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Multiresidue pesticide analysis of the medicinal plant Origanum syriacum

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Pages 274-279 | Received 05 Apr 2006, Accepted 01 Sep 2006, Published online: 13 Feb 2007
 

Abstract

Origanum syriacum is a medicinal plant widely used in Jordan both as a folk remedy and in the food and beverage industry. As the plant can be treated with pesticides during commercial production, three different methods for pesticide multiresidue analysis of this plant have been evaluated. One method based on soxhlet extraction followed by acetonitrile/petroleum ether (PE) partitioning was found to be particularly suitable. Extracts were cleaned-up using a Florisil column. Mean recoveries of pesticides from spiked herbal samples were 74–119%, with coefficients of variation between 1.0 and 23.6%. The limits of detection were in the range 0.0008–0.5 mg kg−1. The method was used for the determination of pesticide residues in O. syriacum samples purchased from the local market. Seven out of eight samples contained detectable levels of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT), folpet, dicofol, hexachlorobenzene (HCB), hecachlorocyclohexane (HCH), quintozene, transchlordane and vinclozolin.

Acknowledgements

The authors express their gratitude to the staff members at the Pesticide Residue Laboratory in Al-Hussein Agricultural Station, Ministry of Agriculture, especially to Mr B. Sokker; and the staff in the Industrial Chemistry Center, at the Royal Scientific Society, especially to Mr H. Esteitieh.

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