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| Author(s): |
Fabiana Cerri
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Piracicaba. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALA/BC) |
| Defense date: | 2008-12-05 |
| Examining board members: |
Marta Helena Fillet Spoto;
Severino Matias de Alencar;
Luiz Roberto Pimentel Trevizan
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| Advisor: | Marta Helena Fillet Spoto |
| Abstract | |
The strawberry used by the food industry has flavor and aroma very valued and appreciated when compared to the other fruits. However, it is a very delicate and highly perishable product, demanding, therefore, the use of appropriate techniques of harvesting and post-harvest. To keep quality and quantity of production, there is an increase of pesticides utilization in order to minimize damages caused by pests and field diseases on the field. However, the pesticides can leave persistent residues in the foods and their consumer fresh or industrialized may be impaired, putting the consumer health at risk. Thus, this work aimed to investigate the influence of the strawberries processing, as, minimally process, jam and pulp front of the waste of fungicide procymidone. In the field experiment, was applied the Sumilex 500 WP product according the treatments: A control (without application); B - a single application for 300 g c.p. 100 L-1 water (150 g a.i. 100 L-1 water) and C - 3 successive applications for 300 g c.p. 100 L-1 water (150 g a.i. 100 L-1 water), with intervals of 7 days between them. The sampling started in the previous day of the last treatment application B (- 1 day). Other sampling were carried through 0, 1, 3, 5, 10 and 15 days, and sampled fresh fruit, for further processing, such as minimally process, jam and pulp. The analysis method consisted in extraction with ethyl acetate, cleaning of the extract by gel permeation chromatography (GPC) and quantitative determination by gas chromatograph with specific detector of electron capture (GC/ECD). The analytical method presented recovery around 85,5% with errors of 7% and the quantification limits of 0,000076 mg.kg-1 and detection limits of 0,00023 mg.kg-1. The procymidone values found in strawberry did not exceed the maximum residues limits (3 mg.kg-1) fixed by brazilian legislation, in any periods of harvest. In the treatments that received application on the field (B and C) the procymidone levels decreased in the course of the study, as fresh strawberry as for process product of strawberry. The half-life values of degradation were of 7-8 days to the both treatments. There was no significant reduction in the residue levels found in strawberry fresh, pulp and minimally process. But, a considerable degradation of procymidone was observed in the cooking process, showing by low residues concentrations in the jam. Overall, the procymidone showed higher residues in fresh strawberry and lower on strawberry jam (final product). (AU) | |