Some aspects of pesticide contamination of medicinal plants

Abstract

Chemical agents (pesticides)are used extensively by modern intensive agriculture to protect agricultural plants from environmental hazards. Pesticide use serves sanitary and hygienic purposes to prevent dangerous disease transmission by infected blood-feeding athropods and to remove unwanted vegetation at production facilities. At the same time, the very use of pesticides might have a negative impact on the human body when residual doses get into cultivated and wild medicinal plant raw materials. The article deals with the problem of microcontamination of medicinal plants with pesticides. In particular, distribution routes for pesticides have been specified. Monitoring pesticide pollution problems both of the areas of medicinal plants collection and the raw materials have been raised. The monitoring problem complicated by pesticide storage in the environment has been noted.