Modern trends in the use of pesticides and methods for their determination in agricultural products

Many active substances of pesticides are dangerous toxicants that can disrupt the stability of natural and agricultural ecosystems and cause irreversible harm to human health when ingested. In addition, from several units to several dozens of new active substances of pesticides and products based on them are developed annually. This determines the critical need to control their use and content in environmental objects, especially in agricultural products. The development of modern chemical analytical methods helps to increase the effectiveness of such control. Improving the methods of extracting pesticides from extremely complex matrices of soils and agricultural products can significantly speed up and reduce the cost of conducting a single analysis, and improving analytical equipment allows to determine the picogram contents of target pesticides or conduct monitoring studies of samples to identify pollutants.