Pesticides and Food Contamination

Pesticides are widely used in producing food to control pests such as insects, rodents, weeds, bacteria, mold and fungus. Pesticides-food contamination is a global food safety problem. The world used pesticides by 6 billion pound annually. The extensive use of pesticides causes of disturbance in natural balance. Due to the environmental balance disturbance, pesticides are playing an important role in plant pests suppression. The vegetables and fruits are exposed to many and many pesticides from different pesticides classes. These pesticides have side effects on plant, animals and human. The main problem now is how to grow plants without using of pesticides? Now it is impossible to prevent using of pesticides. But you can reduce these pesticides. Also, you can use alternative for these pesticides such as plant extracts, organic farming or biopesticidees. Also there are many ways to reduce the pesticides residues in vegetables and fruits such as washing of vegetables and fruits, draying, peeling and boiling. This work focused on pesticides-food contamination causes and solutions