Open AccessHYGIENIC GROUNDS FOR SELECTION CRITERIA FOR PESTICIDE DETECTION IN AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES, FOOD PRODUCTS AND SOIL (EXAMPLE FOR FUNGICIDES)
Author(s) -
А. М. Антоненко,
О. P. Vavrinevych,
S. Т. Omelchuk,
В.Г. Бардов,
Alex Borisenko
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
aktualʹnì problemi sučasnoï medicini: vìsnik ukraïnsʹkoï medičnoï stomatologìčnoï akademì
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2077-1126
pISSN - 2077-1096
DOI - 10.31718/2077-1096.19.3.104
Subject(s) - fungicide , pesticide , hazardous waste , agriculture , environmental science , toxicology , agrochemical , hazard , agricultural science , acceptable daily intake , mathematics , agricultural engineering , geography , agronomy , engineering , waste management , biology , ecology , archaeology
Despite its effectiveness and extensive use, pesticides pose a serious risk to human health. The main way of their penetration into the human body is with food intake. The purpose of this study was to provide hygienic grounds for selecting criteria for pesticide detection in agricultural raw commodities, foodstuffs and soil on the example for fungicide). Materials and methods. The stability parameters of the investigated fungicides in crops typical for soil and climatic conditions of Ukraine have been presented by the results obtained in own field studies. Statistical processing of the results was performed by using the IBM SPSS Statistics Base v.22 Licensed Statistical Suite. Results and Discussion. In order to provide scientific and methodological grounds for national-scale monitoring of fungicide use, the study on dynamics of pesticide content in soil and agricultural commodities and on prediction of the safety of food grown on the soil treated with fungicides of different classes were conducted. According to the hygienic classification of pesticides by their stability in soil and in agricultural commodities, triazoles class compounds have been found out as the most hazardous; the classes of strobilurins, ethylene-bis-dithiocarbamates, cyanopyffoles, anilidopirimidines and anilides have been classified as moderately hazardous, and pyrazolecarboxamides have been assessed as low hazardous. According to the integral hazard index of food contaminated with pesticides, the most of the tested compounds belong to the 3 hazard classes, except for triazoles, strobilurins, and ethylene-bis-dithiocarbamates, which belong to the 2 hazard classes. Conclusion. The following selection criteria have been proposed for monitoring the level of agricultural commodity and food contamination with fungicides: allowable daily dose, hazard class according to toxicity parameters, half-life in agricultural commodities. For soil monitoring, it is recommended to take into account the organic carbon sorption coefficient, allowable daily dose, hazard class according to the parameters of toxicity, half-life in soil, persistence index.