Pesticide on the fly by Near IR

Do you want to know if vegetables you eat have pesticides?

Figure 1. Organic tomatoes produced in home vegetable garden.

Now, with a sophisticated device we can determine pesticide on the fly, on soil, leaves, etc. This device take the Near Infrarred Spectrum (NIR) of materials; with this we can quantify the pollutants compounds.

At the moment, we are evaluating the absorption or retention of Carbamate (Mancozeb®) on soil, used it for planting tomatoes.

Figure 2. Soil IR Spectrum. Different concentration of Carbamate applied.

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