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Determination of pesticide residues in Turkey’s table grapes: the effect of integrated pest management, organic farming, and conventional farming

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Turkey is one of the world’s largest producers and exporters of table grapes. Growing social concerns over excessive pesticide use have led to farming to move from conventional to organic practices. Table grapes were collected from 99 different farms in three Aegean regions. Pesticide residues were only detected in farms using conventional agriculture practices while no pesticides were detected in grapes from farms using organic or integrated pest management. A risk assessment model indicated that lambda-cyhalothrin posed the most significant risk at conventional farms.

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  1. Faculty of Agriculture, Adnan Menderes University, Aydin, Turkey

    Cafer Turgut

  2. Bornova Plant Protection Research Institute, Izmir, Turkey

    Hakan Ornek

  3. Department Civil Engineering, The University of Akron, Akron, OH, USA

    Teresa J. Cutright

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Turgut, C., Ornek, H. & Cutright, T.J. Determination of pesticide residues in Turkey’s table grapes: the effect of integrated pest management, organic farming, and conventional farming. Environ Monit Assess 173, 315–323 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-010-1389-4

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