Incidences of mortality of Indian peafowl Pavo cristatus due to pesticide poisoning in India and accumulation pattern of chlorinated pesticides in tissues of the same species collected from Ahmedabad and Coimbatore

Nambirajan, Kanthan; Muralidharan, Selvadurai; Manonmani, S.; Kirubhanandhini, Venkatachalam; Ganesan, Kitusamy

doi:10.1007/s11356-018-1750-7

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“…In China, the Institute for Control of Agrochemicals regulates pesticides, and most MRLs do not defer to Codex [61,62]. In India, pesticides are regulated under the Central Insecticides Board and Registration Committee (CIB&RC), while the Food Safety and Standard Authority of India (FSSAI) sets the MRLs of registered pesticides [63].…”

Section: The Current Food Safety Regulatory Frameworkmentioning

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Exploring the Potential of Microextraction in the Survey of Food Fruits and Vegetable Safety

et al. 2023

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The increasing demand for food to feed an exponentially growing population, the fast evolution of climate changes, how global warming affects soil productivity, and the erosion of arable lands, create enormous pressure on the food chain. This problem is particularly evident for fresh fruits and vegetables that have a short shelf life. For this reason, food safety precautions are not always a priority and they are often overused to increase the productivity and shelf life of these food commodities, causing concerns among consumers and public authorities. In this context, this review discusses the potential of microextraction in comparison to conventional extraction approaches as a strategy to improve the survey of food safety requirements. Accordingly, selected examples reported in the literature in the last five years will focus on the detection and quantification of pesticides, antibiotics, hormones, and preservatives in fresh fruits and vegetables using different extraction approaches. Overall, the use of microextraction techniques to survey the presence of contaminants in the food chain is very advantageous, involving simpler and faster protocols, reduced amounts of solvents and samples, and consequently, reduced waste produced during analysis while conserving a high potential for automation. Additionally, this higher greener profile of the microextraction techniques will boost a progressive substitution of conventional extraction approaches by microextraction processes in most analytical applications, including the survey of food chain safety.

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Section: The Current Food Safety Regulatory Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…In developing world, China adopted Codex MRLs as organized by the National Pesticide Residues Committee under the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) (Han et al, 2018;Yang et al 2018;Buijs et al, 2018). India pesticides are regulated under the Central Insecticides Board and Registration Committee, while the Food Safety and Standard Authority of India sets the MRLs of registered pesticides (Nambirajan et al, 2018;Zikankuba et al 2019). In the case of Africa, some countries do not have pesticides registry just like some of the countries in the Southern Asia (Handford et al, 2015).…”

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Determining Pesticide Residues in Bee produce and their Potential Risk to Consumers in Tanzania

Kachinde

Fweja

Mihale

2022

IJA

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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine pesticide contamination in bee products in Singida District Municipality of Tanzania, particularly at Kijiji cha Nyuki. The specific focus of the study was to assess the levels of pesticides residues in bee products harvested from the selected bee farms, identifying the common type of pesticides that contaminate honey and honey products on the quality of selected bee products. Material and Methods: A mixed methods approach was adopted for this study and collected data both primary and secondary data was collected using physical observation and survey, interviews and questionnaires, the purposive and random sampling techniques was used in this study to select total of 104 participants who was taken as a sample from universal populations. Qualitative and quantitative data were analysed using IBM Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) Computer Programme version 25, where statistics aspect was determined from the results obtained from both questionnaires and laboratory experiment to the four (4) honey sample Bee pollen One Kg, propolis 500gm, and Bee wax One Kg. Findings: The study found 252 pesticides residues ingredients in beeswax with a mean of 0.03 mg/kg. Lambda-cyhalothrin ingredient had 4.20 mg/kg of the total pesticide’s ingredient found in beeswax against 251 which represent the rest of the pesticides ingredient that were concentrated in the beeswax. In regards with the effect of lambda-cyhalothrin identified in beeswax, bee pollen and honey, the results indicate current concentrations of pesticides in beeswax, bee pollen and honey does not pose risk to human health neither to environment, this is an indication that honey produced in the Kijiji cha Nyuki is safe for consumers as there is very low concentrations of lambda-cyhalothrin in each studies area. Unique Contribution to the Theory, Practice and Policy: It was noted most of the pesticides that found in honey was agricultural pesticides therefore Theory of Planned Behaviour was relevancy in explain the relationship of individual to use pesticides to the agricultural. Therefore, study will contribute to the beekeeping programme guidelines for quality control of bee products to provide thoughtful mitigate to the amount of pesticide contamination in bee and honey products, the study could contribute to policy design and implementation to understanding of how the regulations outlining the use of insecticides is being implemented, and the current economic condition of studied farms.

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“…Bird mortalities may also occur due to feeding on seeds treated with insecticides or other pesticides. This phenomenon has been observed around the world [22], from the USA [155] to India [156] and Korea [157]. These risks have been widely understood by the public since Rachel Carson's 1962 book "Silent Spring" [158] but continue to the present day, and there is still concern that toxicity knowledge is incomplete for modern poisons such as glyphosate [159].…”

Section: Insecticides and Pesticidesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Animal Harms and Food Production: Informing Ethical Choices

Hampton

Hyndman

Allen

et al. 2021

Animals

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Ethical food choices have become an important societal theme in post-industrial countries. Many consumers are particularly interested in the animal welfare implications of the various foods they may choose to consume. However, concepts in animal welfare are rapidly evolving towards consideration of all animals (including wildlife) in contemporary approaches such as “One Welfare”. This approach requires recognition that negative impacts (harms) may be intentional and obvious (e.g., slaughter of livestock) but also include the under-appreciated indirect or unintentional harms that often impact wildlife (e.g., land clearing). This is especially true in the Anthropocene, where impacts on non-human life are almost ubiquitous across all human activities. We applied the “harms” model of animal welfare assessment to several common food production systems and provide a framework for assessing the breadth (not intensity) of harms imposed. We considered all harms caused to wild as well as domestic animals, both direct effects and indirect effects. We described 21 forms of harm and considered how they applied to 16 forms of food production. Our analysis suggests that all food production systems harm animals to some degree and that the majority of these harms affect wildlife, not livestock. We conclude that the food production systems likely to impose the greatest overall breadth of harms to animals are intensive animal agriculture industries (e.g., dairy) that rely on a secondary food production system (e.g., cropping), while harvesting of locally available wild plants, mushrooms or seaweed is likely to impose the least harms. We present this conceptual analysis as a resource for those who want to begin considering the complex animal welfare trade-offs involved in their food choices.

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Incidences of mortality of Indian peafowl Pavo cristatus due to pesticide poisoning in India and accumulation pattern of chlorinated pesticides in tissues of the same species collected from Ahmedabad and Coimbatore

Cited by 13 publications

References 38 publications

Exploring the Potential of Microextraction in the Survey of Food Fruits and Vegetable Safety

Exploring the Potential of Microextraction in the Survey of Food Fruits and Vegetable Safety

Determining Pesticide Residues in Bee produce and their Potential Risk to Consumers in Tanzania

Animal Harms and Food Production: Informing Ethical Choices

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