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The widespread use of organochlorine pesticides for plant protectionor animal hygiene has given notable positive results. However as a result of the high stability of some of them, residues of these substances are foundworlidwide and often in the food chain. The organochlorine residuespredimonately accumulate in the lipid fractions, by which animal fattyfoods have become a major route of exposure for humans. Pesticideresidues in foods are being manitored to ensure that public health is notendagered by voilative residue concentrations. The present study wasperformed to determine the concentrations of some organochlorines (aldrin,dieldrin, endrin, lindane D.D.T) in different canned meat productsOne hundered samples of canned meat (25 samples each of importedcanned beef, imported canned luncheon, local canned beef, local beefluncheon) were collected from different Cairo and Giza markets. Thecollected samples were identified and immediately transferred to thelaboratory to be subjected to quantitative detection of the organochlorinepesticides; aldrin, dieldrin, endrin, lindane and D.D.T. Samples wereanalyzed using T.L.C technique.In samples of imported canned beef; the muumum, maximum,average and the percent of samples exceeding the permissible limits wereas follow: aldrin (0.1, 0.25, 0.0428 and12 %), dieldrin (0.1,0.25,0.0352
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