PROBLEMS AND ASPECTS OF PRESENT-DAY RESIDUE ANALYSIS

• Main Authors: H. Frehse, Bayer Ag, Biologische Forschung
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Arctic
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.568.1532; http://old.iupac.org/publications/pac/1975/pdf/4201x0017.pdf

A general review is given of the analytical, statistical, toxicological and 'philo-sophical ' role of pesticide residue analysis within the evaluation of food and environmental problems. The presentation is intended as an updating of the situation which was prevalent and described 3 years ago, as well as an outlook on future trends and developments. It has been amply defined what residues are11 ' d; 2 but no one has yet defined what the tasks of residue analysis are. For residue analysis now deals also with air, eggshells and arctic snow. The definition of residues introduced for foods can, of course, be applied on principle to all substrates of the environ-ment. But nevertheless I should like to make a distinction between 'residue analysis ' and 'environmental analysis', if only for the reason that workers engaged in environmental analysis usually prefer to speak of contaminants (cf. ref. 3) or pollutants (cf. ref. 51) rather than residues. You are all familiar with diagrams of the kind presented in Figure 1.1 regard the tasks of residue analysis