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Report of the sub-committee on the environment and health.

Table 4.16
Pesticides and degradation products in rainwater samples from Zealand. The table shows the figures from table 4.15 for the deposition of pesticides, calculated as g per hectare (Felding 1998a). The analysis covers 36 active ingredients and 8 metabolites.
Extracted

Isoproturona

Metamitron

DNOCb

Mechlorpropc

Methabenzthiazuron

2-hydroxyter- buthylazineM

TerbuthylazineM

2,4-Dc
Sept. 96 0.007 n.d. 0.63 0.005 n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d.
Oct. 96

0.050

0.005

1.13

0.058

n.d.

n.d.

n.d.

n.d.
Oct. 96

0.053

0.038

0.68

0.069

n.d.

n.d.

n.d.

n.d.
Nov. 96

0.018

0.040

0.94

0.074

n.d.

n.d.

n.d.

n.d.
Nov. 96

n.d.

n.d.

0.66

0.026

0.011

n.d.

n.d.

n.d.
April 97

n.d.

n.d.

0.64

0.012

0.006

0.075

n.d.

n.d.
May 97

n.d.

n.d.

0.27

0.013

n.d.

0.086

0.007

n.d.
June 97

n.d.

n.d.

0.36

0.007

n.d.

n.d.

0.006

n.d.
Aug. 97

n.d.

0.014

0.92

  

n.d.

n.d.

n.d.

n.d.
Sept. 97

n.d.

n.d.

0.08

0.001

n.d.

n.d.

n.d.

0.009
Sept. 97

0.072

0.037

0.55

0.029

n.d.

0.006

0.003

0.025
Oct. 97

n.d.

n.d.

0.45

0.017

n.d.

n.d.

n.d.

0.013
Oct. 97

0.116

n.d.

0.19

0.030

n.d.

n.d.

n.d.

n.d.
Total 0.32 0.13 7,5 0.34 0.017 0.17 0.016 0.048
Sum of the detections of the pesticide chemicals analysed for         8.5 g/ha

n.d. = not detected; a = ban recommended in 1998
b = banned; c = banned with dispensation in 1997
M = metabolite (of atrazine).

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