Analysis of Residual Pesticides in Agricultural Products using ECD-2010 (Part 2)

Introduction

Lately, public concern regarding the safety of food products has become extremely heightened due to the problem of pesticide residues on imported vegetables and unregistered pesticides being used domestically. Given this situation, the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan is expected to expand to 714 the number of agricultural chemicals regulated with respect to their content in food products. In issue G214 of the Application News, we focused on pesticides that are often detected in imported vegetables and domestic vegetables. In this issue, we will introduce some fundamental data regarding organochlorine pesticides that are among the 244 pesticides currently regulated, other than the substances addressed in the previous issue.

September 5, 2005 GMT