Abstract
Amitraz, is an acaricide used to control the infestions produced by the mite Varroa jacobsoni in the beehives. Usage of this acaricide can cause the presence of it’s residue in honey and aparian products, same as beeswax. In the last few years, Amitraz was used more frequently in Iran. With regard to increasingly public concern about health risk from pesticide residues in the diet, the analysis of amitraz residues in honey and beeswax has received special attention. Amitraz is a very labile pesticide whose degradation products contain the 2,4-dimethylaniline moiety. The method has been validated for the analysis of amitraz and DMA (one of the most abundant amitraz degradation compound) in honey is static headspace solvent microextraction Gas chromatography with Thermionic Specific Detector (GC/TSD). In this study, 70 samples honey and beeswax from different beehives (Eastern and Western Azarbayjan, Ardabil territory, Iran) , markets and store s helves of (Tehran, Iran) were collected during (2006-2007) and analysis for detection of amitraz and DMA residues. It could be concluded that according to EU standard (MRL = 200µg/kg) all the samples of honey could be declared as appropriate for human consumption.
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