ABSTRACT
Endosulfan, which has been found in residue monitoring (Osafo and Frimpong, 1998; Ntow, 2001, 2005) and food crops studies (Amoah et al., 2006), is one of the commonly used chlorinated pesticides on vegetables in Ghana (Ntow et al., 2006). At Akumadan (1o 57’ W, 7o 24’ N), a prominent vegetable-farming community in Ghana (Ntow, 2001), the pesticide is one of the predominant active ingredients used for controlling leaf miners, bollworm, fruit fly, etc., on tomato and has the potential of environmental contamination because of much overuse, abuse, and misuse of the pesticide (Ntow et al., 2006). One aspect of the range of studies needed to assess the environmental impact of a pesticide is environmental fate studies, and understanding the persistence and dissipation of the pesticide is an important step forward.
