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Nanoplatelets/GO for the Identification of Carbonfuran in Food Items

Pesticides have played a remarkable role in the human health issues towards our life and security scenarios. Pesticides are gaining new attention to protecting our livestock and crops from pests, weeds, nematodes and insects. Preferably, the carbamates contained pesticides are utilized in gardening, agriculture, forestry and therapeutic pharmaceuticals, at simultaneous to minimal nonpersistence and bioaccumulation in the present environmental needs [ 1 ].   A specific and most toxic one is carbofuran (CF) also called as 2,3-dihydro-2,2-dimethyl-7-benzofuranyl N -methyl carbamate, a compound which belongs to the carbamate pesticides family [ 2 ]. Figure 1. Schematic representation of  Dy 2 Sn 2 O 7 /GO for the electrochemical detection of carbofuran (CF) in vegetable samples [ 3 ]. World Health Organisation (WHO) have insisted an alert about CF and their incorporated items can have possible damage to the biological properties of plants (in enzyme), soil as well as human parts ...