Pesticide residue levels in Argentinian pasteurised milk.
Pasteurised milk--120 samples--was analysed (in Santa Fe City, Argentina) to determine organochlorinated pesticides. Almost all samples showed the presence of such residues; the compounds more frequently detected being: heptachlor and its epoxide (98%) and hexachlorocyclohexane .HCH. alpha and gamma isomers. Residues of aldrin and dieldrin; chlordane (alpha and gamma); endosulfan (I and II); DDT (o,p-DDT, p,p'-DDE, o,p-DDD, p,p'-DDD) as well as hexachlorocyclobenzene (HCB) were also found. Despite their presence high concentrations are sporadic, the mean values being less than FAO/OMS tolerance limits. Relations between maxima concentrations and seasons were not found.
Instituto de Desarrollo Tecnológico para la Industria Química-INTEC-(Universidad Nacional del Litoral-Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas) (CONICET), Santa Fe, Republica Argentina.
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D000818:Animals; D001118:Argentina; D006843:Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated; D007306:Insecticides / Q000032:analysis*; D008452:Maximum Allowable Concentration; D008892:Milk / Q000737:chemistry*; D010573:Pesticide Residues / Q000032:analysis*
D006843:Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated; D007306:Insecticides; D010573:Pesticide Residues