MULTI-RESIDUAL ANALYSIS OF AGRICULTURAL PESTICIDES IN ORANGE FRUITS (Citrusxsinensis Osbeck) FROM MONTEMORELOS, NUEVO LEON, MEXICO

Abstract

The community of Montemorelos is known as “The capital of orange fruit in Mexico”, since it is the major producer of citrus fruits between the six communities that comprises the citrus region of the state of Nuevo Leon in Mexico. That is why Nuevo Leon State has been positioned in the national and international market as an important provider of citrus. Owing to, the international legislations referent to the use of pesticides and their residues in food commodities are becoming more stringent, the objective of this study was to determine pesticides at multi-residual level in orange fruits from citrus orchards from harvest of Montemorelos community and also to evaluate the actual situation respect to the compliance of safety standards on countries of international trade.