Besides using specialized instruments and equipment, pesticide residue testing can also be conducted through third-party testing, which generates corresponding reports to determine pesticide residue standards. So where can pesticide residue test reports be obtained? Details are as follows:
Where can I get a pesticide residue test report?
Pesticide residue test reports can generally be obtained from the testing and inspection laboratories of the local county and city agricultural and rural affairs bureaus and the agricultural product quality and safety supervision and management stations in various townships.
What information should you look for in a pesticide residue test report?
1. Detection time
First, consider the testing time. With today's pesticide residue testing technology, results can be obtained in just over ten minutes, so the test results must be the most up-to-date.
2. Detection range
Understand the types of agricultural products tested in the report to see if they cover the agricultural products you are interested in. Typically, the testing scope covers major edible agricultural products such as vegetables , aquatic products , meat, and poultry eggs.
3. Testing Items
For example, testing for pesticides such as hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH), DDT, phorate, methamidophos, parathion, phoxim, malathion, fenthion, dimethoate, dichlorvos , acephate, and dimethoate.
4. Detection Method
Understand the testing methods and techniques used in the report, and whether these methods are reliable and accurate.
5. Testing Standards
For example, GB23200.34-2016 National Food Safety Standard for the Determination of Residues of 65 Pesticides, including Aldisulfiram, Pyraclostrobin, and Azoxystrobin, in Food - Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry/Mass Spectrometry; GB23200.93-2016 National Food Safety Standard for the Determination of Residues of Organophosphorus Pesticides in Food - Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry, etc.
6. Test Results
Based on the test report, it can be determined whether agricultural products are safe to eat. Pesticide residue test results are usually expressed as inhibition rates; the magnitude of the inhibition rate indicates whether pesticide residues in agricultural products exceed the permitted levels.
