TRANSLOCATION OF ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE RESIDUES FROM SOILS INTO CARROTS

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Abstract
Soils from the Fraser Valley in British Columbia and carrots grown in these soils were analyzed by gas and thin layer chromatography for DDT, DDD, DDE, aldrin, dieldrin, heptachlor, heptachlor epoxide, and lindane. Higher concentrations of these compounds were found in muck soils than in sandy soil. The quantities translocated into carrots varied from non-detectable to less than 0.05 ppm, with lindane > cyclodienes > DDT and metabolites. Carrots grown in sand picked up pesticide residues more readily than did those grown in muck soils.

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