File Info : sanidad vegetal

Contents : Application of Rapid Bioassay of Pesticide Residues on Fruits and Vegetables as a Complement to Conventional Chemical Analysis Techniques. Jorge Requena1 Brenda Checa2 Introduction: In the last three years (2005-2007) the amount of pesticides used in panamanian agriculture has increased from 5.8 to 7.2 million kilograms. Insecticides represented a quarter of the total weight of pesticides imported to Panama with 66.2% of organophosphates and 23.4 % of carbamates (fig. 1). Both types of insectici...[more]

---