Discussion. These rates are much higher than those seen in developed countries. It
should be noted that these findings were assessed on basis of using criteria (such as
MRL) obtained from developed countries. Our findings were also confined to these
vegetables sold in a few central provinces of Thailand and did not reflect for the whole
country as sample sizes were small. Risk assessment due to consuming these pesticide
contaminated vegetables, still remains to be evaluated. However, remarkably high
incidence rates of detected pesticides give warning to the Thai authorities to implement