RASFF (Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed) is an international system, that provides the rapid information exchange between European Union countries towards risks about food and feed topics, takes the required precautions and thus aims to maintain the food and feed safety. The weekly reports sent by member countries, are presented on web site and the member countries are informed in case of a risk when the product is introduced in the market. The current work includes the notifications originated from our country that took place in rapid alert system reports between years 2009-2016. The data obtained from the system, were classified according to product and hazard groups and the product-hazard relations were evaluated for each year by taking the notification types into consideration. According to the assessments, the main problem about European Union exports of our country is the high aflatoxin level of the products. This problem is mainly observed in fruits-vegetables, nuts and seeds. Pesticide residues and pathogenic microorganisms are the other important hazard groups which cause problems for exports of our country. The results obtained from the current work are critically important for determination of the basic problems met in food export of our country and to capture attention to precautions which should be taken against those problems.

In recent years, environmental pollution, climate change and excessive use of natural resources have caused problems in the ecosystem. Honey bees are among the most affected by this environmental pollution. Climate change and environmental pollutants cause irregularities in colony development, the formation of weak colonies, the spread of diseases, the inability to return to the hive of field bees, and their mortality and low productivity. Turkey ranks second after China in the production of honey in the world. Honey is a strategic product for Turkey. This study investigated the effect of some environmental pollutants on honey yield in Turkey. This study used the time series analysis covers the years 1990-2017. In the research, honey yield as dependent variable, as independent variables; methane (CH4), carbon dioxide (CO2), diazot oxide (N2O) release, pesticide, insecticide, fungicide, herbicide use and industrial production index were used. After the stationary of the series was tested with ADF Unit Root test, the relationship between the variables was examined by Johansen Co-integration analysis. The effect of environmental pollutants on honey yield was tested by the FMOLS analysis method. According to the FMOLS results, the increase of 1% pesticide use, CH4, CO2, and N2O resulted in a decrease in honey yield of 0.36%, 0.70%, 0.74%, and 0.37% respectively. On the other hand, the increase of 1% insecticide, fungicide, herbicide use and industrial production index caused 0.15%, 0.14%, 0.09% and 0.84% increase in honey yield, respectively.

Bu çalışmanın amacı, 2016 yılında Adıyaman ilindeki badem üreticilerinin zirai mücadele uygulamalarında karşılaştığı sorunları belirlemektir. Bu amaçla, basit tesadüfi örnekleme yöntemine göre Kahta, Besni, Gölbaşı ve Merkez ilçelerinde, her ilçede tesadüfi olarak seçilen 6 köy olmak üzere toplam 24 köyde, 96 üreticiden anket yöntemi ile bilgiler temin edilmiş ve sonuçlar yüzde oran olarak değerlendirilmiştir. Badem üreticilerinin, eğitim seviyesinin yüksek, pek çoğunun tarım dışı gelire sahip olduğu ve gelir miktarının açlık sınırı seviyesinin üzerinde olduğu saptanmıştır. Badem üreticileri pestisit seçimi ve pestisit dozunu belirlemede ilaç bayilerinden ve Tarım İl Müdürlüğünden tavsiye almakta, marka ve etkili maddenin pestisit seçiminde önemli faktörler olduğu, aynı hastalık ve zararlıya karşı sürekli aynı pestisiti kullanmadıkları, hastalık ve zararlıyı görmeden ilaçlama yaptıkları, ilaçlamada önerilen dozu uyguladıkları, kullandıkları pestisitlerin üründe kalıntı bıraktığı, ilaçlama ile hasat arasındaki bekleme süresine dikkat ettikleri, ilaçlama sırasında koruyucu elbise ve maske kullandıkları, boş pestisit kutularını tarla veya yol kenarına atmadıkları, ilaçlama aletini temizledikleri, ancak ilaçlama aletini kalibrasyon yapmadan kullandıkları, pestisitleri karışım halinde uyguladıkları, kimyasal mücadele dışında kültürel mücadeleyi tercih ettikleri ve biyopestisit kavramını bilmedikleri belirlenmiştir.

Apiculture is one of the agricultural activities carried out widely in our country and in the world. Our society attaches great importance to beekeeping and honey products, especially honey, so bee colony health is very important in the continuity of bee products. There are many factors that can be shown to cause colony loss in bees and one of them is poisoning caused by pesticides. Causes such as improper dosing of pesticides, day-to-day spraying, or potentiation or effect differentiation due to random mixing of drugs may cause collective bee deaths. In this study, 188 dead bee samples (each sample contains approximately 100 g dead bees) from different bee farms, which were collected from beekeepers and brought to Adana Veterinary Control Institute with the suspicion of pesticide poisoning due to intensive deaths, were examined. Qualitative examination was performed by gas chromatography (GC) device. In the examination of dead bee samples, tau-fluvalinate residue was found in 2 samples in 2015 and cypermethrin residue was found in 1 sample in 2016. In 2017 and 2018, no detectable substance was detected in terms of pyrethroid pesticides. In 188 samples which we examined in terms of pyrethroit group pesticides, 1 substance was found to be toxic for bees. This shows, at the samples examined, that pyrethroid pesticides are not involved in bee colony losses in Çukurova.

Cucurbita pepo spp. pepo has a unique ability to phytoextract Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) such as p,p’-DDE from the contaminated soil to plant compartments. Although the uptake mechanism of the POPs by the plants still remains unknown, p,p’-DDE has been accumulated in the plants grown in the contaminated fields, posing the environmental and human health risks. In this study, p,p’-DDE accumulation was investigated in the plants grown in contaminated soils amended with of 0%(control), 0.1%, 1%, and 10% of biochar produced from activated sludge under greenhouse conditions. The p,p’-DDE concentrations in soil and plant samples were measured by an Agilent 7890A GC with μ-ECD detector. The p,p’-DDE concentrations in roots and shoots of the plants were decreased 94% and 87% compared to the control set, respectively by 10 % biochar amendments which are significantly different from the other sets. On the other hand, p,p’-DDE concentrations in roots were not affected by biochar amendments and measured between 7 ng/g to 8 ng/g for the all sets. Biochar from activated sludge will help sustainable usage of the sludge as soil amendments to the contaminated fields, highlighting the importance of some future studies on the products from waste materials.

Ekonomik bir dayandırma yöntemi olan kurutma; yaş ürünlerdeki serbest suyu uzaklaştırarak ürünlerde meydana gelebilecek biyokimyasal reaksiyonların yavaşlatılmasıdır. Dünya’da bandırılmış (potasalı) ve bandırılmamış (naturel) olmak üzere başlıca iki tip çekirdeksiz kuru üzüm üretilmektedir. Bu çalışmada 2015 yılında Alaşehir (Manisa) bölgesinde sultaniye üzümü yetiştirilen 6 farklı bağdan hasat döneminde yaş üzümler toplanmıştır. Bu üzümlerin bir kısmı potasalı ve naturel olarak kurutulmuştur. Hem yaş üzümlerde hem de iki farklı şekilde kurutulan kuru üzümlerde pestisit analizleri gerçekleştirilmiştir. Analizler sonucunda her bağda en az 8 adet pestisit etken maddesi tespit edilmiştir. Bu bağlardan iki tanesinin yaş üzümünde, üç tanesinin de kuru üzümünde MRL (Maximum Residue Limit, Maksimum kalıntı miktarı) değerlerini aşmış en az bir adet pestisit etken maddesi bulunmaktadır. Pestisit etken maddelerinin tamamına yakını üzümler kurutulduğu zaman konsantrasyonlarında artış göstermiştir. Ayrıca potasalı kurutulan kuru üzümlerde natural kurutulan kuru üzümlere kıyasla daha yüksek konsantrasyonlarda pestisitler tespit edilmiştir.