University “Bijeljina” Bijeljina, Faculty of Agriculture, Pavlovića put bb, 76300 Bijeljina, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bojana Špirović Trifunović
University of Belgrade, Faculty of Agriculture, Nemanjina 6, 11080 Zemun, Serbia
Aleksandra Petrović
University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Agriculture, Trg Dositeja Obradovića 8, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia
Svetlana Tasić
University Union Nikola Tesla, Faculty of Management, Njegoševa 1a, 21205 Sremski Karlovci, Serbia
Nikola Puvača
University Business Academy, Faculty of Economics and Engineering Management, Department of Engineering Management in Biotechnology, Cvećarska 2, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia
Simonida Đurić
University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Agriculture, Trg Dositeja Obradovića 8, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia
Gorica Vuković
University of Belgrade, Faculty of Agriculture, Nemanjina 6, 11080 Zemun, Serbia
Bojan Konstantinović
University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Agriculture, Trg Dositeja Obradovića 8, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia
Dušan Marinković
University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Agriculture, Trg Dositeja Obradovića 8, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia
Vojislava Bursić
University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Agriculture, Trg Dositeja Obradovića 8, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia
Quality of milk plays a key role in its wide consumption but also of its involvement in a large series of derived products, such as yogurt, cheese, butter, and ice cream. An effective LC-MS/MS method has been validated for the determination of 81 different pesticide residues in milk samples. The analyses comprised 44 milk samples collected during 2019. From all inspected pesticides, only metalaxyl (present in 11.36% samples), bifenthrin and metolachlor (9.09%), dimethoate (4.55%), prochloraz and thiacloprid were detected in 2.27% of analysed samples. The detections of trifloxystrobin and bifenthrin were above the maximum residue levels (MRLs). The Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/1135 standardizes the MRLs for dimethoate and omethoate in certain products, but a MRL for dimethoate residues in milk has not been established jet. All the other pesticide detections were below the MRLs.
