Pesticide and plasticizer residues in bergamot essential oils from Calabria (Italy)

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Giuseppa Di BellaGiacomo Dugo

Abstract

Organophosphorus and organochlorine pesticides, phosphorated plasticizers, chloroparaffins and phthalate esters contamination in bergamot essential oils produced in Calabria in the crop years 1999-2000 was studied by HRGC in connection with detectors FPD, ECD, MS. Residues of dicofol and tetradifon were found in oils from both crop years. The mean dicofol concentration was 0.26 mg/l in samples from 1999 and 0.20 mg/l in those from 2000; the mean tetradifon content was 0.06 mg/l for both the crop years. Among plasticizers, residues of diisobutyl phthalate, di-n-butyl phthalate, and bis(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate were found in samples from crop years 1999 and 2000, the mean content were 1.22 and 1.23 mg/l, 1.51 and 1.65 mg/l, 1.38 and 1.42 mg/l respectively.

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Dec 20, 1999·Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry·G Di BellaG Dugo
Mar 22, 2000·Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry·M SaittaG Dugo
Oct 29, 2000·Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry·G Di BellaG Dugo
Aug 22, 2001·Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry·G Di BellaG Dugo

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