Screening for unconventional pesticides in tropical fruits and vegetables from Hainan, China
Yijun Zhang, Li Xu, Chaozheng Wang, Xiaowei Liu, Wenguang Jiao, Yiwei Chen · 2026
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Yijun Zhang and colleagues screen tropical produce from Hainan, China, for pesticides that routine monitoring misses, in this 2026 PLOS ONE food safety study. Hainan grows much of China's tropical fruit and vegetables, yet many chemicals used there sit outside the official residue watch list, leaving blind spots.
The team tested two hundred sixteen samples from across the island for one hundred seventeen off-list pesticides using sensitive mass spectrometry. Traces turned up in about one sample in ten, and most positive samples carried chemicals missing from routine monitoring, some without any legal residue limit. The authors argue the watch list itself needs widening if regulators want a true picture of what reaches the table.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Yijun Zhang, Li Xu, Chaozheng Wang, Xiaowei Liu, Wenguang Jiao, Yiwei Chen |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 40336 |
| LICENSE | CC_BY |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | PLOS |