Occurrence of pesticide residues in harvested products of various crops from European conventional and organic farming systems

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14310%2F25%3A00142045" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14310/25:00142045 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304389425020291?via%3Dihub" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304389425020291?via%3Dihub</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2025.139113" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.jhazmat.2025.139113</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Occurrence of pesticide residues in harvested products of various crops from European conventional and organic farming systems

Original language description

The occurrence of 192 pesticide residues was analysed in harvested products from conventional (CF) and organic farms (OF) across European countries, focusing on vineyards, orchards, vegetables, oilseeds, and cereals. Pesticide residues were detected in 85.7 % of CF samples, with 71.4 % having multiple residues, and in 40.0 % of OF samples, with 13.7 % having multiple residues. Total and median concentrations of detected residues were higher in CF than OF samples. The highest total concentration per sample was found in Portugal (214 mu g/kg) for CF and Czechia (37 mu g/kg) for OF. Fungicide pyrimethanil (290 mu g/kg), herbicide glyphosate (192 mu g/kg), and insecticide phosmet (177 mu g/kg) showed the highest median concentrations in CF. Insecticide cypermethrin had the highest median concentration (88 mu g/kg)in OF, while other substances were &lt;= 10 mu g/kg. OF had a higher proportion of banned substances than CF. In 12.2 % of CF samples and 5.3 % OF samples, the residue levels exceeded maximum residue levels. Our results highlight that the pesticide presence in crops is affected not only by farming systems but also by agricultural practices and crop types. Current risk assessment focuses on single substances and does not account for the exposure to multiple residues. However, our results demonstrated a frequent detection of multiple residues in CF samples.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS

ISSN

0304-3894

e-ISSN

1873-3336

Volume of the periodical

495

Issue of the periodical within the volume

September 2025

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

1-12

UT code for WoS article

001527015300006

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-105009516346