60 samples of dried apple cubes, flakes and powder imported from april 1975 to may 1975 were analyzed for organochlorine and organophoshorus pesticides. All values lay well below the maximum limits for pesticide residues allowed in the Fed. Rep. of Germany. The level of total DDT in apple powder was significantly higher than in cubes and flakes.
131 samples of poppy seed imported in 1977, 1978, and 1979 were analyzed for organochlorine pesticides. The average and maximum residue levels were 0.05 and 0.42 ppm for BHC-isomers without lindane, 0.07 and 0.40 ppm for lindane, 0.016 and 0.14 ppm for total DDDT (DDT, DDD, and DDE). Other pesticides could not be detected. The residue level was much higher in the first half year of our examination. Poppy seed from Eastern Europe and Turkey showed appreciably higher contamination than imports from Western European countries.
Dried apples (dice 298 samples, powder 35 samples) imported from Italy 1976 to 1982 were analyzed for organochlorine pesticides. All values lay well below the legal limits of the German Federal Republic. DDT residues in apple powder were higher than in apple dice, but DDT values decreased significantly during the time of examination.
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