Articles - Green Reports

Abstract

Pesticides residues and food contamination by pesticides is considered one of the most threat which faces the food production. Extraction and detection of pesticides can be reduced the hazard of pesticides contamination. Many traditional methods were used to extract and detect of pesticides such as using of organic solvents in pesticides extraction and thin layer chromatograph. With the beginning of the nanotechnology era a new method to extract and detect pesticides was discovered. This method carried out by carbon-nanotubes as a solid phase. Carbon-nanotubes play the main role in this method as adsorbent material. Carbon-nanotubes have many advantages in extraction and detection of pesticides. These advantages are including using of solid phase extraction, high surface area, high stability, good thermal conductivity and high mechanical strength in tension. This review throws some light on the use of carbon-nanotubes in the extraction and detection of pesticides.