Evaluación de toxicidad en agua del proceso de lavado de banano orgánico y convencional utilizando como bioindicador el caenorhabditis elegans

Abstract

El Oro is one of the main banana Provinces in Ecuador, boosting economic growth in this area, the study area of this research is the cantons of Machala and Santa Rosa, where banana producers and exporters are located important in the province, where pesticides for use prohibited and restricted by the National Environmental Agencies of the country are used until now, causing environmental pollution that harms human health and causes the death of various aquatic animals, by the discharge of residual water to bodies of fresh water and sea canals without any treatment, which contains traces of pesticides as a result of the process of washing the fruit, for this reason, the objective of this investigation is to evaluate the toxicity of the water of the banana washing process by means of the identification of organochlorine pesticides and also a toxicological bioassay using as an experimental model the Caenorhabditis elegans nematode within which the mortality of this bioindicator. For this study 2 samples of water from the banana washing process belonging to a sample of the conventional banana plan