RESIDUES OF SOME PESTICIDES IN FRESH AND DRIED APRICOTS

Authors
CABRAS P ANGIONI A GARAU VL MINELLI EV CABITZA F CUBEDDU M
Citation
P. Cabras et al., RESIDUES OF SOME PESTICIDES IN FRESH AND DRIED APRICOTS, Journal of agricultural and food chemistry, 45(8), 1997, pp. 3221-3222
Citations number
5
Categorie Soggetti
Food Science & Tenology",Agriculture,"Chemistry Applied
Journal title
Journal of agricultural and food chemistry → ACNP
ISSN journal
00218561
Volume
45
Issue
8
Year of publication
1997
Pages
3221 - 3222
Database
ISI
SICI code
0021-8561(1997)45:8<3221:ROSPIF>2.0.ZU;2-M
Abstract
The persistence of three pesticides (fenitrothion, dimethoate, and zir am) in apricots in field conditions and their fate during the drying p rocess were studied. After the treatments, the pesticides showed fast decay rates with pseudo-first-order kinetics and half-lives ranging fr om 6.9 to 9.9 days. The drying process showed a different effect on re sidue concentrations in dried apricots: omethoate (metabolite of dimet hoate) and ziram residues had almost doubled, while fenitrothion disap peared and dimethoate remained constant.