PMID- 33759100 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20210728 LR - 20210728 IS - 1614-7499 (Electronic) IS - 0944-1344 (Linking) VI - 28 IP - 29 DP - 2021 Aug TI - Levels of pesticide residues in fruits and vegetables in the Turkish domestic markets. PG - 39451-39457 LID - 10.1007/s11356-021-13538-w [doi] AB - In this work, pesticide residues in 493 fruit and vegetable samples obtained from markets in Turkey were detected after QuEChERS (quick, easy, cheap, effective, rugged, and safe) extraction followed by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry with electron spray ionization (LC-ESI/MS/MS) and gas chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (GC/MS/MS). Validation of the method was tested based on the European Union SANTE/12682/2019 guidelines. The samples were analyzed to determine the concentrations of 500 pesticide residues. The results indicated that 254 samples of 493 samples contaminated with pesticides, only 22% contained pesticide residues at or below maximum residue limits (MRLs), and 30% contained pesticide residues above MRLs. Chlorpyrifos was the most common pesticide (105 samples) from the detected pesticides; 49 samples were found above to MRLs with concentrations of 0.011-2.001 mg/kg. Among samples, peach (88%), dill (84%), mushroom (83%), arugula (73%), and spinach (72%) were the crops with the higher percentages of pesticide residues. CI - (c) 2021. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature. FAU - Toptanci, Isra AU - Toptanci I AD - Istanbul Food Control Laboratory, Istanbul, Turkey. FAU - Kiralan, Mustafa AU - Kiralan M AD - Engineering Faculty, Food Engineering Department, Balikesir University, Balikesir, Turkey. FAU - Ramadan, Mohamed Fawzy AU - Ramadan MF AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-5431-8503 AD - Agricultural Biochemistry Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Zagazig University, Zagazig, 44519, Egypt. hassanienmohamed@yahoo.com. AD - Deanship of Scientific Research, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. hassanienmohamed@yahoo.com. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20210323 PL - Germany TA - Environ Sci Pollut Res Int JT - Environmental science and pollution research international JID - 9441769 RN - 0 (Pesticide Residues) SB - IM MH - Food Contamination/analysis MH - Fruit/chemistry MH - Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry MH - *Pesticide Residues/analysis MH - Tandem Mass Spectrometry MH - Turkey MH - Vegetables OTO - NOTNLM OT - Food contaminant OT - Food safety OT - GC/MS/MS OT - LC/MS/MS OT - QuEChERS OT - Validation EDAT- 2021/03/25 06:00 MHDA- 2021/07/29 06:00 CRDT- 2021/03/24 06:59 PHST- 2021/01/06 00:00 [received] PHST- 2021/03/16 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2021/03/25 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2021/07/29 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2021/03/24 06:59 [entrez] AID - 10.1007/s11356-021-13538-w [pii] AID - 10.1007/s11356-021-13538-w [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2021 Aug;28(29):39451-39457. doi: 10.1007/s11356-021-13538-w. Epub 2021 Mar 23.