High Polar Pesticide Analysis

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 the high polarity, it is difficult to analyze polar pesticides with the liquid chromatography method. Extraction and separation using many different methods to date have made these analyzes more complex and expensive. For this reason, studies are underway to develop a robust and sensitive multi-analyte method for polar pesticides that do not create time, work or cost difficulties. The liquid chromatography - mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) method includes the detection of polar pesticides and their metabolites or counterions. These methods have been successfully validated on cereal matrices as well as different fruits and vegetables.

In the field of food safety, there is a growing demand for the detection and quantification of pesticides. However, several polar pesticides are extremely difficult to identify because of their poor response, often in older mass spectrometry models.. Therefore, single residue methods are often used to analyze these compounds. However, the application of single residue methods requires significant laboratory resources relative to the number of compounds analyzed. Therefore, the cost is sometimes prohibitive and these compounds are often not analyzed on a regular basis. Consequently, there is a need for simple and rapid analytical methods that analyze polar pesticides using a single extraction and detection approach and reliably detect maximum residue level violations.

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.