The investigation aimed to study the contamination of locally marketed spices in Tripoli (caraway, cumin, cinnamon, mixed spices, black pepper, and red pepper) during (2014). Sixty samples of various kinds of spices were extracted and determined for residues of organophosphorus (malathion, methylparathion, parathion, carbo-phenothiate and ethion) and organochlorine pesticides (aldrin, BHC, heptachlore, lindane, DDT, endrin, heptachlor epoxide and dieldrin). | Pesticide residues in some types of spices collated from Libyan market
