Pesticide Residues in Honey from Stingless Bee Melipona Subnitida (Meliponini, Apidae)

Sample number	Municipality	Collection site	Chlorpyrifos-methyl (mg/kg)	Monocrotophos (mg/kg)	Trichlorfon (mg/kg)
1	Alto do Rodrigues	Countryside	n.d.^a	0.055	n.d.
2	Barcelona	Countryside	n.d.	n.d.	n.d.
3	Galinhos	Countryside	n.d.	n.d.	n.d.
4	Governador Dix-Sept Rosado	Countryside	n.d.	0.072	n.d.
5	Jandaíra	Urban	n.d.	n.d.	n.d.
6	Jandaíra	Urban	n.d.	0.038	n.d.
7	Jandaíra	Countryside	n.d.	0.057	n.d.
8	Jandaíra	Countryside	n.d.	n.d.	n.d.
9	Jandaíra	Countryside	n.d.	0.015	n.d.
10	Jandaíra	Countryside	n.d.	0.021	n.d.
11	Jandaíra	Urban	< LOQ^b	0.049	< LOQ
12	Mossoró	Urban	n.d.	0.081	n.d.
13	Mossoró	Urban	n.d.	0.018	n.d.
14	Mossoró	Urban	n.d.	0.057	n.d.
15	Mossoró	Urban	n.d.	0.033	< LOQ
16	Mossoró	Urban	n.d.	n.d.	n.d.
17	Mossoró	Urban	n.d.	n.d.	n.d.
18	Mossoró	Urban	n.d.	0.062	< LOQ
19	Mossoró	Urban	n.d.	0.050	0.023
20	Pau dos Ferros	Countryside	n.d.	n.d.	n.d.
21	Riachuelo	Countryside	n.d.	0.037	n.d.
22	Riachuelo	Countryside	< LOQ	n.d.	n.d.
23	São Francisco do Oeste	Urban	n.d.	0.061	n.d.
24	São Francisco do Oeste	Urban	n.d.	0.052	n.d.
25	São Francisco do Oeste	Countryside	n.d.	0.074	n.d.
26	São Francisco do Oeste	Countryside	n.d.	0.011	n.d.
27	São Francisco do Oeste	Countryside	n.d.	n.d.	n.d.
28	São Paulo do Potengi	Countryside	n.d.	n.d.	n.d.
29	São Paulo do Potengi	Countryside	n.d.	n.d.	n.d.
30	Serra do Mel	Countryside	n.d.	0.043	0.074
31	Serra do Mel	Urban	n.d.	0.033	0.059
32	Serra do Mel	Countryside	n.d.	0.046	n.d.
33	Serra do Mel	Countryside	n.d.	0.056	n.d.
34	Serra do Mel	Countryside	n.d.	0.024	n.d.
35	Tibau	Countryside	n.d.	0.101	n.d.
	Median (mg/kg)		0	0.049	0
	Minimum (mg/kg)		0	0	0
	Maximum (mg/kg)		0.005	0.101	0.074
	MRL^c (mg/kg)		0.050	0.010	0.010
	Samples >MRL		0	24	2
	% samples >MRL		0	68.6	5.71

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jas-2020-0010 | Journal eISSN: 2299-4831 | Journal ISSN: 1643-4439

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Language: English

Page range: 29 - 36

Submitted on: Jan 27, 2019

Accepted on: Apr 29, 2020

Published on: Jul 2, 2020

Published by: Research Institute of Horticulture

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Publication frequency: 2 issues per year

Keywords:

honey,

LC-MS/MS,

Melipona subnitida,

multiresidue analysis,

Related subjects:

Zoology,

© 2020 Carolina de Gouveia M. D. E. Pinheiro, Fabiano Aurélio D. S. Oliveira, Silvia Catarina S. Oloris, Jean Berg A. da Silva, Benito Soto-Blanco, published by Research Institute of Horticulture
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Volume 64 (2020): Issue 1 (June 2020)

Pesticide Residues in Honey from Stingless Bee Melipona Subnitida (Meliponini, Apidae)

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Detected pesticide levels in 35 tested samples of honey from the stingless bee Melipona subnitida

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