EFFICIENT CHROMATOGRAPHIC APPROACH FOR THE ANALYSIS OF INSECTICIDES AND ECO-TOXICOLOGICAL ASPECTS

Abstract

In today's rapid growing industries and technology, the frequent use of various insecticide in agriculture sector can be commonly encountered. Insecticides such as carbamate, organochlorine and pyrethroids helps protecting the crop from various insects, which ultimately leads to the better yield of agricultural products. But the main concern that comes out in such frequent practice is the adverse effects to the adjacent ecosystems. Especially, the very commonly used carbofuran, DDT, Cypermethrin and its adverse effects can be put forwarded as a potential example in this article. Apart from this, the scope of this article covers the mechanism of toxicity by insecticides to nontargeted organisms in the ecosystem, the recent developments in the analytical techniques considering HPLC and GC, the method of extraction and quantication of active component in sample. A comparison between GC and HPLC is done and the preferred instrumentation is concluded while considering the analysis of Insecticide. Scope of this review also covers the symptoms and treatment of insecticide poisoning.