Survey of pesticide residues in maize, cowpea and millet from northern Cameroon: Part I

Food Additives and Contaminants: Part B Surveillance

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 178-184

  Sonchieu, Jean ^a   Ngassoum, Martin Benoit ^a   Tchatchueng, Jean Bosco ^a   Srivastava, Ashutosh Kumar ^b   Srivastava, Laxman Prasad ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NGAOUNDERE   (Cameroon)

^b CSIR INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TOXICOLOGY RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Cereals and grain; Pesticide residues

Indexed keywords

CAMEROON; CARBOFURANS; CEREALS AND GRAIN; ENDOSULFANS; MAXIMUM RESIDUE LIMITS; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDES; ORGANOCHLORINES; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; PERMETHRIN; PESTICIDE RESIDUE; PIRIMIPHOS-METHYL; SMALL SCALE FARMERS; SYNTHETIC PYRETHROIDS;

CYCLOHEXANE; ESTERS; INSECT CONTROL; PESTICIDE EFFECTS; PHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS;

INSECTICIDES;

ZEA MAYS;

PESTICIDE; PESTICIDE RESIDUE;

CAMEROON; CHEMISTRY; FABACEAE; HUMAN; MAIZE; PANICUM;

CAMEROON; FABACEAE; HUMANS; PANICUM; PESTICIDE RESIDUES; PESTICIDES; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 77955752247     PISSN: 19393210     EISSN: 19393229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19393210.2010.503329     Document Type: Article

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