A. Boenke, Pesticide residue measurements: activities and current research from the EC Standards, Measurements and Testing Programme (SMT), TRAC-TREND, 18(7), 1999, pp. 440-448
The Standards, Measurements and Testing Programme (SMT) of the. European Co
mmission is currently supporting a number of different types of collaborati
ve projects: in the area of pesticide-residue measurements. This article,gi
ves an account of these projects, dealing with the certification of organoc
hlorine pesticides in various matrix reference materials (milk powder, pork
fat, animal feed, fish oil) and polar pesticides in lyophilised water, the
optimisation of methods for organophosphorus pesticides, the development o
f an electrochemical sensor for pesticides in soil and water, the developme
nt of methods for multi-residue pesticides in foodstuffs and water, and per
formance evaluation of CEN multi-residue methods for foodstuffs analysis. (
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