Endosulfan, an organochlorine insecticide/acaricide
is used abundantly across north-west India. Of the many milk
products used daily in the Indian household, ghee and curd is
in-vogue throughout the sub-continent. Consumption of pasteurized
milk in Indian mass is also gaining momentum. The
numerous pharmacological studies till date reveal that the removal
of the molecule from the food chain is not viable; hence,
it is better to study the fate of the molecule during various
processing of milk. So the present study was conducted to
evaluate the fate of the molecule during processing of milk.
Study was conducted on 60 samples of raw buffalo milk
procured from different sources of Hisar district of Haryana.
Endosulfan @ 200 ppm, was spiked to milk samples, which
were processed to make ghee and curd and also pasteurized.
The gas–liquid chromatogram (GC-ECD) analysis revealed
that there was non-significant change in the endosulfan residue
level in ghee. Statistically significant (p