Detection of Pesticide Residues in Agricultural Products
A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Agricultural Product Quality and Safety".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 February 2026 | Viewed by 23
Special Issue Editors
Interests: pesticide multiresidue analytical method development; residue monitoring & dietary/occupational risk assessment; pre-harvest residue limits & safe-spraying SOPs; occupational pesticide exposure studies (agricultural workers); xenobiotic biotransformation by metabolic enzymes & soil microbes; environmental fate & degradation pathways of pesticides/xenobiotics; molecular toxicology—docking, mode-of-action, metabolomics & proteomics; bioactive natural-product isolation & characterization; pesticide chemistry & toxicology
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Interests: pesticide degradation dynamics & predictive modeling; pesticide metabolic pathways & plant effects; environmental pesticide exposure & toxicological risk assessment; mechanisms of pesticide action (insecticidal/fungicidal/herbicidal); natural-product isolation & bioactivity screening; analytical-method development (LC-MS/MS, GC-MS/MS); omics-based mechanistic studies; pesticide chemistry & toxicology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The widespread use of agrochemicals has safeguarded global food supply, yet trace-level residues in agricultural commodities, soils, and irrigation waters remain a critical concern for regulators, producers, and consumers. This Special Issue of Agriculture on the “Detection of Pesticide Residues in Agricultural Products” seeks to serve as a forum for cutting-edge research that strengthens the analytical, technological, and policy foundations of residue monitoring across the entire farm-to-fork continuum. Building on more than a decade of progress—from early GC/LC-MS workflows to today’s high-resolution MS platforms, refined QuEChERS protocols, and UAV-driven residue mapping—this Special Issue aims to showcase innovations that enhance sensitivity, throughput, and ecological relevance. Suitable contributions will include those focused on (i) the development or validation of rapid multiresidue methods (e.g., LC-MS/MS, LC-QTOF, GC-MS/MS, or portable MS); (ii) the design of targeted high-sensitivity assays for difficult-to-analyze (“challenging”) pesticides, such as highly polar or thermolabile compounds; (iii) the characterization of residue dynamics, drift, and dissipation following conventional or drone spraying; (iv) the establishment/suggestion of the maximum residue level (MRL), pre-harvest interval (PHI), pre-harvest residue limits (PHRLs), or improved dietary risk assessment models; and (v) the integration of non-target screening, metabolomics, or machine learning for holistic exposure assessment. We particularly welcome interdisciplinary studies that link analytical advances with agronomic practices, regulatory frameworks, or toxicological and consumer risk perspectives, spanning crops, agricultural soils, irrigation waters, livestock feed, and edible insects.
Dr. Yongho Shin
Prof. Dr. Jiho Lee
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- pesticide analysis
- QuEChERS
- chromatography
- mass spectrometry
- matrix effect
- UAV spraying
- pesticide residue
- agricultural environment
- food safety monitoring
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