Assessment of Pesticide Residues in Peach (Prunus persica L.) from Swat and Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Bilal Jan1, Farida Anjum1*, Aasma Bibi1, Syed Roohul Hussain1, Abdul Ahad1, Azeem ud Deen1, Zia Ullah2 and Farrakh Mehboob3
1Pesticide Residues and Quality Control Laboratory, Directorate of Soil and Plant Nutrition, Agriculture Research Institute, Tarnab, Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan; 2Directorate of Soil and Plant Nutrition, Agriculture Research Institute, Tarnab, Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan; 3Ecotoxicology Research Program, IPEP, NARC, Islamabad, Pakistan.
*Correspondence | Farida Anjum, Pesticide Residues and Quality Control Laboratory, Directorate of Soil and Plant Nutrition, Agriculture Research Institute, Tarnab, Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan; Email:
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Figure 1:
Intra-day (A) and inter-day (B) repeatability for the pesticides in the peach matrix (n=5).
Figure 2:
Contamination trend: (A) among the analysed varieties. (B) based on the chemical classes of the studies compounds.