The world's population is increasing exponentially. In fact, the population is expected to increase by 35 billion in the next 2,4 years. In this case, it is seen that the use of pesticides is inevitable for human nutrition. Pesticides are chemical compounds that prevent harmful organisms from harming plants and animals and ensure agricultural yield and therefore food availability.
Polar pesticides are widely used in agriculture as a total herbicide, growth regulator, maturation accelerator or fungicide. Studies have revealed the partial toxicological effects of these compounds. Through extensive application, polar pesticides become effective against biodiversity and promote resistances that require further use.
Due to their high polarity, polar pesticides are difficult to analyze using liquid chromatography. To date, extraction and separation using numerous different methods have made these analyses more complex and expensive. Therefore, research continues into developing a robust and sensitive multi-analyte method for polar pesticides that does not create time, labor, or cost constraints. Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) involves the detection of polar pesticides and their metabolites or counterions. These methods have been successfully validated on various fruits and vegetables, as well as cereal matrices.
In the field of food safety, there is a growing demand for the detection and quantification of pesticides. However, the identification of several polar pesticides is extremely difficult, often due to their poor responses in older mass spectrometry models . Therefore, single residue methods are commonly used to analyze these compounds. However, the application of single residue methods requires significant laboratory resources depending on the number of compounds analyzed. Thus, cost is sometimes prohibitive, and these compounds are often not analyzed regularly. Consequently, there is a need for simple and rapid analytical methods that analyze polar pesticides using a single extraction and detection approach and reliably identify violations of maximum residue levels.
Our organization also provides highly polar pesticide analysis services with its trained and expert staff and advanced technological equipment, among the numerous test, measurement, analysis and evaluation studies it provides for businesses in various sectors.
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