| Contamination of water by pesticides is one of the main environmental problems. Among the agricultural crops, potatoes stand out, as they employ a large quantity of pesticides throughout their production. This article aims to present a case study on the potato processing activity, discussing the environmental licensing process of the activity and the analysis of the impacts caused by the release of effluents into the environment. The effluent was collected in a sedimentation tank of an English-type potato processing industry, sent to the Pesticide Residue Analysis Laboratory for the detection of the possible pesticides present, being analyzed by High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) and characterized physicochemically through temperature,... |
