Imagine the Following Scenario in Your Country: Sunshine Island
{"Image DocumentName": "Imagine the Following Scenario in Your Country: Sunshine Island", "Image ImageDescription": "Sunshine Island grows a variety of tropical fruits and vegetables. Exports are growing, which benefits the local economy. But, sometimes shipments are rejected by the importer because of pesticide residues - it has become a costly problem. Sunshine Island has not monitored pesticide residues in the past. You must set up a laboratory to analyze your food to meet Codex Pesticide MRLs. This is the situation faced by many countries in the developing world today. Food trade has increased enormously in recent decades. Many developing countries are looking for world wide markets for their food products. However, they may not have the laboratory facilities to test their exports and imports for pesticide and drug residues. It is becoming important for these countries to set up laboratories to run these analyses. We will use the example of Sunshine Island to illustrate some of the questions that must be answered in the process of setting up a new pesticide residue lab. There are many references given that will lead interested people to resources that can help them choose methods and validate them in their own labs. Of course, Agilent can provide the hardware and a lot of experience to help these labs get started.", "Image XResolution": "37", "Image YResolution": "37", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "SlidePlayer", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}