Decline pattern and dietary risk assessment of spinetoram in grapes under Egyptian field conditions

Spinetoram is one of the most extensively used insecticides globally and is a new spinosyn-based insecticide registered for direct treatment of Egyptian grapes. This work established and validated a developed method for determining spinetoram in grape berries and leaves using the QuEChERS coupled LC–MS/MS technique. The average recoveries ranged between 98.52–101.19% and 100.53–104.93%, with RSDs of 2.74–6.21% and 2.79–7.26% for grape berries and leaves, respectively. Spinetoram residues degraded in grape berries and leaves through a first-order kinetic, with an estimated half-life (t 1/2 ) of 4.3 and 2.8 days in grape berries and leaves, respectively, and significant degradation (91.4–97.5%, respectively) after 14 days. Besides, the terminal residues of spinetoram detected in grape berries and leaves samples ranged between 0.017–0.077 mg‧kg −1 and 0.79–0.023 mg·kg −1 , respectively, when applied two to three times at a single recommended rate, while it was varied between 0.026–0.44mg‧kg −1 and 0.79–0.023mg‧kg −1 when applied two to three times at a double recommended rate, respectively. A dietary risk assessment was conducted using scientific data from field trials, acceptable daily intake (ADI), and food consumption. It was determined that no noteworthy health hazards were connected to eating grape berries and leaves that had been treated with spinetoram since the risk quotients (RQs) were ≤ 0.4.