Vol. 27 No. 1 (2017)
Artículos de investigación

Monitoring of pesticides residues in northwestern Mexico rivers

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  • José Belisario Leyva Morales,
  • José Benigno Valdez Torres,
  • Pedro de Jesús Bastidas Bastidas,
  • Miguel Ángel Angulo Escalante,
  • Juan Ignacio Sarmiento Sánchez,
  • Alma Lorena Barraza Lobo,
  • Claudia Olmeda Rubio,
  • Cristóbal Chaidez Quiroz
José Belisario Leyva Morales Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología-Universidad Autónoma de Nayarit,

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José Benigno Valdez Torres Centro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo, A.C.
Pedro de Jesús Bastidas Bastidas Centro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo, A.C.
Miguel Ángel Angulo Escalante Centro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo, A.C.
Juan Ignacio Sarmiento Sánchez Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa

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Alma Lorena Barraza Lobo Centro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo, A.C.
Claudia Olmeda Rubio Centro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo, A.C.
Cristóbal Chaidez Quiroz Centro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo, A.C.

Published 2017-03-23

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Monitoring of pesticides residues in northwestern Mexico rivers. (2017). Acta Universitaria, 27(1), 45-54. https://doi.org/10.15174/au.2017.1203

Abstract

In Mexico, use of river water for households, agriculture and industry has adversely affected aquatic environment through chemical and microbial contamination. The aim of this study was to determine pesticide residues levels in water of rivers from central Sinaloa State, Northwestern Mexico. In samples obtained from July 2008 to June 2009 pesticides residues detected were lindane, heptachlor, endosulfan, dicloro difenil tricloroetano (DDT), diazinon, chlorpyrifos, permethrin, methyl parathion, cyromazine, ethion, carbofenothion, lambda cyhalotrine, pyrimicarb, malathion and aldrin. None exceeded water quality ecological criteria or those established by US Environmental Protection Agency. Comparatively low concentrations and frequencies suggest that pesticide contamination derived from runoffs toward river from contaminated soil particles and not from use of pesticides in intensive agriculture of region. 


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