PMID- 15370840
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20050215
LR  - 20131121
IS  - 0265-203X (Print)
IS  - 0265-203X (Linking)
VI  - 21
IP  - 7
DP  - 2004 Jul
TI  - Monitoring of pesticide residues in fresh peaches produced under conventional and 
      integrated crop management cultivation.
PG  - 670-7
AB  - The frequency and severity of crop protection product (pesticide) contamination 
      of peaches grown conventionally were compared with those of peaches grown by 
      integrated crop management (ICM). The peach samples (n = 150) were collected 
      preharvest (June-August 2001) from both conventional (n = 55) and ICM (n = 95) 
      cultivations from the Pella and Imathia districts of Macedonia, Northern Greece. 
      The residue levels of selected insecticides, fungicides and acaricides in peach 
      samples were determined by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry following 
      solid-phase extraction. The concentrations of all detected pesticides were lower 
      than the maximum residue limits (MRLs) in all peach samples grown with the ICM 
      system (p<0.001). However, chlorpyrifos residues at levels higher than the MRLs 
      were detected in four peach samples (i.e. 7% of the total samples) grown by the 
      conventional system. Comparing the results for both cultivation methods with the 
      reported average percentage (3.6%) of fruit samples with pesticide residues above 
      the MRLs (European Union report for Greece in 2001), it was concluded that the 
      initial implementation of the ICM in Greece was successful. The present study 
      indicates that ICM cultivation has a higher efficiency in terms of product safety 
      and quality. Furthermore, the results suggest that the application of 
      conventional cultivation requires continuous monitoring of various crop 
      protection product levels.
FAU - Tsakiris, I N
AU  - Tsakiris IN
AD  - Center of Toxicological Sciences and Research, Medical School, University of 
      Crete, Voutes, Iraklion GR-71409, Crete, Greece.
FAU - Danis, T G
AU  - Danis TG
FAU - Stratis, I A
AU  - Stratis IA
FAU - Nikitovic, D
AU  - Nikitovic D
FAU - Dialyna, I A
AU  - Dialyna IA
FAU - Alegakis, A K
AU  - Alegakis AK
FAU - Tsatsakis, A M
AU  - Tsatsakis AM
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - England
TA  - Food Addit Contam
JT  - Food additives and contaminants
JID - 8500474
RN  - 0 (Fungicides, Industrial)
RN  - 0 (Insecticides)
RN  - 0 (Pesticide Residues)
RN  - JCS58I644W (Chlorpyrifos)
SB  - IM
MH  - Agriculture/*methods
MH  - Chlorpyrifos/analysis
MH  - Environmental Monitoring/methods
MH  - Food Contamination/*analysis
MH  - Fungicides, Industrial/analysis
MH  - Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry/methods
MH  - Greece
MH  - Insecticides/analysis
MH  - Pesticide Residues/*analysis
MH  - Prunus/*chemistry
MH  - Safety
MH  - Time Factors
EDAT- 2004/09/17 05:00
MHDA- 2005/02/16 09:00
CRDT- 2004/09/17 05:00
PHST- 2004/09/17 05:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2005/02/16 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2004/09/17 05:00 [entrez]
AID - NRGNLU5H2PFW0T1W [pii]
AID - 10.1080/02652030410001698715 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Food Addit Contam. 2004 Jul;21(7):670-7. doi: 10.1080/02652030410001698715.