Spectrophotometric Interaction of Carbofuran on Food Grains

  • Vijay Kumar et al.

Abstract

Carbofuran is a broad spectrum insecticide and is used for foliar treatment of vegetable, fruit and field
crops, cotton, commercial ornamentals, and in and around poultry houses and dairies. Though it
facilitates in farming and medicinal point of view, it have hazardous effects by its over uses.
Currently we have focused our study on its interaction with food grains (maize, black pulse, pea,
gram, wheat and soybean) by the UV- spectrophotometric technique. Here we have studied the
recovery, formulation, and residual analysis by using UV- spectrophotometric technique. It has
observed that carbofuran absorbed by food grains, as recovery range lies between 84% to 98% with
regression coefficient 0.93 to 0.97 and higher residual ranges were obtained at higher concentration
and least at low concentration (3 to 27%) with regression coefficient 0.95 to 0.98.

Published
2019-12-24
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