Biopesticides a new challenge in assuring food quality and sustainable agriculture

Abstract

The pesticides represent one of the most toxic compounds that affect the human health, these compounds having mutagenic and carcinogenic effects. One of the way by these compounds can get into the human body are the food. The use of biopesticides in the plants growth is part of the concept of "sustainable agriculture". Various biologically active compounds from plant sources have been shown to exhibit high efficacy, multiple mechanism ofaction, low toxicity to mammals, which has led to increased the interestin using them as biopesticides in a stabilized form and easy to handle.The aim of this paper is the studyof some vegetal extractswith potential repellent effect, from the spontaneous flora of Moldavia/Bucovinain combating the pests.