How to Cite: Divyashree, J., Tomar, S., & Singh, A. P. (2022). Different types of pesticide residues in foodstuffs. International Journal of Health Sciences, 6(S1), 2845–2855. https://doi.org/10.53730/ijhs.v6nS1.5282 International Journal of Health Sciences ISSN 2550-6978 E-ISSN 2550-696X © 2022. Corresponding author: Divyashree. J; Email: divyaram.nr@gmail.com Manuscript submitted: 27 Jan 2022, Manuscript revised: 18 Feb 2022, Accepted for publication: 9 March 2022 2845 Different Types of Pesticide Residues in foodstuffs Divyashree. J Research Scholar, MUIT, Lucknow Email: divyaram.nr@gmail.com Dr. Sapna Tomar Associate professor, RBC Enginnering Technical campus, Agra Email: sapnatomar_rbs@rediffmail.com Dr. Akhand Pratap Singh Professor, Maharishi University of information technology, Lucknow Abstract---Pesticide have contributed greatly to increase of yield in agriculture by controlling pests. The staggering of agriculture that has has been achieved so far has been driven by pesticide. It has negative impacts for the whole ecosystem by entering food residues. Food products were found to have contaminated 51 percent with pesticide residues were higher than the MRL. The present research was carried out to measure the concentration and awareness of pesticide residues in food stuffs and to quantify the possible health hazards linked with pesticide residue. GC-ECD/NPD was used to estimate the pesticide residues. Analysis of four common organophosphate pesticides chloropyriphos, dimethoate, profenofos, quinalphos and phorate are widely applied on fruits and vegetables was carried out. Along with this residue levels of four pyrethroid and carbamate in fruits and vegetables samples were analysed. In order to analyze the residue levels in major foodstuffs in Kerala, samples of fruits and vegetables have been collected from markets located in Thiruvananthapuram and Kasargod. Keywords---Pesticide, chloropyriphos, dimethoate, profenofos, quinalphos, phorate, fruits, vegetables, residue. Introduction Pesticides have played a major role in increasing agricultural output by pest control. Pesticides are agent that may be used to eliminate undesired plant or animal species during the production, storage and distribution of food. Pesticide