• Title/Summary/Keyword: Unintentional Carry-Over

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Monitoring of Unregistered Pesticides Contaminated in the Domestic Crops Grown under Good Agricultural Practices (국내 농산물우수관리인증 농산물의 미등록농약 오염 실태 조사)

  • Kim, Jun-Sung;Oh, Deog-Hwan
    • Journal of Food Hygiene and Safety
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    • v.32 no.4
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    • pp.275-283
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    • 2017
  • We inspected contaminations of pesticides in the 3,313 crop samples grown under the standard of Korean Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) between 2014 to 2016 May. According to our inspection, violations by unregistered pesticide contaminations far outweighed those by exceeding maximum residue limits. Most of the crops contaminated with unregistered pesticides were minor vegetable crops, for which far less pesticide products are registered compared to cereal grains and fruits. And in our second study, the pesticide in the sprayer was removed 90% or more, but not totally by serial rinses. From this result, it is assumed that pesticide remained in the rinsed sprayer can be carried over to crops unintentionally. Our study shows that supplying pesticide products evenly to all kinds of crops and allowing unintentional carry-over of unregistered pesticides to a certain extent are solutions to revitalize depressed Korean Good Agricultural Practices.