries at the spiking levels were not detected (BDL)
for any of the pesticides in all the samples. As the samples selected had enough safety
limiting period the pesticide metabolites were degraded. Prolonged storage and
exposure to pre-processing techniques also contributed for the declinement of pesticide
residues. So, the pesticide residues of samples were declined. Therefore, cereals and
pulses are safe for consumption.
 
Date 2016-06-01T14:49:08Z
2016-06-01T14:49:08Z
2011
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/66563
 
Language en
 
Relation D8935;
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher ACHARYA N.G. RANGA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY