The Necessity of Monitoring Pesticide Residues in Vegetables and Fruits Using Hazard Index among Consumers

Nowadays pesticide residues in agricultural prod-ucts have become an important challenge and a serious threat to human food security and health. Reduction of pesticides residues should be taken into consideration by public health authorities because of environmental and health problems. The harmful effects of pesticides in humans have included cancer, congenital anomalies, heart dis-ease, Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease . However the use of pesticides in the world has been rising ever since, for example, from 1960 to 2000 its consumption has been growing around 20 times, and from 2002 to 2007 has been increased 0.7 billion tons .