What Are Pesticides?

According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), a pesticide is any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pest. Pesticides keep crops and other vegetation free of pests that can impact human health and reduce crop yields. However, many pesticides can pose environmental and health problems when they enter the environment.

The EPA also includes herbicides under the definition of pesticides, and many of the regulatory requirements covering pesticide manufacturing, storage, use, and disposal also apply to herbicides. To provide our customers with the most relevant information and testing services, we created a solution page specific to herbicides.

What Impact Do Pesticides Have on The Environment?

Agricultural pesticide utilization is widespread throughout much of the world. The excessive use of these chemicals and their persistence in the environment have generated serious, lasting environmental contamination of soil, water, and, to a lesser extent, air. This contamination has had a negative impact on ecosystems and the food chain.

What Are the Dangers Of Pesticides To Human Health

Pesticides can cause both short-term and long-term adverse health effects. Short-term effects include stinging eyes, rashes, blisters, nausea, dizziness, and diarrhoea. Long-term effects include cancers, birth defects, reproductive harm, immunotoxicity, neurological and developmental toxicity, and disruption of the endocrine system. The severity of the health risk depends on the toxicity and amount of exposure to the pesticide.

What Will A Pesticide Test Show?

There are many reasons to test for pesticides in soil, water, or consumer and commercial products. Testing can determine if the land is safe for building or growing crops or if remediation is necessary.

Pesticide Regulation

The EPA is responsible for regulating pesticides in the United States to protect human health and the environment. The EPA Office of Pesticide Programs handles most of the regulatory issues pertaining to pesticides. The EPA also enforces pesticide regulations and supports state and regional EPA programs to protect and certify pesticide applicators.

Pesticide Residue Testing Laboratory in India

Pesticide residue refers to the small amounts of pesticides that can remain on or in agricultural products after they have been treated with these chemical substances. Pesticide residue analysis is done to determine the pesticide residue levels in food products through the process of Extraction & Instrumental Quantification. Pesticides are potentially toxic to humans and can have both acute and chronic health effects, depending on the quantity and ways in which a person is exposed.

WHY CHOOSE N.S. ENVIROTECH LABORATORY FOR PESTICIDES TESTING SERVICES

N.S. ENVIROTECH LABORATORY offers NABL accredited Testing Laboratory & Testing Services with many national and international accreditations including NABL utilizing Sophisticated & Highly sensitive Instruments like LC-MS/MS, GC-MS/MS for the Identification & Quantification of Multiple Pesticides Residues (above six hundred Numbers) in a single run that can identify even the trace levels of these pesticide residues, as required by various Regulatory guidelines.

We have specific technical expertise, knowledge and infrastructure to cater the various regulatory requirements and has a large library of pesticide standards to identify trace level of these pesticides in all types of products. Nation our laboratory in Jaipur Rajasthan specifically focused on residual analysis for pesticides, antibodies and their metabolites. Laboratories have a continuous record of excellent performance in proficiency testing at globally validated methods at micro level residual analysis from various national and international laboratories performance which provides the confidence to us and to our clients on our test methods and results.

To ensure your products meet the regulatory standards, our expert technicians test for pesticides in the following food categories:

Over 30,000 food, beverage, ingredient, dietary supplement, and cosmetic companies across the global supply chain rely on us as their trusted partner for integrated food safety, quality, and sustainability services.

Making it easier to keep the food supply chain safe and transparent

Our comprehensive pesticide residue testing services help ensure that your products meet the highest safety standards, enhancing marketability and building trust with consumers in the highly regulated food industry.

Setting The NS Envirotech Laboratory For Environmental Pesticide Testing

Pace® offers comprehensive environmental pesticide testing services to help our customers evaluate the potential impact of pesticides on water, groundwater, soil, biota, and certain types of waste. With a team of experienced professionals and a network of state-of-the-art testing laboratories, N.S. Envirotech Laboratory provides defensible results for regulatory compliance and in support of sustainable business practices across a wide range of industries that include:

• Environmental Consultants
• Environmental Engineers
• Municipalities
• Wastewater Industry
• Landfills
• Pesticide and Other Agricultural Chemical Manufacturing