CRESCEN

T
CONVEN
T
SCHOOL
DILDAR
NAGAR
GHAZIPUR

CERTIFICATE
This is to certify that OM SHANKAR
PANDAY has worked Under my
guidance and
Project entitled.

STUDY THE PRESENCE OF INSECTICIDES

AND
PESTICIDES IN FRUITS AND
VEGETABLES.

Teacher inchargehead of the institute.

ACKOWLEGEMENT
I place my sincere thanks to my chemistry teacher
Mr.
for her guidance and
advices to complete my work successfully .I Also
thank our principal Mr.
.
For providing me all the facilities to finish
theProject on time.
Also take this apportunity to placeOn record my
deep
gratitude
to
her
encouragementAnd
contestant help durig the entire phase of
epperiment.
Last but not least I thank my
parents for their encouragement and support in
my humble venture.

Students name-OM
Class-XII

SHANKAR PANDAY

LIST OF CONTENTS

1 .INTRODUCTION
2 .AIM
3 .MATERIALS REQUIRED
4 .PRECEDURE
5 .OBSERVATIONS
6 .CONCLUSION
7 .BIBLIOGRAPHY

INTRORUCTION
In the past decade there had been a tremendous
increase in the yields of various crops to meet the
demand of overgrowing population,achieved by using
pesticides and insecticides. These chemicals that are
sprayed over crop to protect it from pests . for
example,DDT,BHC
,ZINC,posphide,mercuric,chloride,dinitrophenol,etc.all
pesticides are proven to be effective against variety
of insects , weeds and fungi and are respectively
called insec ticides . herbicides and fungicies . most
of the pesticides are non-biodegredr adable and
remain penetrated as such into plant, fruits and
vegitable. From plants they transfer to animals, bird
and hman beings who eat these pollute d fruits and
vegitables . inside the body they get accumulated
and cause se rious health problems. Thesdays
preference is given to biodegradable inse cticides like
malathion . the presence of insecticides residues in
even raw
sample of wheat , fish ,meat, butter, etc.
have aroused the concern of agricu ltural
administratiors, scientists and health officials all over
the world to put a cheak over the use of insecticides
and to search for non isecticidal means of pest

EXPERIMENT

Aim
To study the presence of insecticides or pesticides in
various fruits and vegitables.

Materials required
Mortar and pestle , beakers ,funnel , glass rod , filter
paper china disk , water bath , tripod stand , fusion
tube , knife, test tube.sample of various fruits and
vegetables , alcohal , sodium metal , ferricchloride ,
ferrous sulphate crystals , distilled water and dil ,
slfuric acid.

Procedure
Take different types of fruits and vegetables and cut
them into small pieces sparately. Transfer the cut
pieces of Various fruits and vegetables into it
separaely and crush them . take different kinds for
each kind of fruits and vegetables and place the
crushed fruits and vegetables in these beakers and
add 100ml of alcohal to each of these . stir well and

collect the filtrate in separate china dishes ,

evaporate the alcohol by heating the china dishes
one by one a water bath and let the reidue dry in the
over . heat a small piece of sodium in a fusion tube ,
till it melts . then add one of the above residues from
the china dish to this fusion tube and heat it till red
hot drop the hot fusion tube in a china dish
containing about 10 ml of distilled water . break the
tbe and boil the contents of the china dish for abot 5
min . cool and filter the solution . collect the filtrate.
To the filtrate add 1 ml of freshly prepared ferrous
sulphate solution and warm the contents then add 23 drops of ferric chloride solution and acidifiy with
dilute HCL. If blue or green ppt or colourration is
obtained it indicates the presence of nitrogen
containing insecticides . repeat the test of nitrogen
for residues obtained from other fruits and
vegetables and record the observation

CONCLUSION
In conclsion , pesticide residues were found in all the
mon
itored fruits and vegetables sample from all
the selected markets from kumasi metropolis . in all ,
37.5% of fruits vegetables sample analyzed
cantained no vegetables level of the monitored
pesticides , 19.0% of the sample gave result with
levels of pesticide residues above the MRL , while
43.5% of the samples showed results below the
MRL . the above results suggest that the consumers
of the kumasi metropolitan city are exposed to
concertration of pesticides that may cause chronic
diseases . on the basis of the above findings , the
results recommend the need for continues survey
and monitoring programs for pesticides in all food
commodities in order to protect the end user for the
indiscriminate exposure of pesticides . a future study
in a longer period of time would allow obtaining a
deeper knowledge about the fulfillment of
vegetables poduced in Ghana with respect to the use
of pesticides and their presence in these fruits and
vegetable

OBSERVATION

s.no
Name of the fruit or
presence of insecticides
vegetable
residues

test for the presence

of nitrogen

or pesticide
(positive or negative)

1
yes

2
3

Apple

positive

Grapes

positive

yes 4
Brinijal
yes

positive

BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. Moderns abc of practical chemistry XII
2. Comperhensive practical chemistry -XII
3. NCERT chemistry
-XII

PRESENCE OF
INSECTICIDES
AND
PESTICIDES IN
FRUITS AND
VEGETABLE

Figure 1