Herbicide Residues in Flax and Hemp Fibres
topic
Herbicide residue screening in flax and hemp textile fibres targets triazine, urea, and chlorophenoxy herbicide classes used in bast fibre crop weed management, using LC-MS/MS multi-residue methods after pressurised liquid extraction from fibre specimens; retting process simulation experiments assess the degree of herbicide degradation during biological and water retting processing stages.
Role
Characterises herbicide residue concentrations in bast fibre raw materials from European and Asian production regions to validate compliance with organic textile certification requirements and to assess whether retting and fibre processing operations effectively reduce initial agricultural residue concentrations to acceptable levels in finished linen and hemp textiles.